Dr. Robert Whitfield explains how autologous fat transfer has become routine in plastic surgery. He performs about 100 breast fat grafting cases yearly, using liposuction fat to augment breasts and contour the body. Success depends on the patient and where fat is injected.
About 100 cases per year (over the past five years).
Can I take some fat from my waist and can I make a breast larger?
Yes. I think one of the paramount things that's changed in plastic surgery, all these new inventions come along, but one of the things that's fundamentally changed our profession is use of fat. You know, years ago, people weren't putting it in faces after facelifts. Years ago, people weren't adding it like they are adding it now or taking it away from places. I see it as a real tool. Yeah. I've done about a hundred fat grafting cases to the breast per year over the past five years. I've refined our harvesting the fat, our processing of the fat, our reinjection of the fat. The only variable that changes in that is the patient's. So you can always narrow waist with liposuction, but when you transfer the fat back to the patient and the breast site in particular, it depends on the breast site.
