Breast augmentation remains one of the most popular enhancement procedures for those looking to improve areas of their body that they are less than comfortable with. As thousands of breast augmentations are performed each year, advancements in how breast augmentation procedures are conducted continue to be made. Breast implants have typically been relied upon to add volume and new shape to breasts that are suffering from sagging, a loss of tissue or are overall smaller than desired, however, more breast augmentation patients are turning to fat transfers as a method for adding fuller breasts without using breast implants.
Fat transfer breast augmentation makes use of extra fat deposits elsewhere on the body, generally the hips, thighs or abdomen, and uses that fat to fill in the breasts to create a more voluminous, fuller appearance and texture. The process begins with a gentle liposuction of the fatty area to remove enough fat to insert into the breast tissue. Once the fat has been carefully removed it is then cleansed and purified before inserted into each breast through small tubes and a tiny incision under the breast.
There are many benefits to fat transfer breast augmentation procedures when compared to traditional breast augmentation. Using the body’s natural fat storage as opposed to a foreign object such a silicone breast implant is more appealing to many patient’s and there’s less of a risk that the body is going to reject a transferring of its own fat as happens from time to time when breast implants are inserted into the body.
Fat transfers into the breast have a tendency of looking a lot more natural than breast implants which generally can’t be molded and manipulated past their original shape. With fat transfers, the injected fat is a lot more fluid and can better fill the natural contour of the breast, filling each crevice to create a naturally fuller appearance. Breasts that have been augmented with fat transfers may also tend to feel a lot more like a natural breast to the touch than those that have been altered with the help of a breast implant.
Incisions made during a fat transfer breast augmentation are quite small when compared to other more traditional breast augmentation procedures. These small incisions are just large enough to allow little tubes’ access into the breast tissue to inject the fat, and as such they usually heal easily and without any scarring.