Commentary on: Surgical Site Irrigation in Plastic Surgery: What is Essential?

Searching for the Holy Grail for the ideal surgical site irrigation solution has been a preoccupation of clinicians and researchers for decades. Due to the complexity of the problem, it is difficult to evaluate the myriad of proposed solutions. Also, what happens in a Petri dish may have limited relevance to what is occurring in a complex biologic system, further compromised by a foreign body, such as a breast implant.