What proportion of implants have biofilm according to the speaker?

Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Biofilm: The Hidden Cause of Implant Infections

18 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Robert Whitfield MD arguing that biofilm is effectively an infection associated with implants; he states ~35% prevalence and asserts that removing the device leads to improvement across implant types (hip, knee, breast, dental).

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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.