Dr. Robert Whitfield explains why surgeons say patients aren't candidates for fat transfer. The procedure demands more skill than implants because it requires harvesting, processing, and precise placement of your own fat. Lack of donor sites can genuinely disqualify you, but often it's just the surgeon's inexperience.
You know, if a surgeon told you that fat transfer won't work for you, I want you to consider something else that might sting a little. It might not be about your body. Fat transfer is a harder, longer operation. It requires harvesting, processing, and then placing with real technique the fat you harvested. An implant is obviously faster, more predictable. So when a surgeon says you're not a candidate, sometimes that's true. Some patients genuinely don't have the donor sites, but a lot of the time what it actually means is, this isn't what I do, I'm not experienced, whatever. And that's a fair thing for somebody to say to you because that's appropriate. So this Thursday night at 7 PM Eastern, 6 PM Central, I'm going live on who's actually a candidate, how much volume can be realistic even in low BMI fat transfers, and really what determines whether the fat survives. So comment volume for the link, it's free to sign up.
