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Can Breasts be Lifted Using Own Body Fat?

I Want to Lift my Breasts by Using my Own Body Fat. I'm 5'4 and 150 Lbs but Im not sure where to start

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15 Doctor Answers | Asked by bbortolotti in Glenwood, IL

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Can breast be lifted by using your own fat?

Yes and no. It depends how much sagging of the breasts you have. Without a frontal and side view photos no specific advise can be given. Do you like the volume of your breasts or you also want to be larger. A lot of women loose volume after pregnancy in the superior aspects of the breasts. If you have minimal sagging (your nipple is at the inframmmary crease or 1cm below it) you can get a nice improvement in shape and volume of your breasts. If your breasts sag more than that, you might... more

Breast Lift with Fat Transfer?

Breast lifting surgery is designed to raise the position of the breasts and nipples/areola complexes on the chest wall. This cannot be accomplished with fat transfer. Breast lifting typically involve some degree of skin and/or subcutaneous tissue excision and a resulting tightening of the “skin envelope” of the breasts. This skin excision and tightening effect serves to raise the position of the breasts on the chest wall. I hope this helps. more

Breast Enhancement Using Your Own Body Fat

Thank you for your question. While breasts cannot be lifted by transferring your own body fat, they can certainly be augmented (made larger). In many cases fat transfer alone can produce cosmetically desirable results. However, depending on the size and shape of your breast a breast lift (removing excess skin and re-positioning the areola) may also be required to achieve your preferred results. In our San Francisco Bay Area practice we have a high patient satisfaction rate with fat... more

Breast lift with autogolus fat transfer

Bbortolotti, Breast lift is a procedure to restore your nipple to a more youthful position on your chest wall. Depending on the amount of volume that has been lost and streeching of the skin over the years, there are various techniques that can accomplish this goal. If your current status provides a good skin envelope and appropriate nipple position you can correct this droopy nipple with an increase in volume. The most commonly used method is breast implants; silicone or... more

Using body fat to enhance breasts

Fat transfer is the new trend for transferring volume from one area of the body to the other. Popular areas include the face, the buttocks and recently the breasts. However, fat transfer is not magic. It is just another way to add volume. So, the volume addition may have a very slight lifting effect. However, if you have loose skin for ptotic (loose) breasts then you will more than likely require a mastopexy to achieve a nice result. If you post pictures,... more

Breast lift by using one's own body fat?

If you have loose breast skin, droopy or sagging breasts, deflated breast skin from weight loss or breast feeding, you PROBABLY need surgical skin tightening to achieve a more youthful or "perky" look. This procedure (mastopexy) requires skin incisions to shape and reconfigure the breasts in virtually all cases where the nipples are below the inframammary crease line, or where they point down rather than forward. In some mild cases, where the nipple/areola complexes face... more

Using your own fat for a breast lift

Breast lift cannot be achieved by adding volume alone. Adding fat via fat transfer only adds volume. However, fat re-arrangement in vertical breast lift can create very impressive results. Results which we have seen in our patients create great shape and volume to lifted breasts, almost as if they were augmented. Sincerely, Martin Jugenburg, MD

Can Breasts be Lifted Using Own Body Fat?

Your body fat can be used to replenish lost breast volume.It will not help in significantly lifting your breasts.

Fat Grafting Is Not A Substitute For A Breast Lift

Despite the desire to lift breasts by any method other than that which creates a scar, it simply is not possible. Fat grafting like breast implants is all about making the breast bigger...but that will not change the position of the nipple which is the barometer by which the sagging breasts are defined. All fat grafting will do is take what you have and make the existing shape of your breasts bigger. Real breast lifts require real scars.

Breast Lifting With Fat

The purpose of fat grafts to the breasts is to increase volume. Adding volume will not necessarily lift the breasts but fill the skin envelope and increase the size. If you have true ptosis the nipple and areola are situated low on the breast mound and there is excess loose skin. A lift will centralize the nipple over the breast mound and remove the excess skin. This cannot be achieved with fat grafts alone.

Fatty Breast Lift

Hello bbortolotti, Transfer of your own fat to your breasts, like breast augmentation using traditional implants, will increase the size of your breasts, but not lift the breasts in any reliable fashion. Unfortunately, if your breasts are already heavy, hang below the crease, or your nipples are positioned low on the breast mound, fat transfer or breast implants alone are unlikely to give you a result that will make you happy with. In this situation, a true mastopexy or... more

Braest lifting and fat grafting

Fat grafting to fill up the volume or breast implants, will not lift the breasts. They will just fill up the sack. If a lift is needed a more formal excision of skin and modeling of the breasts are probably necessary.

Steven Wallach, MD

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Fat grafting to Lift the Breasts

The purpose of a breast lift is usually to tighten the skin of the breasts and raise the nipple. The tried and true methods of breast lift require some sort of skin excision to reshape the breasts. For carefully selected woman, adding volume alone can lift the nipple a centimeter or two. How much volume it takes to do this depends on how much loose skin you have and how far your nipple needs to be raised to give a pleasant look. This can be done with implants, but can... more

Fat grafting to lift breasts

Fat grafting to enhance breast size is helpful for some, though the volume of fat used is limited by the ability of the fat to 'take' or heal in as living tissue. The risk of breast lumps and cysts and calcifications is high with fat grafting, so our choice would be an implant. Also, lift is about nipple position and fat grafting would have little impact. Best of luck, peterejohnsonmd

Fat grafting for breast enlargment? maybe

The idea of using one's own fat to enlarge the breasts has been around for a long time but newer techniques are making a lot of plastic surgeons take a fresh look at the formerly controversial procedure. What we can fairly say is the the amnount of fat that can be added is still fairly small compared to a typical breast implant, and there remains a lot to be learned about how to make it work reliably. Breast lifting is a related but separate question. and fat grafting would only help if... more

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amd68 1 Sep 2012

Then, to follow on from that question, is it possible to use your own fat, no implants of any kind, plus moving the nipple to achieve perky breasts? Thereby avoiding the horrendous looking lollipop scar. I keep seeing surgeons telling women that they just have to tolerate these grotesque looking scars - the reality is a huge scar from your nipple downwards is almost as bad as sagging breasts, and however many times a surgeon tells us we need to just accept it, it doesn't become any more palatable.

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