Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Why Patients Choose Explant Surgery: A Deep Dive

25 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube interview ("Why Patients Choose Explant Surgery: A Deep Dive") in which Robert Whitfield MD and an unidentified speaker discuss why patients elect explant surgery. In this segment Whitfield reports a patient saying the implants "no longer served her," and emphasizes that explantation is elective and that his role is to guide patients toward informed decisions.

What was her reason? Because I'm always curious when people decide to do that. And usually I feel like there is some event that occurs that. That that's the impetus for someone to decide to. To do that. To do an explant.
Yeah. What I said was it no longer served her. That was her response to me when. So once again, these are elective, you know, and if the person decides that's their choice, I'm there to help guide them and make a better informed decision, which is what we should be doing in my position.