Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Tailoring Your Explant Journey: Personalized Strategies for Low Inflammation

1 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Robert Whitfield (MD) explains a personalized approach to breast implant explantation, emphasizing that procedural decisions (e.g., doing explant alone versus delaying a lift or fat transfer) depend on each patient’s inflammation level and individualized data. He lists multiple diagnostic inputs—genetic testing, toxicity tests, inflammatory tests, blood tests, hormone panels, food sensitivities, and stool testing—to form a recovery plan and says patients should consult his Austin clinic or a trusted plastic surgeon for tailored guidance and clear expectations.

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Genetic testing; toxicity tests; inflammatory tests; blood tests; hormone testing; food sensitivity testing; stool testing.

Perform the explant alone and delay a lift or fat transfer until inflammation is reduced.

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If, for whatever reason we felt your inflammation was too high, then we would have obviously adapted your procedure, maybe just did the explant alone, working towards getting your inflammation down so that if you chose to have a lift later or if you chose to have fat transfer later, you could do that. It's really. I base these decisions on each patient's individual case with as much data as possible from their genetic testing, toxicity tests and inflammatory tests, blood test, hormones, food sensitivities and and stool testing to really help give them an overall picture of what their recovery looks like. So it's unique to them. If you're, you know, interested in that, then you gotta obviously come visit us in Austin. And if not, you really gotta look carefully at your plastic surgeon who's going to help you with this and get your options laid out and have a really clear expectation of what that looks like for you and your explant journey.