When was Robert Whitfield MD president of the Education Research Foundation for the Aesthetic Society?

Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Is BII [Breast Implant Illness] a Diagnosable Medical Condition?

26 Jul 2023 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:47

Robert Whitfield MD (speaker/uploader) discusses whether breast implant illness (BII) is a diagnosable medical condition, noting it has been difficult to characterize. He discloses that while president of the Education Research Foundation for the Aesthetic Society in 2019–20 he funded studies examining psychological aspects, basic science, and a randomized prospective trial investigating surgical findings including heavy metals and biofilm. He states his own view that BII is (essentially) inflammation.

Questions this video answers

2019–20

Chapters

Is breast implant illness a recognized medical condition? Well, if you've been following along, you know that it's been hard to characterize breast implant illness. In 2019-20, when I was president of the Education Research foundation for the Aesthetic Society, we funded studies looking at psychological aspects of breast implant illness, looking at basic science aspects of it, and then finally a randomized prospective trial about surgery identification of heavy metals, biofilm. So we've been adding and trying to characterize breast implant illness. And in full disclosure, I think of it as just inflammation. And the amount of inflammation is.