What is Breast Fat Transfer?
Fat transfer is a procedure that uses gentle, low-suction to harvest fat from areas where there is excess or unwanted fat. The fat is washed, filtered, and prepared for injection into the breast. It’s an ideal method for achieving a natural increase in breast size while maintaining a soft, and mobile breast that looks and feels entirely normal. Breast with fat transfer techniques provide a natural alternative to implants for patients seeking subtle, organic enhancement. Fat transfer is also ideal for correcting localised breast asymmetries especially after breast conserving surgery
It is particularly beneficial in cases of asymmetry, allowing for more nuanced volumisation to achieve symmetry and balance. In some cases, breast fat transfer and lift may be combined to achieve improved shape, position, and projection for a rejuvenated, balanced contour.
Breast fat transfer and breast augmentation procedures can also be considered for women who wish to enhance the upper pole or cleavage area rather than increase the entire breast volume. This approach allows refinement and precision when sculpting the breast’s natural shape.
Dr. Rozina Ali, a renowned female plastic surgeon, has long advocated that “fat is the future”. The transfer of tissue rich in stem cells to naturally enhance tissues has a positive effect on the quality of the overlying skin due to the rich source of adult mesenchymal stem cells.
Who would benefit from breast fat transfer?
Those who are well-informed, with realistic expectations looking for a 1 or 1.5 cup size enhancement in breast volumeand prefer natural looking, feeling, moving breasts and minimal scars are ideal candidates for this treatment. It is suitable for those wishing for a natural alternative to breast implants or to improve asymmetry and achieve a moderate increase in breast size. Individuals do need to have sufficient excess fat elsewhere on the body (e.g. in their thighs, flanks, abdomen) or to consider staged, serial fat transfer over two or three procedures.
Your Fat Transfer Journey
The Consultation
Dr Rozina Ali and her team will take the time to deeply understand your individual goals and consider all the factors that may influence the outcome. This vital stage of the process not only provides an opportunity to address any questions or concerns, but also enables us to develop a treatment plan, personalised to your needs and preferred outcomes.
Your Treatment
Fat transfer is a meticulous multi-stepped process: firstly, fat needs to be carefully harvested in a process that is superficially similar to liposuction but designed to ensure that the fat cells are harvested gently, alive and undamaged. Each fat cell or adipocyte is accompanied by a supply of stem cells found near the small subcutaneous blood vessels. A tumescent or wet technique and mechanical power assisted (vibrating) liposuction device is used to dislodge the fat and float out intact living fat cells using only low suction pressures. In this way the fat cells and stem cells are harvested healthy, intact and viable.
Next, the harvested fat is washed, filtered and purified, then prepared in small 10–20ml aliquots for careful re-injection under low pressure into the tissues around the breast gland. This approach is part of the refined fat transfer breast augmentation process. The procedure can be offered under local anesthetic or under general anesthetic depending on the volume of fat required and the areas of fat harvest.
The actual injection or lipofilling is usually carried out in the same procedure, but very recently, it has become viable to reinject stored aliquots of fat into various sites on an outpatient basis over any frequency or length of time.
Your Aftercare
A surgical compression garment is provided for the fat donor site , usually the abdomen or thighs, occasionally upper arms or back fat. A first stage, post-operative, fat transfer bra is offered to support the breasts without compressing the blood supply to the transferred fat. Mild swelling and bruising may be experienced in both the recipient and donor sites. Discomfort can be managed with oral over-the-counter painkillers and rest. Strenuous activity should be avoided in the immediate recovery period and normal activities may be resumed within a few weeks after the procedure.
Where will the treatment take place?
With operating facilities in such prestigious locations as King Edward VII hospital and the Weymouth Street hospital in Marylebone, the heart of London’s Harley Street medical district, you can be assured of expert and responsive surgical care. Wound checks and outpatient visits are offered in both Marylebone and Kensington around several sites in the sumptuous Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Rozina Ali Practice offers best in class, bespoke aesthetic treatments tailored to your individual needs.
Fat Transfer Costs
For full details of the fat transplant breast cost, please contact Dr Rozina Ali’s Kensington based clinic by email practice@rozinaali.com or call 0207 000 3140 or contact us via the form below.
