Dr. Rob Whitfield explains how fat transfer procedures work and why safety matters. He harvests fat from thighs, flanks, and abdomen, then uses a closed sterile system to process it. Brazilian butt lifts have caused deaths in Miami and Los Angeles, but modern techniques protect the fat from air exposure throughout the procedure.
I mean, I know what it is, but I think it's important because you explain it so well. Yeah, but I want to make sure that they understand what the, the actual ask, you know, to you is. Would you do a fat transfer after the X-ray?
And everybody can look up— I wrote a safety paper about fat transfer to the buttocks when people in Miami and Los Angeles were dying from fat transfers to the buttocks, which is called the Brazilian butt lift. So fat transfers are not new. They've been around over 100 years. Now the way which we harvest the fat has changed. The way in which we process the fat or contain the fat has changed. And the way we deliver it back to the recipient site has changed. The predominant places we take fat from in my practice are from the inner and outer thigh area, the love handle or flank area, and of course abdomens. Those are special instances. And then when we put it back, Dr. Fab— so we acquire it with a certain system. We use Wells Johnson, which is specifically designed to harvest fat. It's contained sterilely. It's never exposed to the air in the room.
