Fat Transfer with Breast Implants?

My saline implants are over the muscle, and 12 years old. At this point I have had some breast tissue loss, some rippling and generally some overall changes. I was wondering, I have a local doc who said I could avoid getting new implants by doing fat transfer to fill in the problem areas and reshape them. Is this something I should consider or should I just get new implants?

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Fat grafting over implants to improve appearance is an option

Fat grafting can be an excellent option to add fullness to the upper pole of the breasts, without implants or even over the top of implants. Fat can also be used to improve assymetries and help with rippling. However fat grafting is very technique sensitive, and surgeons who do not pay attention to each aspect of the process may not get consitent results. Every component of the procedure from fat harvesting, to fat purification, to micrografting, and even preparing the bed of time... more

That sounds like a plan from a doctor that doesn't do breast augmentation.

That treatment plan sounds like something I frequently hear from family practice doctors or others that are trying to develop "fat grafting" clinics and don't perform breast augmentation otherwise. If this is not the case with that doctor then my apologies. You have 2 issues going on here; 1)rippling saline implants with minimal soft tissue coverage, and 2) most likely some capsular contracture. I would suggest switching to silicone implants and separating the... more

Fat grafting to the breast for implant wrinkling

I think you'll probably be disappointed with the results of this treatment plan. The fundamental issue you are facing is a wrinkling implant with minimal soft tissue coverage. The most reliable way to correct this problem is to change to silicone implants and move them behind the muscle. I've done fat grafting for a few patients with their implant and coverage situations optimized (as described above), and have still not had complete correction of implant wrinkling. The use of... more