Robert Whitfield MD compares breast implants and fat transfer, noting that younger patients often want implants while older patients typically have more usable fat and more surgical options. Your expectations and motivations determine which works best for you.
20. Well, there's always two big spikes. There's the people who were younger and didn't develop. And so in that earlier group, 18 to 25, there's going to be a big bump of people who get them. And that goes back to our discussion. You know, could some of those had a fat transfer and been happy. So it's really boils down to like, what is the expectation visually you're trying to achieve? Why are you trying to achieve that? You know, it goes back to that thing we talked about earlier. Like someone asked me, you know, what would I say to my daughter? I'm like, my daughter is a Leo like me and she's stubborn and if she just sat there and decided I want implants, you, I, everybody I know couldn't call her and change her mind. Like they're going to do what they're going to do. Is it easier when you're older to probably handle that as a life decision? Sure. There are a lot more options though. As we age, we usually gain more weight. So we do have more usable fat at that point for fat transfer. Okay. It's also usually after breastfeeding, you know, if there's tissue, it's easier to do a lift and add fat. There's examples of that in our work. And I've hired another surgeon like we talked about, Dr. Chung to help because I'm just one person. So we got to have more help, more like minded people.
