Robert Whitfield MD explains why no implant is completely safe: your body recognizes foreign material and mounts an immune response. Except for autologous or genetically identical tissue, you need immunosuppression to prevent rejection. Your body forms fibrotic tissue around prostheses.
There's no safe implant.
It doesn't matter what type of implant manufacturer you're discussing. Anytime you're putting a foreign body in anybody, it's no different than the, you know, knee prosthetic manufacturers. I mean, there's nothing that's perfectly inert that's not going to react to your body. And some people really react more so than others. That's our individuality. Right. And we talked about tolerance. And so, you know, your ability to tolerate that placement of that device is what ultimately will lead you to me or not lead you to me.
Yeah. So there's no safe implant. It's impossible.
Thought that's been made thus far.
Yeah. I mean, even if, like you were saying earlier, even if you got a kidney, unless.
It'S your genetically identical twin, that kidney is going to require a level of immunosuppressant. Think of like a steroid, like prednisone, and that's the way you can keep it.
So even if it's from nature, say it was a natural material, say it was, your.
Body would recognize it for it and reject it.
There is no natural, safe, inert.
There's only autologous, which is your own tissue. Everything else, unless it's your genetically identical twin, has to have a level of immunosuppression for you to be able to keep it. If it's a prosthesis, they're going to form. Your body's going to form a collagen bag around it to try to get it out.
