Dr. Robert Whitfield explains that lean patients can still be candidates for fat transfer despite having less donor fat available. He and Jenna discuss practical harvesting strategies for thin patients seeking alternatives to implants or wanting to avoid scarring and downtime.
Let's take the first patient, the patient who's been told they're too thin. This is a very common occurrence in my practice, and you know there's typically we're not going to use really young patients because I don't really see really really young patients. I'm usually taking patients who've gone to see a lot of different doctors either for problems with. implant-related issues or chronic inflammation issues, or patients who've found me and want to have a holistic mommy makeover instead of a traditional mommy makeover because they don't like the scarring, they're worried about the downtime. Hey, Jenna. Um, so overall, can you take someone who's been deemed, you know, too thin by someone else in a consultation and explain ways to get enough fat to utilize. Now, you're never going to get the same amount as you would on patients who have higher BMIs, more areas of fat, but you still can get usable fat.
