A short YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD describing his practice of recording short intraoperative or post-procedure videos and still photos of breast implant removal. He explains that he makes videos at the conclusion of procedures to document capsule removal and implant examination, and highlights saline deflation as a useful technique to give a visual preview of postoperative breast appearance.
I make everybody a little video of their surgery. After I have the implants out, I get asked to do videos intraoperatively of this surgery, but that's really hard to do. I used to wear, like, a helmet cam, and it really was hard on my neck, and it's really hard to get good pictures. So whenever I can, you know, get something, I get it. But definitely at the conclusion of each procedure, we go back, we make a short video about removal of the capsules and what we found, and examine the implants. We always have still photos, of course, so those are all maintained in the chart. But the point of the discussion is deflation can be a very useful technique to help give a visual preview. The actual breast, it hasn't obviously recovered completely, because that's not enough elapsed time, but it can be very helpful. So.
