Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Tailoring Your Explant Journey: Personalized Strategies for Low Inflammation

28 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD about tailoring explant surgery based on individual inflammatory status. Dr. Whitfield explains that if a patient has high inflammation he may alter the surgical plan (e.g., perform explant alone and delay lift or fat transfer) and that he uses multiple data sources — genetic testing, toxicity and inflammatory tests, blood tests, hormone panels, food-sensitivity testing, and stool testing — to personalize recovery planning. He invites interested patients to visit his Austin clinic and advises others to work closely with their plastic surgeon and set clear expectations.

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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 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.