Dr. Robert Whitfield explains fat grafting in three steps: harvesting fat gently from thighs, flanks, and abdomen using closed-system instruments; processing it with vibration to remove blood and debris; then injecting the purified fat into the subcutaneous layer between skin and breast tissue, never into implant pockets or breast tissue itself.
One, you know, when we harvest fat, we take it from somewhere. Typically, think of like the inner outer thighs, the flank area, the love handle area, the abdomen. We use techniques that are meant to carefully remove the cells. We use specific sized instrumentation for this. And it's not liposuction where you're just debulking and throwing away. You want to protect— The cells keep them in a closed environment. That way you can process them and return them safely. So that processing is done really to separate the fat from the fluids you use and from blood or any other materials or ruptured tissue debris. And all of that, you know, we want to separate. We do that through a vibration process, and ultimately we're trying to. Get the fluid, the products away from the fat. And then the third part is placement. And so the placement's important. So it doesn't go where an implant was before, if you had an implant. It doesn't go in the breast tissue. It goes between the skin and the breast tissue in the fatty plane.
