Dr. Robert Whitfield revises a botched breast augmentation where asymmetric implants failed. He removed them, performed a lift to improve skin symmetry, and the patient is waiting 6-12 months before fat transfer to address remaining volume differences.
I always used to tell folks who were getting an augmentation that if you were asymmetric to begin with, you're going to look even more asymmetric with an augmentation because it's going to cause differences to be more noticeable. Now, she had a big volumetric difference, and the choice made by the provider at that time was asymmetric silicone, which you can do, but it didn't really give her a much better aesthetic result. So I went ahead and did her removal today. I did a lift procedure and gave her better overall symmetry from, like, the skin perspective, but she still has a volume asymmetry, and we did not do a fat transfer today. She wanted to. To wait and do something like that later on down the road, either at six months or. Or a year. She just wanted to get feeling better. So that's kind of how a day will flow for us. And or typically do two to four cases. It just depends on the day, but on average, typically 3. We have longer days when we do bigger fat transfer cases, so we usually just do a couple of those.
