For someone interested in breast augmentation, fat grafting will have two separate procedures completed on the same day.
Removing Fat Tissue: This is the first procedure, it includes:
- Local anesthesia is administered with the required dosage.
- From the parts of the body fat tissues are removed manually by the doctor where the patient doesn’t desire any fat, for example, belly, buttocks, and thighs, with minimally invasive liposuction.
Injection of Fat Tissue in the Breasts: This is the second procedure, it includes:
- The tissue taken out in the first procedure is cleaned from the unwanted components, for example, water, oil, and
- After the separation, fat tissue is injected by the doctor with a very thin needle in the areas of the breasts that needs enhancement. To enhance the results of fat transfer, fat cells in multiple areas are injected into the breasts.
Side-effects
For fat grafting for breast augmentation extensive studies are required to be done. The procedure isn’t FDA approved yet.
Following are the side-effects:
- Calcification or oil cysts might form if for any reason the fat cells that are injected do not survive in the breasts. The reason is that breast tissue is different from fat. For the survival of the fat injected into the breast tissue, it needs to be evenly and carefully distributed. If calcification happens, it can be seen in a mammogram and can be confused as breast cancer.
- The fat cells which are injected in the breast may stimulate the growth. As a result, there is a fear that the sleeping cells of breast cancer can start growing.
- The fat cells that are injected in the breast can get reabsorbed by the body, as a result over time the breast can lose This is a long-term effect.
Other risks:
- infection
- anesthesia risk
- bleeding
- can’t get the breast size as desired
