Dr. Robert Whitfield explains how fat transfer breast augmentation works using a patient's own tissue from the abdomen, thighs, or back. The key is injecting harvested fat into the subcutaneous layer directly above existing breast tissue, not into the breast itself or muscle, which mirrors the approach used for buttock augmentation.
One of my favorite things to talk about is fat transfer. So let's approach that now. I think it's a really underutilized way to augment the breast. I know there's all of this talk now about cadaver fat, but it really is not going to become part of my practice. This is a natural autologous treatment, so I prefer it. Fat transfer begins with obviously removal of fat from the donor areas. And these are kind of standardized for us, but they include the abdomen, the love handle area, the mid-back, the bra fat area, the inner outer thighs. You can do arms, you just have to be very careful with them. It is not placed after you acquire the fat back into the old pocket, it's placed beneath the skin above the fat. Think of breast augmentation and buttock augmentation. Subtract the breast tissue out, and they're fatty layers over muscles. Here in the breast area, we have to be above the breast, not in it, and we don't want to be in the muscle in either of those operations.
