A short conversational transcript featuring Robert Whitfield MD discussing explant surgery and arguing that removing the capsule (scar tissue around an implant) is important. Whitfield asserts low complication rates in his practice and cites his surgical background in cancer/reconstruction as relevant experience for safely removing capsules during explantation.
So in. In my opinion, if. I feel like if you're going to go through the explant situation, you might. This seems to be to remove the capsule.
Yeah. The funny thing is there's a lot of pushback. Right. Oh, it's dangerous. Right. You'll hear this a lot. So everybody can. For your audience to know, I've done 1500 plus and I have a less than 1% pneumothorax rate, which is entering the chest, and a less than 1% hematoma. Right. It's, you know, relatively speaking, it's a very, very low risk procedure in the hands of somebody who's experienced. But I didn't get, you know, that experience in the traditional fashion from cosmetic surgery, because I did, you know, cancer surgery for so long. So when I would take down a reconstruction to make someone flat, which is perfectly fine in terms of reconstructions, if that is what they wanted, whether they began that way or they wanted their implants taken out and become flat, you would take all that material out anyway for a couple reasons. One, they could have an infection because they had an implant. Everybody knows anytime you had an implant, you could always have an infection because it's not your tissue.
