Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breast Explant & Microvascular Reconstruction: Expert Insights

29 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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Robert Whitfield MD describes leveraging long experience with cancer patients and implant-related complications (radiation effects, capsular contracture, multiple surgeries) to perform explantation followed by microvascular (autologous) reconstruction. He emphasizes that using the patient’s own tissue reliably relieves symptoms caused by implants and prior treatments.

I had so many years of experience just with cancer patients and dealing with different implant based problems from radiation therapy and capture contracture and multiple surgeries. It wasn't a big stretch for me to explant somebody into a microvascular reconstruction if they were having symptoms and know that those symptoms were going to go away because it was their own tissue that was being transplanted.