How Successful is It to Have Fat Transferred to the Breasts? Does It Look Like Breast Implants but More Natural?

asked 10 months ago by anon
Latest answer by Vivek Bansal, MD
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Tags: weight loss, natural appearance

Hi, I was thinking about getting a fat transfer done to my breasts. How successful is it, and does it end up looking like a more natural breast augmentation? If I lose weight, will I lose it in my breasts? Thank you.

7 answers to How Successful is It to Have Fat Transferred to the Breasts? Does It Look Like Breast Implants but More Natural?

Fat Grafts to Breasts

There is lot of talk and controversy about fat injections or fat grafts to breasts these days. This certainly is a sure way to get unpredictable operation with lumpy breasts and possibly long term interference with breast exams. Some fat can calcify and cause confusion with cancer on mammograms. Do not follow intrigue and hype. If you want larger breasts, get breast implants. Don't play games with your body.

Vasdev Rai, MD
Dallas Plastic Surgeon

Fat Transfer for Breast Augmentation.

Fat grafting for breast augmentation is an area of significant interest in plastic surgery presently. This procedure may still be considered controversial. This is especially true with regard to the survival of the transferred fat and cancer surveillance with mammograms. Fat cells that have not survived can lead to micro calcification and this is what may be looked for on mammograms to detect cancer, leading to some confusion. It continues to be an area of... more

Stephen Delia, M.D.
Boston Plastic Surgeon

Fat grafting would work if done properly

Fat grafting to the breast does work and can achieve very natural looking breast. The limitations of the fat grafting is the patients donor site and the amount of fat that can be grafted safely in one session. The goals of the fat grafting to the breast is to enhance breast shape,cleavage and size. You need to make sure that your plastic surgeon is qualified to do the fat grafting. There are many non-qualified doctors that offer fat grafting without roper training. I been doing fat grafting... more

Kamran Khoobehi, MD
New Orleans Plastic Surgeon

Fat transfer to breast

I do not perform fat transfers to the breast as an alternative to breast augmentation . I perform fat transfer to the breast to augment selective areas of the breast in conjunction with augmentation.

Jay M. Pensler, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Free fat grafting to the breasts

As much as 50% or more of grafted fat does not survive hence the need to over augment at each session & the possible need for more more than one session. The inject fat is devoid of blood supply & some of it dies while new blood vessels are growing into the graft. Graft survival is improved by injecting only viable intact cells in thin lines or rows in areas of good blood supply such as into a muscle or in the deeper layers of the face. Whatever fat is still present at 6 months has... more

Aaron Stone, MD
Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon

Fat Transfer

Usually a cup size is optimistic, but if you have the fat, perhaps more is possible. Thank you for your question and good luck with everything.

Vivek Bansal, MD
Danville Plastic Surgeon

Fat grafting is an excellent option for breast augmentation

Fat grafting is an excellent option for breast augmentation, and is without doubt the most natural feeling material, as normal breasts are already composed largely of fat. Once the fat takes, it will survive just like it did before, but only in a different place, so it will behave like normal fat getting larger or smaller as you lose or gain weight. Normal breasts do this as well due to their fat content. However fat grafting is very technique sensitive, and surgeons who do not pay attention... more

Jeffrey Hartog, MD
Orlando Plastic Surgeon

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