Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Chronic Inflammation: What You Need to Know

22 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short conversational excerpt from the YouTube video 'Chronic Inflammation: What You Need to Know' (Robert Whitfield MD) discussing chronic inflammation tied to persistent foreign material (implants). Whitfield suggests that chronic inflammation from implants may persist for decades and that implants typically require maintenance or replacement multiple times across a patient's life. He notes he advises discussions about implant longevity beginning around eight years after implantation, drawing on experience with cancer patients (who face higher complication rates due to chemotherapy/radiation) and applying similar counseling to cosmetic patients.

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Around eight years after the initial procedure.

At least two to three times in a lifetime (speaker's estimate).

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He knew there was a problem with inflammation for a while, and we were trying to figure it out. And once. Once this all clicked, I think it was like, for both of us, an aha moment.
I like them very, like, black and white. I started thinking, okay, if you're gonna have chronic inflammation because of something that's in your system that your body doesn't want, and you're gonna keep going 10, 20, 30 years down the line, that's not gonna get better. And also tell me this is wrong. I imagine if you're somebody that has these, you have to do maintenance on them every, you know, 15, 20, 30. I don't know how often you have to do it, but if you're a young woman, call it 25. Like, you're probably going to have to get these redone, what, at least two to three times in your lifetime, or is that not accurate? Yeah, I would say I was trained in a manner that's very different. I had discussions with my clients from cancer and cosmetic realms about implants starting at eight years after their initial procedure, because the experience with cancer is very. You know, there are a lot more issues with cancer patients because they get chemotherapy, obviously, many of them get radiation therapy. They'll have capture contractures. They'll have pain. They may have a device rupture. A device will fail. So you're just operating on them at a higher rate. And then. So that always was like, I better have these same discussions with the cosmetic patients so that they're aware. And that's just because it was a cosmetic case. Didn't de emphasize how important having an implant is, because it's a big deal to have an implant.