Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Why Your Implants Aren't Forever: The Truth Revealed!

4 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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Robert Whitfield MD (speaker) explains that medical implants are not lifetime devices — examples include pacemakers and joint replacements, which commonly require replacement over time. He notes that implant-based reconstructions (e.g., post-cancer) often lead to additional operations compared with using the patient’s own tissue, citing institutions like MD Anderson as reporting higher reoperation rates for prosthetic reconstructions.

There is no quote, unquote, lifetime device. Pacemakers get replaced, joints get replaced. That's why they don't like putting joints in really young people because they're going to have to replace them. And similarly, when you look back at studies of cancer syndromes like MD Anderson, they'll say that the patients having implant based reconstructions will go on to have more operations. Because it's a prosthetic device, it's not your own tissue, right?