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Understanding Fat Transfer Breast Augmentation

Fat transfer breast augmentation is a revolutionary new technique for breast augmentation that utilizes your body’s own fat to create enhanced curves and a more alluring bust. This procedure involves Dr. Shermak moving fat from one area of your body to your breasts, where it enhances their size, shape, and projection. Not only does this procedure have the benefit of naturally augmenting your breasts, but it also works to slim down a “problem” area—like the abdomen, thighs, or back—through liposuction. If you’d like to learn more about how fat transfer breast augmentation can help you enjoy an enhanced sense of self-confidence, reach out to Dr. Shermak’s team in Baltimore and set up your initial consultation today.

Breast Augmentation Without Implants

Thanks to fat transfer breast augmentation, your breasts can now be enhanced with fat removed from a region on your own body—such as the abdomen, back, inner or outer thighs, or arms—and transferred to the breasts through scars that will barely be visible once your recovery period is over. This is a fairly conservative method of augmentation, with most patients seeing an increase in size of about one-half to one cup size. 

Worth noting is that the ultimate size of your breasts will not be fully predictable with fat transfer breast augmentation, as some of the fat may be absorbed by your body and disappear. Patients are typically able to see between 70% and 100% of the transferred fat remaining after their fat transfer breast augmentation, and multiple surgical fat transfers may be performed to increase the size outcome.

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Am I the Ideal Candidate?

Good candidates are women interested in the improvement of visible edges around reconstructive or cosmetic implants or women who desire a minimal to moderate increase in bust size without resorting to traditional breast implants. Fat transfer breast enhancement utilizes your own tissues, making it a safe and natural alternative to implant-based breast augmentation. During your consultation, Dr. Shermak will get to know you and your personal goals and help you decide whether or not fat transfer breast augmentation is the right choice for you.

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The Benefits of Fat Transfer Breast Augmentation

  • Increased breast volume
  • A fuller, rounder, more lifted look without implants
  • An improved natural appearance, thanks to increased coverage and contour in the cleavage
  • The ability to approximate fullness with natural fat after deciding to remove implants
  • A more attractive, youthful appearance
  • Optimal body contours in another region
  • Minimal post-procedural scarring
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About Fat Transfer Breast Augmentation

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Your Fat Transfer Breast Augmentation Options

Breast Augmentation & Asymmetry Correction

This fat transfer option provides natural-looking and -feeling breast enhancement without implants. Breast asymmetry and tuberous breasts can be difficult to correct with implants alone, but fat transfer provides excellent correction for breast asymmetry. Fat transfer can be used alone or in conjunction with implants, providing the added benefit of liposuction in areas of your choice, such as the abdomen, flanks, or thighs.

Implant Revision With Fat

Because breast implants don’t last forever, they do sometimes need to be removed or replaced. Fat transfer is an outstanding implant replacement option because it provides natural, long-term augmentation and enables patients to avoid the need for replacement implants at a future date. Breast implant revision using fat transfer can also allow patients to maintain or even increase their breast size, with a more naturalistic outcome.

Fat Transfer Augmentation With Lift

This procedure allows patients to achieve fuller, lifted, youthful-looking, and attractive breasts by combining fat transfer augmentation with a breast lift procedure.

Designing Your Customized Treatment Plan

The way you look and feel directly affects your self-confidence. In addition to treating Baltimore breast fat transfer patients, Dr. Shermak takes care of many Baltimore abdominoplasty, body lift, and facial plastic surgery patients. Please visit these pages to learn more about the other cosmetic procedures offered.

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Preparing for Surgery

Prior to surgery, health status should be optimized as much as possible without embarking on a brand-new lifestyle. A healthy diet, exercise, and vitamins are great to aid in proper healing. Dr. Shermak requires smokers to stop smoking for at least three months. Dr. Shermak may also ask you to have a mammogram prior to your surgery, definitely if you are over 40 years of age and have not had a mammogram in over a year.

For the week prior to your surgery, stop taking aspirin and specific anti-inflammatory drugs or supplements. These drugs and supplements thin the blood and can cause oozing during your procedure, so it’s important to stop taking them before your surgery.

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Recovery After Surgery

Fat transfer breast augmentation surgery is performed on an outpatient basis. After the procedure, you may experience temporary discomfort, swelling, or numbness. Most women resume regular activity within a week. You may require a binder or a girdle with some foam padding to assure a nice, smooth result. As time passes, some fat does get absorbed, possibly up to 50%. Liposuction results are unaffected and permanent with proper diet and exercise.

Recovery after fat transfer breast augmentation as a stand-alone procedure is quick. After allowing for about four days to allow medications from surgery to be excreted from your body, you will be able to drive and start doing your regular non-exertional activities. Within two weeks, you should be back at the gym, living with your regular routine. You’ll be given a thorough recovery timeline before the actual date of your procedure.

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Fat Transfer FAQ

What is the cost of fat transfer surgery?

