Breast Reconstruction
Fat Grafting
Soft, natural refinement to beautifully complete your reconstruction journey.
WHAT IS FAT GRAFTING
A gentle approach to perfecting your natural contours.
Healing and rebuilding your shape is a journey, and sometimes your breast reconstruction needs a gentle, finishing touch.
Fat grafting is an advanced, highly specialized technique that uses your body’s own natural tissue to beautifully refine your results. During this outpatient procedure, our surgeons carefully harvest a small amount of fat from areas like your abdomen, thighs, or hips using gentle liposuction.
This fat is then expertly prepared in the operating room and delicately placed into the breast to smooth out concavities, address thin skin overlying an implant, or add natural volume. Once the grafted fat establishes a new blood supply, it survives in its new location, offering a soft, permanent improvement to your chest contour that lasts a lifetime.
WHAT IS FAT GRAFTING
A gentle approach to perfecting your natural contours.
Healing and rebuilding your shape is a journey, and sometimes your breast reconstruction needs a gentle, finishing touch.
Fat grafting is an advanced, highly specialized technique that uses your body’s own natural tissue to beautifully refine your results. During this outpatient procedure, Dr. Kania carefully harvests a small amount of fat from areas like your abdomen, thighs, or hips using gentle liposuction.
This fat is then expertly prepared in the operating room and delicately placed into the breast to smooth out concavities, address thin skin overlying an implant, or add natural volume. Once the grafted fat establishes a new blood supply, it survives in its new location, offering a soft, permanent improvement to your chest contour that lasts a lifetime.
TAILORING YOUR CARE
Versatile, natural solutions for a beautiful outcome.
Because fat grafting relies entirely on your own natural tissue, it is an incredibly safe and reliable technique. Whether you have implants or flap reconstruction, we can use this method to ensure your final result feels completely comfortable and beautifully authentic.
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REFINING IMPLANT RECONSTRUCTION
Softening and Smoothing
If you have implant-based reconstruction, fat grafting can be used to beautifully soften the transition between the implant and your natural chest. It is especially helpful for improving areas of concavity along the upper and inner areas of the breast, or adding cushion to thin skin over an implant.
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ENHANCING NATURAL TISSUE (FLAPS)
Perfecting Your Contour
For patients who have had natural-tissue flap reconstruction, a small volume of grafted fat can expertly fill in minor concavities or dips. If you desire a slightly fuller shape, larger volumes of fat can also be safely utilized to beautifully augment the overall size of your reconstructed breast.
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STANDALONE RECONSTRUCTION
Building Volume Naturally
In some specific cases, fat grafting alone can be used to entirely reconstruct a small-volume breast. This approach is gentle and completely natural, though it typically requires multiple, staged fat grafting procedures to gradually and safely build up to your desired volume.
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RADIATION RECOVERY
Restoring Skin Health
Radiation therapy can sometimes leave the skin on your chest feeling tight or damaged. Because transferred fat is rich in natural, healthy cells, grafting it beneath the skin can beautifully improve the quality and softness of radiated tissue, bringing relief and comfort.
WHY FAT GRAFTING
A natural finishing touch for your peace of mind.
Our goal is to ensure you feel entirely happy, comfortable, and confident in your final results. Fat grafting offers a beautifully natural way to perfect your reconstruction so you can fully embrace your body.
A Natural Solution
Because the procedure relies entirely on your own living tissue, the results are incredibly soft, warm, and feel just like a natural breast.
Targeted Contouring
By harvesting fat with liposuction, we can gently contour common donor sites like the abdomen, hips, or thighs while simultaneously enhancing your breast.
Long-Lasting Results
Once the newly transferred fat settles and establishes a healthy blood supply in the breast, the beautiful results are permanent and designed to last a lifetime.
Outpatient Convenience
This refining technique is typically performed as a safe, straightforward outpatient procedure, allowing you to recover comfortably in your own home.
FAQ
Answers to help guide your decisions.
We know this process comes with a lot of questions, and it is completely normal to want as much information as possible. Here are a few common answers to help get you started.