Dr. Robert Whitfield warns against using this paper to change treatment without talking to your doctor. He describes a difficult explant surgery and explains why more surgery doesn't reliably fix capsular contracture. Current evidence can't prove the body rejects implants, he says, and more research is needed.
No one should start or stop anything based on this. They have to have that discussion with the provider. And I'll just say today I operated on somebody who had, had had multiple operations and it was, you know, a little bit more difficult than normal for me. And that's saying something because I've done several thousand of these explant cases. And so more surgery It's not necessarily gonna solve a problem with a capsular contracture, and it might be quite the opposite actually. For patients, the overall message is we don't have enough information to say that your body's rejecting this. It is interesting that the response is so varied. So it demands certainly more investigation. And the, I mean, the future is exciting in this.
