Overview
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. David Rankin, founder of Aqua Plastic Surgery in Jupiter and Miami, Florida, chief of plastic surgery at St. Mary’s Medical Center, and one of the leading explant surgeons in the United States. Dr. Rankin started his career performing breast augmentations and slowly became a convert as he watched hundreds of his own patients improve dramatically after having their implants removed. This is also a personal episode for me, as Dr. Rankin is the surgeon who removed my own breast implants in December 2020, and the results were nothing short of remarkable. If you have implants, are considering getting them, or know someone who is struggling with unexplained symptoms, this conversation is essential listening.
You’ll Learn
- What breast implant illness actually is, why even the FDA now recognizes it, and why it does not affect every woman but does affect a significant and growing number
- The wide range of symptoms associated with breast implant illness including brain fog, joint pain, anxiety, skin rashes, and food intolerances, and why most conventional doctors still dismiss them
- Why both silicone and saline implants carry risks, since saline implants still have a silicone outer shell, and why textured implants carry the highest documented risk for certain rare cancers
- The rare but real cancer associations including anaplastic large cell lymphoma and squamous cell carcinoma that women need to be informed about before making any decision
- Why a total capsulectomy, meaning removal of both the implant and the surrounding scar tissue, is critical to a full recovery and what can go wrong when the capsule is left behind
- The key questions to ask any surgeon before choosing them for an explant, and why experience and volume matter more than almost anything else
- What the recovery timeline actually looks like after explant surgery, when you can return to exercise, and why drains are worth asking about
- Why breast augmentation rates are declining while explant rates are rising, and where Dr. Rankin sees this trend heading over the next decade
Resources
Connect with Dr. David Rankin:
Website- https://davidrankinmd.com/
Your body knows when something does not belong. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is listen to it.
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