Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Calcified Capsules after Explant Surgery

31 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Robert Whitfield narrates a short operative video of removing very old saline breast implants that show heavy calcium deposition and capsular contracture. He identifies the implants as Mentor Smooth 300, 25 cc saline devices, describes the calcium 'eggshell'–like deposits and crunchy texture, and notes he takes biopsies to send for bacterial and fungal DNA testing to check for biofilm.

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Mentor Smooth 300, 25 cc (saline) devices.

Bacterial and fungal DNA analysis.

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Hey, it's Dr. Whitfield. We're taking out some very old implants today. And these got a lot of calcium on them and they're contracted. You can see on both sides there's a lot of white and calcium. This is my biopsy. I take to send off to look for bacterial and fungal DNA, do that on both of them and here it is on this side. So we're just going to further open this up. We're going to hear some crunching. These are really old saline so let's just see if we can peel it out here. I don't want to cut it. So you can see the almost calcium deposition like little eggshell in here. You can hear it kind of crunch around. These are Mentor Smooth 300 25cc devices. So there's just a lot of calcium deposition in this. Doesn't really have a slimy feel or anything so I don't think that has any any biofilm just more calcium deposition but we'll see on the DNA reports I get back.