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Had breast reconstruction. I am get afraid if I loose weight the fat graft will change, how much wight loss would affect that ?

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drgole123Sep 22, 2018

Hi , I did reconstruction breast surgery and it is consist of implant and fat graft , the one was 315 cc with too much fat graft due to radical mastectomy, and other one is 495 cc because it was nipple sparing mastectomy,I am get afraid if I loose weight the fat graft will change , how much weight loss would affect that ?

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