Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breast Implants: Decades Later, Safety & Shocking Rupture Rates! #shorts

28 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Robert Whitfield MD. This content was uploaded by Robert Whitfield MD. This is a YouTube short titled "Breast Implants: Decades Later, Safety & Shocking Rupture Rates! #shorts" (created 2026-01-28) featuring a speaker discussing breast implant safety and longevity. The speaker explains implants are not lifetime devices, mentions rupture rates rising roughly 0.5% per year, references capsular contracture and long-term examples (including removing implants from the 1960s in a 90-year-old), and notes the first implant placement around 1962 in Houston.

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So the safety as a device, you know these things are going. They're not lifetime. Yeah. Let's just make that clear. They have a shelf life. Yeah. I always looked at cancer patients and cosmetic patients and said hey at your age, barring any other things going on we're going to discuss the longevity of this device and look at it because the rupture rate goes up half percent per year annually after that and and the reason being is like you, you don't like just put it in and forget it. And that's a lot of patients come to me with that. Yeah 15, 20 years. Yeah 40. I took out a pair of implants from the 60s in a 90 year old recently. Was she having health challenges? They had bad caps for contracture and she just lived that way for decades because that technology was inferior, you know I mean you're talking about the 60s. That's amazing. I had no idea that people were getting breast implants way back 1962 the first implant placed in Houston, Texas by doctor.