Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Would a Fat Transfer to My Breasts Create Problems with Future Mammograms?

29 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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Fat transfer to breasts doesn't interfere with mammograms because the fat is placed above the breast tissue, not inside it. Robert Whitfield MD, who performs over 150 of these procedures yearly, says decades of clinical data confirm this. Possible minor complications include fat necrosis and oil cysts, but outcomes depend on practitioner skill and equipment.

Questions this video answers

No—he states 'wholeheartedly no' and that science has evaluated this.

Between the skin of the breast and above the breast tissue (in the fatty plane).

Some fat may not survive leading to slight firmness, fat necrosis, or an oil cyst.

Over 150 fat transfers per year.

For well over a decade.

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If I'm doing a fat transfer, there's a great deal of concern due to breast cancer screening. Is this going to create a problem with my mammogram? And so my answer is wholeheartedly no. This was studied extensively and has been done in breast cancer patients for decades. So we need to stop with the Google research and the Facebook group research. And just science has already evaluated this. The fat is put between the skin of the breast and above the breast tissue. That's where the fatty plane in every breast is. It's different in everybody, but that's where it goes. We don't stick it inside the breast because that would make cysts. Now, of course, little bits of fat could not survive the transfer process. They could become slightly firm. You could even get a little oil cyst it. These are also not complicated issues. If you speak to your practitioner and their experience in understanding this. Having done over 150 fat transfers per year for breast cancer patients for well over a decade, I've seen all those problems. Taking care of all those problems. Many things have to do with the experience of the practitioner and how they're providing the fat transfer. So we use the best available equipment. We have a Wells Johnson fat transfer machine.