Surgeon Robert Whitfield has performed thousands of microsurgeries with a 95% success rate. His focus is making these techniques available to cancer patients for tissue reconstruction. Nine years of training taught him to respect all implant types and the infections that can follow.
And that was always, although the operation seems, you know, really complex and maybe hard to wrap your head around, I did that operation thousands of times. I did microsurgery thousands and thousands and thousands of times to be, you know, above a 95% success rate at it all the time. And that's why, and that was my whole like, like, mission vision in the beginning was to bring that operation to cancer patients so they had a better opportunity for a tissue reconstruction for themselves. Because I always had this very, very healthy respect for any kind of implant— hip implant, knee implant, breast implant, dental implant, neurologic implant, cardiac implant— because during 9 years of training, how many times do you think I got called to help with some of those problems, because every surgeon who puts those in knows they can get infected.
