Robert Whitfield MD addresses whether cosmetic implants like breast implants carry different risks than medical ones like metal plates. Your body forms scar tissue around any foreign object, but necessity doesn't change the basic biology of how implants interact with your body.
Let me ask real quick, because I do want to ask, because I think about, like, yes, I understand. There's, there's, there's vanity implants. There's, there's just aesthetic implants for breast cancer patients and people like that. But then there's also different kinds of implants, like metal and plates and things like that are, do these carry the same kinds of risks? Because, of course, any little piece that gets in the body, the body will form some scar tissue around it. So is it having the same action, reaction, or are there some things implanted in the body that are much less concerning because some of them are quite necessary?
