Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

What's the Best Treatment Option for Breast Implant Illness?

17 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD (speaker) discusses treatment options for breast implant illness, drawing on his clinical experience since approximately 2016. He states that surgery (implant removal) has been the primary treatment option for patients with implant-based problems, and that he uses a "holistic accelerated recovery program" prior to surgery. He frames chronic inflammation — influenced by genetic predisposition and non-implant causes — as the central underlying driver of breast implant illness and the target of his broader treatment approach.

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What are the treatment options for breast implant illness? I started taking care of patients with breast implant illness in approximately 2016, and at that point, given my experience with implant based problems, surgery was the number one treatment option for patients with breast implant infections. We use my holistic accelerated recovery program prior to surgery, and it's rooted in determining causes outside of implant based causes that are leading to chronic inflammation. So when we look at everyone's genetics, certain genetic archetypes predispose you to more problems with inflammation. And as everybody's heard me discuss on my show and interviews I do on other shows, I believe chronic inflammation is basically the root, if you will, of breast implant illness. And so it's not so much that this is a figure out all these different things, categorize it as a specific, you know, disease entity, and then treat it.