Robert Whitfield MD explains that scar capsules around implants don't fully protect the body from ruptures. Implants have two shell layers visible on ultrasound as railroad tracks. In his intraoperative video, one side had both layers ruptured while the other had an intact outer shell but broken inner shell, showing tissues interact directly with device contents.
So they were not leaking outside the capsule. But I want everybody listening to this to listen extremely careful to what I say next. The capsule is not impervious. It is not a nuclear bomb shelter. Your tissues will interact with the device within your scar capsule, because think of something that's woven versus something that's solid. It's not solid. So I open everything. I make a video for every patient after I get done so they can see exactly what everything looks like in real time. So I open this thing up and of course, course, it's ruptured. Both layers are ruptured. Because a shell has two layers, it looks like a railroad track on ultrasound. So both layers are ruptured and completely devoid. On one side, just. Just a bag of jelly of which I took out. Perfectly intact, by the way. And then on the other side, it has a. Outer shell intact, but the inner is obviously ruptured. You can feel it. You can move it. You can. You can almost see it on the video. It's a little bit hard. But I don't want anybody to think they're protected from the device because their body makes a scar capsule. That is false. Amen. Yes.
