Dr. Robert Whitfield uses fat transfer to improve breast reconstruction after cancer surgery, placing tiny 4mm fat parcels under the skin to restore fullness and fix asymmetry. He performs about 150 of these procedures yearly, building on Dr. Rigotti's work with radiation-damaged tissue.
Your acquisition of fat matters. So the technique, um, we take kind of a specific size of fat around 4 millimeters all the time, and then I place it beneath the skin but above the breast tissue. I don't place it anywhere else because I want it in the fatty space because that's biologically where it should go. I've done this for cancer patients to improve contour irregularities, restore the upper pole fullness and soften it, especially if they had an implant-based reconstruction. Dr. Rigotti was really famous for the work he did on wounds, especially radiation wounds and radiation-injured tissues, usually from obviously cancer treatments. And then the fat can also be used in asymmetry cases to provide better symmetry. And for many of my breast cancer patients. So I did probably 150 transfers a year just for breast cancer. It really helps with, uh, contour irregularities. So think of somebody who's underwent a mastectomy and a reconstruction.
