The Lu-Jean Feng Clinic | Lu Jean Feng, M.D. - Mold and Detoxification - Breast Implant Removal @TheLuJeanFengClinic | Uploaded April 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Excerpt taken from Dr. Lu-Jean Feng's Webinar Breast Implants: Are They Worth The Risk? II
Featured in this video is Lu-Jean Feng, M.D., Medical Director at The Lu-Jean Feng Clinic and Linda L. Haas, Director of Operations at The Lu-Jean Feng Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. The complete webinar (50+ minutes) is available for streaming on our website.
fengclinic.com/webinars
Transcript:
Linda L. Haas
Good afternoon. Welcome to our webinar, Breast Implants: Are They Worth The Risk? part two. This is a continuation of a topic that was started by Dr. Lu-Jean Feng several weeks ago. We will continue the c!onversation.!
Hi! I’m Linda Haas, the Director of Operations and CEO of The Lu-Jean Feng Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. I’ve worked with Dr. Feng for the past eighteen years and together we have experienced and help a lot of women who have had problems with both silicone and saline breast implants. There’s no one better to share her experience and expertise in this area than Dr. Lu-Jean Feng, a graduate of Yale and Yale M!edical School, a very brilliant surgeon... so let’s get started. Dr. Feng: I’ll turn the seminar over to you.
Lu-Jean Feng, M.D.
Good afternoon! Hello everybody. I really cherish the opportunity to speak to all of you concerning this very important subject. So, let me hear your first question, Linda.
Linda L. Haas
We have many questions that have come in from all over the world including Australia, Canada and the United States. We have a number of participants today, I hope you find this very informative and educational.
Dr. Feng, the first subject matter that we’ll discuss this afternoon involves detoxification and mold. This seems to be a very important topic and something that is on the minds of many women who have breast implants because of the controversy involved. Why does one plastic surgeon have a high rate of patients who they see who has mold in or on their implants and you rarely see this in your practice?
Lu-Jean Feng, M.D.
That’s a very good question. I can’t comment on one plastic surgeon’s experience, but in general there are very few plastic surgeons that see mold. And certainly in my own experience of thousands of implants, explantations since the early nineties I don’t see, ever see any mold except in one case in the late nineteen nineties. So I’m very familiar with the clinical picture of mold infection, but for the thousands of other cases I don’t see that.
Linda L. Haas
Thank you. Another question that was offered: How do you ensure patients that they don’t have mold in or on their implants?
Lu-Jean Feng, M.D.
Well, first of all we are very careful in preserving the implants during removal and after the removal through and en bloc procedure where you have the implant and capsule coming out at the same time I have my nurse photograph right on the operating room table and then we cut open the capsule and really carefully look at the implant to see how clear the contents are, whether there are any black spots. Any black spots on the implant, in the actual valve itself, has been analyzed and these have been mostly actually components of blood, believe it or not. Then it is photographed and sent to an outside pathology firm to have it examined- especially the capsule. And so we are very familiar and certainly the pathologists are very familiar with the histomorphological picture of mold and so far they have not seen it, I certainly have not seen this since that one case in the late ninety nineties.
Linda L. Haas
Thank you. Another question regarding the same topic: Do you test the implants specifically for mold and fungus and if not, why not?
Lu-Jean Feng, M.D.
We absolutely test specifically for any microorganism, whether it be fungus, bacteria [as well as] cancer. This is where the pathology is so important because your pathology examines your response to the implant, so if there is mold present there would be tell tale signs of that. Meaning there will be granulomatous formation, epitheliod cells, eosynaphils, but these are highly unusual. We see mostly lymphocytes, plasmacytes- these are all immune responses to a foreign body.
Linda L. Haas
Thank you. Another question: Do you think it’s necessary to send the implants and capsules to Dr. [Pierre] Blais in Ottawa Canada for further analysis?
Lu-Jean Feng, M.D.
The capsules in my practice are sent to a pathologist who is very experienced at reading capsular pathology. Now, Dr. Blais is a biomaterials PhD engineer. He has a lot of experience and knowledge regarding implants. If you need more information on the implants, then I would send it to him, but since most people are more concerned about their own response, their own reaction, and what is happening to their body I think the capsular pathology will be most important.
