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Can Fat Be Sucked from Stomach and Injected into Breasts?

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11 Doctor Answers | Asked by 405sexylady in Oklahoma City, Ok

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Stomach fat can be suctioned and injected into breasts

As you see there are very different view about this procedure. The recent position of the plastic surgery socirty has changed and advises to do this with CAUTION. I do not think that this should be done by every plastic surgeon at this time. I have done this for the last 4 years under a protocol with NIH. I have more than 150 patients and most of the patients are implant failure patients . This group of patients have failled implat breast augmentation and I have removed the implants and... more

Kamran Khoobehi, MD

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New Orleans Plastic Surgeon

Fat transfer breast augmentation

Breast augmentation by fat transfer is not the same as breast augmentation with implants and should not be considered an alternative to it. Breast augmentation with implants produces a variety of shapes, virtually all defined by rounder, fuller and more projecting results that are different from the outcomes that can be achieved with fat transfer. Fat transfer can be used to increase breast size, correct breast defects, aid in correcting implant problems, and completely or partially... more

Fat injection into breasts

Although there has been alot of talk at meetings about fat injection into the breast, it is stil controversial for primary augmentation. I would wait a bit longer before you pursue this procedure.

Steven Wallach, MD

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Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Fat Grafting to The Breast: Not Time Yet

I am in agreement with the caution expressed by every doctor here. I'm not sure if the answer is going to change much...at least in the near future. The answers we need on the effects of fat grafting on mammography are going to require hundreds of patients being followed over a period of years. On the bright side, radiologists are developing newer techniques to detect cancer besides mammography, and stem cell research will eventually yeild a better way to transfer your own tissue to the breast more

Fat injections into the breasts carries risks you should know

Despite the fact thousands of breast augmentation procedures are performed very successfully with implants each year there has been an allure of fat grafting into the breast for natural breast augmentation. There are several series of patients from which we can draw that clearly show the risk of fat grafting or injection into the breast. Fat can be difficult to harvest without damage to the fat cells, and the 'take' or survival and success of the injected material has been unpredictable.... more

Breast augmentation with fat

This is a really good question and a technique that is starting to gain some popularity: using a patient's own fat for a breast augmentation. While I think you can achieve a very nice cosmetic result with this technique, the problem that we have at the moment is that this technique may interfere with routine mammography, so that it is possible that it would be more difficult to catch breast cancers. As surgeons we need to take into account that 1 out of every 7 women will have breast... more

Fat grafting breast augmentation

This technique has gained recent popularity for obvious reason; you don't use an implant. The other upside is that you can do this in the office and unlike implants you can better sculpt the volume to the areas of the breast that need it snd oviously you get liposutiong done at the same time. The downsides are you may need more than one or two sessions, the volume increase is modest, not all the fat stays, some may die off resulting in lumps, calcium deposits and oil cysts. This may result... more

Fat can be injected into breasts

Yes this can be done but the most increase in size is only 250 cc's per breast. Again as Dr A has stated it is very controversial topic. You will be signing off label use consent because it is not fully accepted here in US. More recently we are offering Stem Cell Enhanced Fat Grafts for Breast Enhancement. Fees start from $8000. Research and try and find someone who is doing this. Regards.

Fat grafting to breasts remains controversial

The idea of removing some fat from an area where you don't want it and putting into the breasts has been around for a long time. Because any fat that doesn't survive can leave calcuim specks and lumps, the procedure was actually condemned by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The ban has recently been lifted due to improved techniques, but it remains somewhat experimental. One big issue is that the volume of fat required to acheive the same enlargement as an implant is quite a lot,... more

Fat grafting to the breasts for augmentation or enlargement

Dr. Aldea has reviewed the critical issues here. The primary concern is that fat grafts to the breast may interfere with mammographic evaluation of the breast. A select number of surgeons in France and Belgium have about 10 years experience with relatively good results whereas two surgeons in the US (one in Manhattan and the other in Miami) are currently evaluating this technique with promising preliminary results. Most plastic surgeons are awaiting the reports of these pioneers early... more

Otto Joseph Placik, MD

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Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Fat Grafting to the Breasts

It is really NOT a question of CAN it be done but rather one of SHOULD it be done and more importantly, SHOULD YOU have it done. Fat grafting to the breasts is a controversial procedure. Although through the efforts of one surgeon in Florida it is slowly becoming more accepted, the vast majority of Plastic surgeons are not doing it. The odds that a woman will have breast cancer in her lifetime is over 1 in 11 women. In other words 1 in 10 women will have it. The problem with fat grafting... more

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mitzig 7 May 2013

I am planning this proceedure with a Miami Dr. in Aventura, Florida. Not sure if this was one of the Floridian Surgeons to whom evryone is referring. I have seen cases he has done, with remarkable results; especially those who had impalnts removed, and wanted volume. I have a breast lift/reduction wiout implants, and am just looking for volume, and a little bit of a lift. Breast cancer DOES NOT run in my family...should I be concerned?

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