When doing fat grafting, BBL, what does 1600cc mean? Is this pure fat?

Always ask the surgeon is this amount pure fat?   Is this the amount for one side or both sides?   This will make a huge difference in the results.Kenneth Hughes, MDLos Angeles, CA

The 1600 cc's is the volume of fat placed into your buttocks. It never is 100% fat but we strive to get the most concentrated fat possible. 1200 cc's in each buttock is considered a large BBL.

I am not exactly sure what you are referring to. Do you mean the aspirate, the fat itself, how much is injected into each buttock.  

A cc is equivalent to a mL. One way to look at that is to think of a bottle of water. The standard bottle of water is 500mL, so 500cc would be the same volume as a bottle of water. 1600cc is roughly 3 bottles of water. It is actually not pure fat although we do all sorts of techniques to try to get it as pure as possible. One of the reasons why the buttocks shrinks is secondary to absorption of any fluid that was mixed in with the fat. This shrinkage happens early. The volume loss that happens a little slower over the first 3-6 months is actual fat death. 

A cc means cubic centimeter. It is a measure of volume. It is used for volume of implants, fat injections, fillers and any time to measure volume