Robert Whitfield MD discusses how social media and image filters worsen body-image pressures, leading some patients to seek cosmetic changes. He explains decision factors between fat transfer (not feasible for very thin patients) and implants, and warns about implant-related risks including infection, earlier or additional surgeries, and potential chronic inflammatory complications.
They're getting worse. Yeah, yeah. Social media has not helped this. Filters have not helped this. The scrutiny has not helped this. So they get into this like, I gotta have this change. How can I make this change? I'm skinny, you know, I don't, I've heard about a fat transfer, but I can't have one because the doctor, I don't have any fat. I'm too small. Okay, so that puts you in more of the implant situation. But you, you know, okay, so that becomes a choice based on a number of factors and informed decision making process. And you should know that implants can get infected. You should know that potentially you can have problems down the road, need other surgery earlier, later, whatever. And it could become a chronic inflammatory situation like I deal with, with the patients we're talking about.
