Dr. Robert Whitfield, a board-certified plastic surgeon, explains how bacterial contamination on breast implants may cause illness. Recent 2020 research shows a direct link between bacteria and the symptoms patients report after implant surgery.
Doctor Whitfield, board certified plastic surgeon in Austin, Texas. And I perform explant surgery. And so I'll lay out the problem. Breast implant illness is getting better and better understood. In 2020, four papers were published to show the correlation between bacterial contamination and the production of a substance called oxylipin tenho. This helps us better understand the symptoms because this substance is found in concentrations in patients with symptoms like brain fog and anxiety and muscle pain and joint pain. So there's now a cause and effect relationship.
