How does your breast fat grafting or fat transfer to the breasts work?.
Breast augmentation with fat transfer involves using your own excess fat from areas like the abdomen, buttocks, or thighs and grafting it into the breasts. Although this technique has been applied in breast augmentation for over thirty years, it is not yet widely popular among surgeons or women around the world.
Because there was no stem cell technology, when harvesting fat was purified and selected, only good quality injected into the breast, but the amount of fat that survived after being injected into the breast was only less than 30%.
Nowadays, thanks to stem cell technology, the extracted fat is enriched with additional stem cells. As a result, up to 60% of the fat injected into the breasts can survive. And the amount of living fat will last forever, hence fat transfer breast augmentation combined with cell stem technology has shown a positive step.
Procedure of breast augmentation with autologous fat injection.
Advantages.
- Soft And natural.
- No incision scars.
Disadvantages.
- For those people who want to perform fat transfer breast augmentation, it's essential to have at least double the amount of excess fat in areas like the abdomen or thighs. The fat is carefully extracted, purified, and only the highest quality fat cells are selected for transfer to the breasts.
- Although stem cell technology is available, when fat is grafted into the breasts, only up to 60% of the fat survives. The remaining fat, which doesn't survive, will be broken down by the body's white blood cells, forming calcified lumps in the breasts. These calcifications can appear similar to breast tumors when seen on mammograms, breast MRIs, or ultrasounds.
- As a result, if a malignant tumor were to develop later, it might not be detected in time. This remains a significant unresolved issue with fat grafting, as it could delay the early detection of breast cancer.
- Additionally, the amount of fat injected into each breast should not exceed 300cc. If in the best-case, where 60% the fat survives, it would only equate to a breast implant size of about 180cc. In Contrast, most women choose sizes of 300cc of lager.
Anesthesia Method: General or Local Anesthesia.
Procedure Duration: 3 - 4 hours, including 3 steps.
Step 1: Fat is suctioned from areas with excess fat (abdomen, hips, thighs, etc.).
Step 2: The fat is centrifuged to extract high-quality fat and stem cells.
Step 3: Fat injected into the breasts according to the predetermined volume.
Step 4: Post-operative care.
Wear a specialized garment to compress the area, reducing swelling, bleeding, and firming shape the breasts.
Avoid strenuous work during the first week.
Take antibiotics, pain relievers, and anti-inflammatory medications as prescribed by the doctor after fat graft breast augmentation.
* The result also depends on the natural disposition of each person.
