Robert Whitfield MD describes converting failed breast implants to DIEP flaps, which use the patient's own tissue from the abdomen. The method eliminates implant-related problems like infection and fibrosis while avoiding rejection since it's the patient's own tissue.
So what I used to do in, in the kind of reverse engineered world is I would get a patient who had a painful breast reconstruction or maybe they had gotten infection, maybe they had got radiation therapy, and over time the tissues had become fibrotic or thickened or firm, or basically they were extruding an implant because the tissue can just fail over time over the implant. So I would convert all those people into that diep free flap that I could, and if they had any reactivity to the implant or, you know, an infection or anything, all that would go away. Because you're using your own tissue room, but just it's like, so it's your genetic material, it can't be rejected.
