Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Are Implants Hiding Cancer Risks? Discover the Shocking Truth!

20 Dec 2024 · 0 min

Watch on YouTube

0:11

Transcript excerpt from a YouTube video conversation (Robert Whitfield MD and another speaker) discussing retained implant capsules and biofilm. The speakers suggest that retained capsules with biofilm can continue to cause symptoms even if no cancer is present, and recommend removing the capsule during explant. The excerpt focuses on symptomatic persistence and clinical recommendation regarding capsule removal.

So let me ask you this. If the person did not have the cancer and you left it in, would it be okay? Or are there other things that it's seeping out into your body with?
So if there's retained capsule, like somebody didn't remove it.
Right.
And they had biofilm, they'll still be symptomatic because the body will still be fighting what they think is a virus or whatever in the system. Yeah, it's there. That biofilm still there now it's retained just like a package. It's just sitting there.
So in my opinion, I feel like if you're gonna go through the explant situation, you might. This seems to be to remove the capsule.
Yeah. The funny thing is there's a lot of pushback. Right. Oh, it's dangerous. Right. You'll hear this a lot. I've done 1500 plus and I have a less than 1% pneumothorax rate, which is entering the chest, and a less than 1% hematomerate. It's, you know, relatively speaking, it's a very, very low risk procedure in the hands of somebody who's experienced. But I.