Dr. Robert Whitfield explains where fat transfer goes in breast augmentation: in the thin fatty plane under skin, never directly into breast tissue, which causes cysts. Most implants sit behind the pectoral muscle, so transferred fat goes in front. Typical transfer is 200 to 400 cubic centimeters.
The breast, if you think of it, it's a much smaller surface area on the chest. And so I always think of it like you're. You have a pocket on the front of his shirt. You can only feel that with so much before either things start coming out of the pocket or tears or something like that. So beneath the skin, but above the breast tissue is the fatty plane on the chest and where the, the breast is. And so that's where fat belongs. It doesn't go inside the breast. You don't inject fat into the breast. That will make cysts. It can cause problems. The fat doesn't go where you typically are removing an implant from because most of the implants placed in North America are typically behind the muscle. You don't want to put fat in there. You want to put the muscle back down, try to get it in its anatomic position. And so typically you're transferring anywhere between, you know, 200 to 400cc's depending on the size of the breast.
