Dr. Robert Whitfield compares breast lifts, implants, and fat grafting. Implants under 200 cc add roughly one cup size. Fat grafting works only in the layer under skin, so it can't replace large implants like a 400 cc one.
You can reshape the breast tissue. Yeah, you can reshape it. You can add volume. Many patients I see probably could have had a breast lift and that would have served them well versus a small implant. Small implants that are under like. Oh, I've taken some out recently that were really small, under 200cc. So cup size is roughly 200cc's if you want to think of it that way. So you have to weigh the risks and benefits of doing that, of having an implant. So.
How much? So let's say somebody has a breast implant of 400 cc's, right? How much? If you took that out, how much fat could you get from someone and like, I guess, restructure that? Like, would they. How much different in size would they be?
You know.
If you removed that and tried to fix it more naturally, can you do that? Is there like a max amount that you can do? Does it depend on the size of the person?
It's a combination of their skin stretch and the size of the breast. The, the fat goes in the fatty compartment, which is underneath our skin, above the breast tissue. It's not in the breast tissue and it's not where you took the implant at. So just like a shirt on the front pocket, on the front of a shirt. Think of that as like beneath the skin. That's where the fat goes.
