Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Surgeon Reveals What Happens to Implant Scar Tissue! (Shocking) #shorts

9 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this short educational segment, the surgeon addresses common questions about implant scar tissue, describing it as fibrous, white tissue that forms around devices. Using props, he demonstrates how the scar tissue appears and explains the surgical approach of performing a complete capsulectomy—removing the capsule in one piece whenever possible—rather than leaving any capsule behind. He emphasizes that leaving the capsule can result in a crumpled, paper‑like mass, underscoring the importance of thorough removal for patient outcomes.

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Why does that even happen? What does that mean to the patients? What does that mean to the surgeons who are taking care of the patients? So the way I like to explain it, we're going to do a little demo. We brought props today. So everybody's scar tissue, if we think about it, it normally is fibrous and for illustration purposes, it's going to be basically white like this. And then when we take that out, we take it out as a whole to the best of our ability. If we can't take it out as a whole intact, we take it out as a complete capsulectomy. What we don't do is leave capsule behind because I don't want to take something out here. We're going to just take out the device. We're going to leave this together. So if you just were to take this out and leave the tissue in place, a lot of times it looks like a little wadded up, crumpled up piece of paper like this.