A brief YouTube #shorts excerpt of Robert Whitfield MD describing his surgical experience and low incidence of postoperative complications—particularly hematoma and infection—after he stopped using drains in his high-volume practice. He explains that scarring is expected due to revision or lift incisions but may be reduced after explantation because removing implants lowers tissue tension and pressure.
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I haven't had a hematoma, which is the next thing that I would actually be more concerned about, which is bleeding. And I haven't had one of those in, you know, several years actually. So all those things should be low and you know, a skin infection, super low. I don't drain people anymore. I haven't had an infection due to drains and over a couple of years, obviously. And I've had one person get an infection when I haven't used drain in an explant only case and had one other infection. So that's super low as well, given how many I do and how high volume practice I have. So it's always bleeding, infection, scarring. All right, so you know scarring gonna happen because you're reopening an old scar or you're revising the lift scar or you're making a lift scar. So scarring is part of your, you know, genetics. But typically when you're taking things out, there's less scarring after because there's less pressure, because the implant's gone. So there's weight, there's less expansion of tissue. Tension is one thing that really promotes scarring. All right.
