Breast Augmentation Via Fat Transfer
Listen up, “the jury’s in!” says the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Liposuctioned fat can be used effectively for breast augmentation. This was the conclusion of a study of 50 patients presented at the annual conference of the ASPS held in Seattle last month.
Why is this study so potentially significant? The reasons are so numerous it’s hard to know where to start.
Breast augmentation is the most popular cosmetic procedure, according to the ASPS, with over 300,000 surgeries performed in 2008. But today’s silicone and saline implants, although they’re some of the most tested and improved of all medical devices and generally considered very safe, still have their potential issues. A good plastic surgeon will tell you breast implants cannot be expected to last a lifetime. The notion of using one’s own tissue for breast enhancement instead of a fallible foreign object is compelling indeed.
In addition, the ASPS study found that the fat had an 85% survival rate within the breast. It has long been thought that re-absorption by the body is a frequent occurrence, and/or that fat removed by suction is treated so roughly that it is not likely to remain healthy.
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