Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breast Implants: Why You Shouldn't Keep Them 20 Years!

2 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD (speaker) advises against keeping breast implants for 20 years, using a patient anecdote about a person with the same implants for 20 years. He compares implants to an old car to illustrate that medical devices are not lifetime items, notes that implant package inserts do not claim lifetime durability, and asserts that all implants will eventually fail.

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So I just came over before your podcast. Somebody who I'm explaining tomorrow, has implants that are 20 years old. The same implant. So I always say to them, I go, do you drive a car that's 20 years old? Right. No. Right. But you'll have a device in you that's 20 years old. So just thinking about it, that doesn't make a lot of sense. So every device has a package insert, and none of them are lifetime devices. They all will fail eventually.