How Long Will Fat Transfer to Pecs Last?

Fat injections, fat grafts, lipotransfer involve the movement of fat that is harvested from one area of the body to another. The harvest is from a  donor area usually on the lower abdomen or thigh or buttock. The fat is processed and then reinjected in the recipient area. As it is...

The fat can "take" irregularly and lead to asymmetry or lumpiness.  Infection is possible but rare.  Bleeding with significant bruising occasionally.  The graft might not take and make the benefits temporary.

It is possible to remove the fat to make you more symmetrical but it needs to be physically removed which is complicated by the fact that fat is in your pecs. This is not an easy problem to fix. Sorry! Visit with a board certified plastic surgeon.

You must be examined to determine the extent of fat loss and ptosis or dropped buttock. IT is possible that fat injections can provide improvement for some patients with such a condition.

On can often experience significant asymmetry after fat transfer especially if you started off asymmetrically and the doctor made amends for that by injecting more fat on one side than the other to compensate for such. basically the state to my patients that fat and swelling continue to...

In general the amount of fat harvested to do fat transfer to the face is much less than for liposuction/liposculpture for body contouring purposes.  Because of this, the physiologic challenge to the body is significantly less and therefore generally "safer" with all other factors...