Robert Whitfield MD explains how to approach explant surgery with personalized data. He uses genetic testing, inflammatory markers, and blood work to decide whether to do fat transfer at the same time or stage procedures separately, depending on each patient's individual health profile.
We want everything to really go as smoothly as possible, efficiently as possible, so that the ways we've tried to optimize your diet and lifestyle pre op and then adjust things for you in the or give you the best possible one time simultaneous treatment. If I could do that for you with fat transfer, that sets you up for, you know, success. If for whatever reason we felt your inflammation was too high, then we would have obviously adjusted, adapted your procedure, maybe just did the explant alone, working towards getting your inflammation down so that if you chose to have a lift later, or if you chose to have fat transfer later, you could do that. It's really, I base these decisions on each patient's individual case with as much data as possible from their genetic testing, toxicity tests and inflammatory tests, blood tests, hormones, food sensitivities and stool testing to really help give them an overall picture of what their recovery looks like. So it's unique to them. If you're, you know, interested in that, then you gotta obviously come visit us in Austin. And if not, you really gotta look carefully at your plastic surgeon who's gonna help you with this and get your options laid out and have a really clear expectation of what that looks like for you and your explant journey.
