Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breast Implant Removal: A Guide to Skin Management

8 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD explains surgical considerations for skin management after breast implant removal. Key points in this excerpt: small pre-implant breast sizes (A–B) typically revert toward baseline after explant; larger implants can overstretch skin, requiring selective skin excision to tighten the breast envelope; surgeons must avoid over-excision because healing varies; wide breasts may need narrowing to prevent a flat, boxy appearance after implant removal. The clip is a short, clinical advisory segment from a YouTube video.

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For a cosmetic patient, it really depends on how they started. If they started, you know, as an A or B cup breast, then they're typically going to revert back. Obviously, if the implant was large, that's more of a problem because it stretches out skin. So then you're, you're dealing with trying to manage skin. And there's different, you know, options. You have not so much to reshape the breast tissue, but to help with the skin. So you may excise skin to help tighten it, but, but not overdo it, because everybody will heal differently, of course. And, you know, so there's, there's ways to vary it. Today I just saw somebody who has a relatively wide breast, so that needs to be narrowed. Otherwise, when you take out their implant, they'll be flat and boxy.