How Much Does It Cost to Get Fat Transfer to Breasts?

asked 2 years ago by 4370anon in Chicago
Latest answer by Burr Von Maur, MD
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Tags: breasts, costs

I heard that doc's are now giving women lifts by injecting their own fat and stem cells to get a natural rise, with minimal scarring. How much does this cost near chicago? Does ptosis matter?

5 answers to How Much Does It Cost to Get Fat Transfer to Breasts?

Breast augmentation and breast lift with fat grafting

Safety is the main concern with fat grafting of the breasts. Abnormal calcifications, unpredictable stem cell activiy, and oil globlues may occur. Graft survival is also unpredictable. Fat grafting will not "lift" your breast...it may fill it somewhat which may create the illusion of a lift, but not a true lift. We reccommend a ps evaluation.

Burr Von Maur, MD
Orange County Plastic Surgeon

Adding fat to the breast with its inevitable calcifications is adding more risk

There are Plastic Surgeons who are injecting fat into breasts to increase breast size. This does work, with the normal variations of fat survival, with breast volume increasing up to one cup size. The most important question is not how much does it cost, but is it safe? Fat grafting to the breast can cause "microcalcifications" which will show up on mammograms. One of the things that radiologists look for on mammograms is calcifications, as these are sometimes a sign... more

Daniel P. Markmann, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

Fat transfer to the breast

Just attended a course on Fat Transfer to the Breast It will not replace a lift, it will fill the breast some. The issue of fat transfer to the breast is still very contraversial. The questions are 1: microcalcifications 2: stem cells, what is the long term effect 3 Effect on mammogram 4: oil cysts formation This is not a procedure to be taken lightly. It still requires a lot of sudy and research before it is adopted.

Samir Shureih, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

Breast lifts don't come from fat injection

I rather doubt that a real plastic surgeon would be promoting the concept that a breast lift could come from fat injections. It sounds more like the idea of a non-plastic surgeon trying to tempt you into their office with promises that can't be met and praying on your fears of scars from a breast lift. Be very careful!

Richard P. Rand, MD, FACS
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Breast augmentation with fat grafting

PLEASE SEE WEB SITE BELOW: You cannot truly lift a breast by performing fat injections. However, you can fill an atrophied breast (shrunken) following weight loss or lactation which can make a "deflated" or saggy looking breast appear fuller and more "perky." Costs vary tremendously and this is a controversial procedure that is being performed by a handful of physicians in the United States.

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

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