What proportion does the speaker say have biofilm?

Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Biofilm: The Hidden Cause of Implant Infections

15 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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Robert Whitfield MD (speaker) asserts that biofilm is an infection affecting implanted devices and is common—he states about 35% have biofilm. He frames biofilm-driven inflammation as device-agnostic (hip, knee, breast, dental implants) and says removal of the infected device leads to clinical improvement. The clip presents a clinical viewpoint equating biofilm with a treatable infection.

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35%

35% have biofilm. So I'll just say for everybody in the audience, so biofilm to me is an infection. I will always just say in those, regardless of their genetics, you take it out, they get better. Whether or not you know that that person is going to be uniquely susceptible to increasing amounts of inflammation, regardless of the device. Hip implant, knee implant, breast implant, dental implant. Yes.