A breast surgeon explains autologous fat transfer, which uses your own fat for reconstruction after cancer or cosmetic augmentation. Fat is harvested from love handles, thighs, or abdomen, then purified in a closed system before injection back into the breast.
My whole career, I took care of cancer patients, especially breast cancer patients, because it's such a prevalent cancer. And whether it's a breast cancer patient or a cosmetic patient, one of the most elegant and biologically intelligent procedures is to perform fat transfer. You know, we're not adding something artificial to the body. We are just restoring it using your own biology, which is your fat. So fat transfer is a process where we remove fat. So today I did two fat transfers from different areas of the body. Common areas are the love handle area, the inner and outer thigh area, and abdomens. Of course, I get asked a lot to do arms. I'll explain why I don't do that later. We collect the fat with special instrumentation that's just focused on fat. Hard harvest for fat transfer. We then contain the fat in a canister so it's not out in the open. And we use a vibration plate to separate the fluid and everything from the fat. And then in that closed system, after everything's been separated, we can put it back. So we like to do that because it's. It's transplanting your own tissue.
