A short spoken-word video by Robert Whitfield MD discussing his experiences treating breast implant complications, his shift to solo practice focusing on correcting implant-related problems from oncologic and cosmetic cases, and his personal stance refusing to give his wife breast implants due to aesthetic preferences and concerns about foreign bodies and long-term device failure.
And she was an early. Probably an early advocate for breast implant. And she didn't call it that. Yeah. Because this was 2016. She was. And, you know, people who do well, don't, like, wander back to see you. So she just kind of went about her way. And all of a sudden I just had people, like, come and call in. Not tons of initially, but because I would do it this way. And what's becoming the vernacular en bloc, which is. It's not a term that's frequently going to be used, but that's what's posted on these message boards, and they identify surgeons. And then I started having people come. And as I left my group practice, went into solo practice, this became more and more the theme. I still did oncologic reconstruction. I would take care of breast implant problems, meaning that if you had a capsular contracture, if you had. If you had a poorly positioned breast reconstruction or a cosmetic one that had been revised multiple times because of all my experience using techniques for cancer patients, I would correct those. But just so that everybody listening understands those all will ultimately fail. Wow. It doesn't really matter how good I am. You can spend all day, pat yourself on the back, because eventually that device will, over its lifetime, there will be a problem with it. My wife came and asked me for breast implants, and I was like, no, first of all, it's not my aesthetic. I don't think big boobs are the thing. But second of all, if you can't avoid foreign bodies of any nature, then I don't feel like that's a bad thing for your biome.