What are reasonable expectations with augmentation of the breast with fat?

How long will it be until I can return to work after breast fat transfer?

How long should I wait until I drive again after my breast augmentation fat transfer?

When can I exercise again after fat transfer breast augmentation?

How long does the fat transfer last?

What procedures can I combine with fat-transfer breast augmentation?

How much can you increase breast size with fat transfer?

Are fat transfers safer than implants?

Do the results of a breast fat transfer feel natural?

How much fat do you need for fat-transfer breast augmentation?

Do you need more than one procedure for breast fat transfer?

What is the cost of fat transfer surgery?

The cost of breast augmentation with fat transfer varies from patient to patient, based on each individual’s needs, associated procedures, and size goals. Your specific procedural costs will depend on how much fat will need to be transferred and whether you would like to have more liposuction than what is required for the fat transfer to your breasts or other procedures, like implant placement or removal.

Patients may want to harvest fat from a single area of their body or from multiple sites. The extent of liposuction will affect both the amount of surgical time and the cost of the treatment. The cost of natural fat-transfer breast augmentation is $7,500 to $8,000.

What are reasonable expectations with augmentation of the breast with fat?

Your breast size may increase up to one cup size, but no more. Breast augmentation through a fat transfer particularly improves the upper part of the breast, creating better harmony between the breast and chest. Some women undergo two or three treatments to get larger size outcomes.

How long will it be until I can return to work after breast fat transfer?

You’ll want to wait one week before returning to work after your fat transfer.

How long should I wait until I drive again after my breast augmentation fat transfer?

We advise that you wait for five to seven days before driving again after breast fat transfer.

When can I exercise again after fat transfer breast augmentation?

You should wait for two weeks before you engage in light exercise, and wait for four weeks before engaging in more strenuous exercise.

How long does the fat transfer last?

As long as you maintain a stable weight, your final results will last for years and may be considered permanent.

What procedures can I combine with fat-transfer breast augmentation?

Fat transfer breast augmentation can be combined with a tummy tuck, more extensive liposuction, or a facelift.

How much can you increase breast size with fat transfer?

One session of fat grafting can help you increase your breasts by one to one-and-a-half cup sizes.

Are fat transfers safer than implants?

Fat transfer is considered to be a safer option than breast implant surgery.

Do the results of a breast fat transfer feel natural?

One of the best benefits of breast fat transfer is the fact that the results feel and look completely natural, the way your natural breasts typically would, only they will be larger, rounder, and fuller.

How much fat do you need for fat-transfer breast augmentation?

Dr. Shermak will need to harvest at least 1,000 milliliters of pure fat or about two and a half pounds.

Do you need more than one procedure for breast fat transfer?

While one procedure is enough for many patients, others may require four to six sessions to achieve their ideal results.

A Word from Dr. Shermak

Natural Breast Augmentation, an Alternative to Breast Implant Augmentation

Many women pursue breast augmentation to help improve proportions in the body and rejuvenate breasts that may have deflated from either pregnancy or weight loss. Traditionally breast augmentation was only performed with breast implants, either gel- or saline-filled. Now there is a different option: fat! Fat may be suctioned out of one or multiple body areas and moved into the breast to provide enhanced size and appearance. Fat transfer may be performed as a primary augmentation method, as a boost to the cleavage in breast lift, or to refresh and fill the breast after implant removal.

How Is This Done?

First, you would come in for a consultation, where I will review your medical and surgical history, as well as your personal and family breast history. A physical examination of the breasts, including measurements, helps me to identify the best options to meet the aesthetic goals you’ve brought with you. Fat transfer typically will allow for an increase of one half to a full cup size. The fat not only provides nice volume but also a stem cell effect that improves the appearance of the nipple and skin. 

The fat volume that may be moved into the breast is paradoxically limited by the baseline breast size. If there is a desire or greater need for a larger degree of increase, multiple fat transfer sessions may be planned, or implants might provide a better option. I will identify sites in the torso and extremities from which fat can be suctioned, even in thin women.

The surgery is performed under general anesthesia. The duration of the surgery is typically no longer than two to three hours, depending on the fat donor sites. The procedure is performed as an outpatient procedure, and the downtime is short (typically no more than one week). I tell my patients they will likely expect to return to normal exertional physical activities two weeks after surgery.

Fat transfer provides a wonderful option for women looking to naturally freshen and enhance their breast appearance while benefiting from fat removal of the torso or extremities, a “win-win,” without depending on Breast Implants.

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Discover Your Ideal Figure without Breast Implants

Are you ready to learn more about what fat transfer breast augmentation can do for you? Dr. Shermak has spent years earning a reputation for excellence in Baltimore and around the world, and she’s excited to learn more about what she can do for you to help you realize your body contouring goals and leave you with the silhouette you’ve been dreaming of. When you’re ready to get started, reach out to Dr. Shermak’s team and set up your initial consultation today.

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