Excerpt from a YouTube video (speaker: Robert Whitfield MD) describing how joining a Facebook group focused on breast implant illness and explant surgery led to a sudden influx of patient inquiries for explant procedures at his reconstructive surgery practice, primarily from cosmetic patients rather than cancer patients.
This all went away. But then she put me on a Facebook group that does discusses breast implant illness and explant surgery. And then all of a sudden, I just had people start calling my office to have explant surgery, which I was a breast reconstruction surgeon and did microvascular breast reconstruction, head and neck reconstruction, sarcoma reconstruction. So my office was like, why are people calling about that? Right, right. Because it was cosmetic patients basically calling to have an explant, not a cancer pat.
