Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Correcting Unhappy Breast Implant Results: Dr. Whitfield's Approach

7 May 2018 · 1 min

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A short monologue by Dr. Whitfield (YouTube) describing his clinical approach to patients unhappy with breast implants. He emphasizes listening to patients, assessing symptoms, and offering surgery after medical options are exhausted. On examination he frequently finds infection (bacterial-positive ulcers), capsular contracture, extensive scarring that entraps pectoral muscles, limited range of motion, nerve pain, and shoulder dysfunction; surgical removal/revision yields high patient satisfaction.

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I just try to listen and understand what is going on, what are their symptoms and what can I offer them? And to that end, I've had a lot of success treating these patients. I think they're patients with really high satisfaction after surgery when they've kind of exhausted all their medical options. They kind of look at the implant as a foreign body and trying to get it removed. I found these to have, on closer examination after the fact, ulcers that were positive for bacteria. So they really had an infection. I found them to have capsular contractures, significant amounts of scarring, entrapping the two pec muscles, making the range of motion limited, give them nerve pain, shoulder dysfunction.