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What Types of Breast Implants Use Body Fat, Instead of Silicone?

asked 6 months ago by anon
Latest answer by Michael H. Rosenberg, MD
Question viewed 114 times
Tags: allergy, comparison, fat, fat harvesting

Is it true that this type of surgery is safer for people with allergies to synthetic materials?

11 answers to What Types of Breast Implants Use Body Fat, Instead of Silicone?

Using a person's own fat to enlarge the breasts is an intriguing new approach

To breast augmentation, but the technique has not yet gained wide acceptance in the plastic surgery community. Implants in the United States are filled with saline (by the surgeon at the time of the breast augmentation) or filled with silicone gel by the manufacturer. There are no implants that are filled with body fat. Microfat injections using a careful technique to preserve the fat that is harvested from a patient, and then injecting that fat into another area of the... more

Michael H. Rosenberg, MD
White Plains Plastic Surgeon

Implants with body fat

There are no breast implants filled with body fat. Fat transfer may used in certain cases around an implant to help comouflage rippling of the implants or to fill in a defect around the implant. There are also some surgeons augmenting small breasts with fat alone and no implant. Donald R. Nunn MD Atlanta Plastic Surgeon.

Donald Nunn, MD, DDS
Atlanta Plastic Surgeon

Breast implants fillew with fat

There are no implants that have the patient's fat in them. You may be thinking ot fat grafting to enhance the breast. This is still pretty experimental with no long term studies showing that this is safe and reliable.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Breast Implants Filled with Fat?

Currently breast implants are only filled with either saline or silicone. However directly placing fat into the breasts is a technique that has grown in popularity recently. The technique of fat grafting requires the correct harvesting technique and injection technique to ensure the greatest survival of the transplanted fat cells. There are definite benefits to both traditional breast implants as well as the use of fat. My opinion is that the fat grafting technique works best in... more

Jon F. Harrell, DO
Miami Plastic Surgeon

www.westonsurgery.com

No Implants for Transfer of Fat

There are no implants on the market which are made to have fat transferred into them for use as a Breast Implant. Storing fat inside implants would not be safe, as there would be no nutrients or oxygen to keep the fat from becoming rancid. Many substances have been tried over the decades, and saline and silicone gel have maintained their prominence and longevity for good reason.

Robert N. Young, MD
San Antonio Plastic Surgeon

www.dryoungforever.com

Fat grafting not Fat Filled Implants

You are probably referring to fat grafting for breast augmentation; this is an alternative to breast augmentation with implants. This uses your own fat grafted using microinjection techniques.

Jeffrey Hartog, MD
Orlando Plastic Surgeon

Breast Implants do NOT contain Fat

There are NO fat containing breast implants out there. It has repeatedly been shown ovewr 100 years of experience, that with few exception most things injected into the breast (such as candle wax, glass, nylon sponges, grease, silicone etc) will be poorly tolerated and have to come out. An implant containing peanut oil was briefly allowed on the European market and had to quickly be withdrawn. While implants containing salt water or silicone gel are safe - there are no good implants with... more

Peter A. Aldea, MD
Memphis Plastic Surgeon

No implants use fat filler. Allergy to silicone is extremely rare.

As others have answered, implants presently are filled with saline or silicone gel. The latest generation of silicone gel implants contain a cohesive silicone gel that is more highly crosslinked than older implants. These do not leak, rarely rupture, and "stick together" should the implant shell ever be breached in any way. Numerous scientific studies have confirmed the absence of cause-and-effect relationship between silicone breast implants and any sort of autoimmune disease or... more

Richard H. Tholen, MD, FACS
Minneapolis Plastic Surgeon

www.mpsmn.com

Fat Not Used in Breast Implants

Fat is not incorporated into any breast implant - they are made of silicone or saline. Fat may be injected into the breast. This is a separate type of procedure and is still somewhat controversial.

Brian Klink, MD
Sacramento Plastic Surgeon

www.solanoplasticsurgery.com

No breast implants contain fat

Breast implants are either saline filled or silicone gel filled. There are none filled with fat. Fat can be injected into the breast but this is still controversial.

Richard P. Rand, MD, FACS
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Breast Implant Composed of Body Fat?

Thank you for the question. There are no implants that use body fat. You may have heard of fat injections. All breast implants currently used have a silicone coating. I hope this helps.