How Bacteria in Your Body Can Influence Your Breast Implants

Hey, everyone, it's Dr. Whitfield. I wanted to go over our recently published paper, clinical Evaluation of Microbial Communities and Associated Biofilms with Breast Augmentation Failure. I'm the lead author. Then we also have Craig Tipton, Nicole Diaz, Jacob Enkira and Dr. Kyle Landridge. So here is the paper. And I get asked frequently why do I think breast implant illness and explant surgery pose such a significant health concern to women? And this is why we evaluated through PCR testing. So everybody remembers from the pandemic, the antigen test versus the PCR test. Now as we move through the results into the discussion, the results show, as I really have discussed in the past, in this series of samples of over 600, there's about a 29% rate of finding this bacterial contaminant. And then when I discuss with patients all the time, I keep it very simple. And the results obviously will vary over time with the number of samples that we collect.