Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

What Your PCR Test Reveals About Breast Implants

8 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD discusses using PCR tests to detect bacteria, fungi, and mycobacteria inside breast implant pockets and the immune-system implications of organisms adhered to scar tissue. He reports recently submitting a paper with roughly 700 of his cases and states he now has several thousand PCR-tested samples. The short excerpt includes an audience question about implant materials.

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Almost 700 cases (he says "I think it's almost 700 of my cases").

Several thousand PCR-tested samples (he states "I have several thousand now of PCR tested samples").

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And so we recently submitted a paper for a publication of, I think it's almost 700 of my cases. I have several thousand now of PCR tested samples. Everybody remembers from the pandemic, you go to the antigen test, you get the PCR test like it's now the lingo. So a PCR test is the most definitive way for us to see any kind of bacteria, fungi, or mycobacterium inside the pocket. I don't care about the shell of the implant. That's, you know, not what's important. I want to know what's up, up inside that against your scar tissue. So really what's hugged and, and stuck inside, because that sends a signal to your body. And when your body reacts to that signal, your immune system gets activated.
Do you notice more problems with the different material that the breast implant is.