Dr. Robert Whitfield says many surgeons wrongly reject thin patients for fat transfer breast augmentation without proper evaluation. He uses a comprehensive approach including explant removal, lifts, and fat from other body areas, rather than telling patients to gain 15-20 pounds or get implants.
If you've ever been told you're too skinny for fat transfer, I hear that routinely, and it's usually wrong. I've had patients come to me after being told by another surgeon or multiple surgeons that there was nothing to work with, that they had to keep implants, or that they had to accept being small after having children, just being flat, or the other alternative that was often told the patients is you need to gain 15 to 20 pounds and then you'd become a candidate. And in most of those cases, that assessment was on a limited physical exam and it was premature. So that's where we're starting tonight. I'm Dr. Whitfield, a board-certified plastic surgeon. I'm here in Austin, Texas. We're live streaming tonight, and most of what we do is holistic transformations. For patients, we do explants, we do explants with lifts, we do explants with fat transfers, or explants, lifts, and fat transfers. We do holistic mommy makeovers where we simply take fat from other areas and rejuvenate the breast with that, with or without a lift.
