Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Biofilm: The Hidden Cause of Implant Infections

23 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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Short excerpt of a talk by Robert Whitfield MD asserting that biofilm is present on about 35% of implants and treating biofilm as an infection that typically resolves after removing the infected device. He lists multiple device types (hip, knee, breast, dental) and emphasizes removal leads to improvement irrespective of individual genetics.

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.