Excerpt taken from Dr. Lu-Jean Feng's Webinar Breast Implants: Are They Worth The Risk? II
Featured in this video is Lu-Jean Feng, M.D., Medical Director at The Lu-Jean Feng Clinic and Linda L. Haas, Director of Operations at The Lu-Jean Feng Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. The complete webinar (50+ minutes) is available for streaming on our website.
fengclinic.com/webinars
Transcript:
Linda L. Haas
Good afternoon. Welcome to our webinar, Breast Implants: Are They Worth The Risk? part two. This is a continuation of a topic that was started by Dr. Lu-Jean Feng several weeks ago. We will continue the c!onversation.!
Hi! I’m Linda Haas, the Director of Operations and CEO of The Lu-Jean Feng Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. I’ve worked with Dr. Feng for the past eighteen years and together we have experienced and help a lot of women who have had problems with both silicone and saline breast implants. There’s no one better to share her experience and expertise in this area than Dr. Lu-Jean Feng, a graduate of Yale and Yale M!edical School, a very brilliant surgeon... so let’s get started. Dr. Feng: I’ll turn the seminar over to you.
Lu-Jean Feng, M.D.
Good afternoon! Hello everybody. I really cherish the opportunity to speak to all of you concerning this very important subject. So, let me hear your first question, Linda.
Linda L. Haas
We have many questions that have come in from all over the world including Australia, Canada and the United States. We have a number of participants today, I hope you find this very informative and educational.
Dr. Feng, the first subject matter that we’ll discuss this afternoon involves detoxification and mold. This seems to be a very important topic and something that is on the minds of many women who have breast implants because of the controversy involved. Why does one plastic surgeon have a high rate of patients who they see who has mold in or on their implants and you rarely see this in your practice?
Lu-Jean Feng, M.D.
That’s a very good question. I can’t comment on one plastic surgeon’s experience, but in general there are very few plastic surgeons that see mold. And certainly in my own experience of thousands of implants, explantations since the early nineties I don’t see, ever see any mold except in one case in the late nineteen nineties. So I’m very familiar with the clinical picture of mold infection, but for the thousands of other cases I don’t see that.
Linda L. Haas
Thank you. Another question that was offered: How do you ensure patients that they don’t have mold in or on their implants?
Lu-Jean Feng, M.D.
Well, first of all we are very careful in preserving the implants during removal and after the removal through and en bloc procedure where you have the implant and capsule coming out at the same time I have my nurse photograph right on the operating room table and then we cut open the capsule and really carefully look at the implant to see how clear the contents are, whether there are any black spots. Any black spots on the implant, in the actual valve itself, has been analyzed and these have been mostly actually components of blood, believe it or not. Then it is photographed and sent to an outside pathology firm to have it examined- especially the capsule. And so we are very familiar and certainly the pathologists are very familiar with the histomorphological picture of mold and so far they have not seen it, I certainly have not seen this since that one case in the late ninety nineties.
Linda L. Haas
Thank you. Another question regarding the same topic: Do you test the implants specifically for mold and fungus and if not, why not?
Lu-Jean Feng, M.D.
We absolutely test specifically for any microorganism, whether it be fungus, bacteria [as well as] cancer. This is where the pathology is so important because your pathology examines your response to the implant, so if there is mold present there would be tell tale signs of that. Meaning there will be granulomatous formation, epitheliod cells, eosynaphils, but these are highly unusual. We see mostly lymphocytes, plasmacytes- these are all immune responses to a foreign body.
Linda L. Haas
Thank you. Another question: Do you think it’s necessary to send the implants and capsules to Dr. [Pierre] Blais in Ottawa Canada for further analysis?
Lu-Jean Feng, M.D.
The capsules in my practice are sent to a pathologist who is very experienced at reading capsular pathology. Now, Dr. Blais is a biomaterials PhD engineer. He has a lot of experience and knowledge regarding implants. If you need more information on the implants, then I would send it to him, but since most people are more concerned about their own response, their own reaction, and what is happening to their body I think the capsular pathology will be most important.
