Short YouTube interview clip featuring Robert Whitfield MD. The speakers discuss genetic reasons why some women experience problems with breast implants and note Dr. Whitfield's extensive experience performing explant surgeries (he states he has removed implants about 1,500 times). The clip frames Dr. Whitfield's oncologic training as relevant to his explant work.
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About 1,500 times.
We've also genetically identified why. It's very clear why some women have a problem and some don't, or some are worse than others. So admirable what you're doing. You know, the world needs more people thinking that way, so. Thank you.
Thank you.
So now you use the word explant. Just in case anyone doesn't understand, you've literally 1500 times removed implants from women.
Yeah. With the scar tissue around the implant, which is. Which is, to me, not controversial, but it's been made controversial to do that both by the. I guess the process. It's. It's unusual to me because my background is oncology, and I had extremely talented mentors in surgery, and they trained me how to do reconstructive surgery with people who weren't, you know, able to survive the defects if we didn't take care of them that were created by removing their tumors or whatever. So working around, you know, blood vessels and nerves and other, you know, vital organs or the lungs or anything in the neck or brain, it didn't. Nothing bothered me because I was taught and trained extremely well to take care of that. So when I transitioned in 2016 to doing more breast explant surgery, I just used my oncologic training, and it wasn't a difficult transition for me.
