A short YouTube interview (host + Dr. Robert Whitfield MD) discussing breast implants, their potential harms, and Dr. Whitfield’s experience performing placements and many removals. The conversation frames a 'wake-up call' that changed Dr. Whitfield’s view and signals the video will cover symptoms, risks, and reasons patients seek explantation.
Today we're going to talk about something that I think you need to know about because either you may have breast implants or people in your life do. And it's not really clear to understand why you're having some strange symptom and how it could possibly be connected to your breasts. So what I thought I'd do is I'd find a top expert in the country on breast implants and that we'd have a real serious conversation about it. So Dr. Rob Whitfield is, is here on the show and he's done a lot of breast implants. You've put them in.
Yes.
And you've taken probably more out than you've put in by far.
Yes.
So most people who put breast implants into women will sort of tell you on swear on penalty of death, breast implants are harmless. But at some point you must had a wake up call to figure out that this wasn't working. What was your wake up call? Right.
My background is mostly and an oncology reconstruction. So my intent through training both in surgery, plastic surgery and microsurgery was to provide patients with procedures that would salvage and protect them through a cancer journey. And so predominantly breast cancer is a very prevalent cancer. So we were involved with cancer reconstruction. And one of the tools you utilize in cancer reconstruction is a breast implant, obviously. Right. It's if you're doing a sarcoma reconstruction and they remove part of your tibia, you use a tibial implant. So whether it's a knee, a hip, a breast, a dental implant, a neural spinal implant, a defibrillator, I've helped every single provider take care of their implant problems. So there's not an implant that's devoid of a problem because it's a foreign body. And when you put it into somebody, your body immediately reacts to that and creates a capsule around a scar because it doesn't want that in your body. So everybody has an immunologic response to it.
