Dr. Robert Whitfield says 29% of explanted implants had bacterial contamination when full capsulectomies were performed. He argues leaving the capsule in place allows persistent symptoms and that complete capsulectomy should be routine for every patient.
I'm preparing a whole podcast just about capsulectomy to hope just help raise awareness to why a capsulectomy should be discussed and why it's important. So for many, many years, capsulectomy was done from an oncologic standpoint, because cancers can developing those. So and there's literature, actually, you can go to either. I guess we should post all these on my website. But I wrote a paper last year and published it that 29% have bacterial contamination when we explant them and do full capsulectomies, which I do on every case. And so if you don't explant somebody and they have that underlying contamination, then they can still have symptoms. If you were to do. And I'm saying, you know, do I do a complete capsulectomy on everyone? It's not dangerous. Which is said, you know, routinely.
