A doctor explains how fat grafting uses your own body's healing power to treat implant complications and radiation damage. The procedure works by transferring fat to rebuild tissue and manage scar capsules around implants.
You know, the body is smarter than the doctors are, and if we learn how to harness these intrinsic components, you know, we can do a lot more healing with that sometimes than we can, you know, with a knife or a suture. So fat connecting for me came from treating radiated patients. And then in later years, an appreciation for problems with implant capsules, not just in the reconstructive patient, but definitely in the cosmetic world. And how to properly manage capsules for patients that had implant related complications.
