Breast Fat Transfer Surgery

Fat grafting to enlarge female breasts is done, not only for cosmetic reasons, but to reconstruct deformities like a mastectomy, a breast implant collapse and or a tuberous breast, a condition in which the adult breasts fail to develop in puberty and result in extremely small, narrow and sagging breasts. Studies show that long-lasting natural improvements in the size and shape of the breasts are possible with a fat grafting technique. With this procedure, the donor fat is harvested, centrifuged for refinement and screen out for impurities. Then, in a four to five hour procedure, the fat is injected into the layers of the breast through six to eight, two millimeter incisions in each breast. (One millimeter is the width of a single line drawn by a ballpoint pen.) Blunt syringes and cannulas are used to place the fat so that no damage is done to blood vessels or nerves. The fat is layered from the pectoralis major muscle up through the top of the breast; the fat injections are used to shape the breasts for an aesthetic, natural-looking result.

Breast fat transfer procedures have been found to be “safe and effective” for augmenting Breasts, according to a 2001 report by the ASAPS (American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons). When breast fat transfer is performed fat is placed retroglandularly only, that is, in the plane occupied with the natural natural breast fat tissue.