Many women want to have larger breasts but aren’t interested in implants. Some may have safety concerns, while others want a subtle size increase. That’s where fat transfer breast augmentation enters the picture.

Fat grafting breast augmentation uses fat injections rather than implants to boost your cup size. Instead, the plastic surgeon uses liposuction on a body part with extra fat injected into the breasts.

This type of fat transfer breast augmentation is natural and provides a discreet size increase that many patients prefer. This method is becoming more popular as some women no longer want it to be evident that they had ‘work done’ on their chests.

Women often want the improvements to be subtle for various personal and professional reasons. For example, a successful businesswoman may wish to improve her figure, but implants might be too noticeable for her tastes.

A fat transfer augmentation also lets you sculpt a problem area by removing fat transferred into the breasts.

If you’re interested in breast augmentation with fat grafting, below is essential information to consider.

What Are The Benefits Of Fat Transfer Breast Augmentation?

Fat grafting breast augmentation is getting more popular because of its many benefits:

It’s Natural

Many women are reluctant to put implants in their bodies. There are legitimate concerns about side effects and complications from breast implants.

Fat transfer breast augmentation provides a subtle bump in size without implants. And because the fat is part of you, the breasts will look and feel natural.

Body Reshaping

How often do you get to have two plastic surgeries at once? This kind of fat transfer lets you remove fat from a problem area and inject it into your breasts.

For example, you may be bothered by fat on your abdomen. Your surgeon can remove some of that fat and carefully inject it into your chest for natural-looking results during your plastic surgery

You also can opt for other plastic surgery procedures during breast augmentation, including a chin liposuction, liposuction, labiaplasty, tummy tuck or Brazilian butt lift.

Minor Scarring

Your surgeon injects the fat into the breasts through tiny incisions that will be almost invisible when they heal leaving minimal fat transfer breast augmentation scars. You’d have to look very carefully to see the incisions after several months pass.

On the other hand, breast implants leave noticeable scars. They are usually in the breast crease and hard to see, though.

Rare Complications

Fat grafting has few risks because it’s less invasive than implants and involves your natural tissue.

Fat Grafting Breast augmentation risks, including rupture, infection, bleeding, and more. They also may need replacing after 10 or 20 years.

Fat Transfer Breast Augmentation Procedure

Before having a fat transfer, your plastic surgeon will meet with you to discuss before and after results from previous cases.

Next, your plastic surgeon will examine your breasts, and an associate will take photographs. The photos are used to create a plan for fat transfer breast augmentation. The fat transfer plan includes details about how you want your chest to look while also enhancing your shape by removing fat from a problem zone.

Your plastic surgeon will begin the fat transfer procedure using this plan by putting you under general or local anesthesia. If you have one area that has enough fat, they may only suction tissue from that area.

But some women may need fat removed from more than one site during their plastic surgery, including:

Outer or inner thighs
Abdomen
Flanks
Calves
Arms
Back

Your surgeon will use a cannula to remove the fat. After it’s removed, the surgical team will use a centrifuge to clean and refine the fat by taking out water, blood, and oil. Then, the surgeon uses the refined fat by carefully injecting it into your breasts.

The surgeon puts small amounts of fat in the breasts, often using hundreds or thousands of motions in the breast tissue to help the injected fat settle in and provide optimal results. Then, the surgeon massages the breasts gently, placing the fat evenly for a uniform appearance.

Ideal Candidates For Fat Grafting Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation with fat transfer is an ideal plastic surgery for a woman who wants a natural approach to breast augmentation. Ideal candidates for a fat transfer breast augmentation usually have breasts with these features:

Smaller size
Asymmetrical shape, with one larger than the other
Loss of shape or volume from weight loss, pregnancy, or breastfeeding
Reduced breast size or volume from aging

Fat transfer breast augmentations are the perfect surgery for the right candidate. Good candidates for a fat transfer breast augmentation need to have enough fat on other body parts, so there’s enough tissue to transfer. Women who are very thin and don’t have extra fat to harvest may need traditional breast augmentation and a breast lift.

You also should be in good health and not smoke. You need to quit several weeks before the fat transfer if you smoke because it can affect the healing process.

Women who have a fat transfer can expect to increase as much as one breast cup size. However, most patients are delighted with the natural-looking results, and the procedure is essentially permanent. Often, women who have suffered from breast cancer seek out breast augmentation after they have beat breast cancer. The question of fat transfer augmentations vs a breast implant surgery is an important consideration. Many women opt for a breast implant surgery as they have undergone a very severe change in their bodies and many have found that a breast implant surgery helps them return confidently to the body they loved.

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Interested in fat grafting breast augmentation near me?

Please set up a plastic surgery consultation with Dr. Ashley Steinberg today. She’ll talk to you about the benefits and risks of fat grafting breast augmentation and determine if this procedure is a fit for you.