Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Understanding Breast Implant Illness: Inflammation and Recovery

18 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD describes breast implant illness as a chronic inflammatory process in which the implant may play an uncertain role. He states that scientific literature and tissue examinations after explant typically show chronic inflammation around implants, and that patients often experience clinical symptom improvement after explantation.

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So I look at breast implant illness, as you just said, a chronic inflammatory process of which implant is playing a role. And you don't know how much or how little of a role that implant is playing. But just if you follow the scientific literature and you look at, you know, basically what's found after explant, there's always typically chronic inflammation found in the tissues around it. And then from a symptom inventory standpoint, our patients clinically do better.