Breast Augmentation and Reconstruction with Fat Transfer

Roger Khouri, MD, FACS explains how fat transfer works for breast reconstruction and augmentation. After a 5 year 50 patient study results show that fat transfer is effective for natural breast augmentation and reconstruction.

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[text on screen]: With better understanding and our technique… …we can now transfer fat from unwanted areas of the body to the breast

Roger Khouri MD, FACS: We are presenting the results of a five years, fifty patients study which proves that using our technique, fat grafting to the breast, is a safe and effective breast augmentation alternative.We begin with gentle liposuction to harvest healthy fat droplets from where the patient has excess fat to spare. It is important to create a big enough scaffold that will allow a large number of fat droplets to flourish. We cannot just put a big blob. A big blob of fat will not take. That's the problem with previous attempts at doing this operation. They were just injecting big blobs of fat. We are injecting tiny droplets all along these lines, a cc at a time. The idea is to inject the fat along multiple planes, multiple angles, so you want to diffuse the injection. I've developed a device called the Brava, that when worn for a few hours a day over a period of a few weeks will generate that necessary scaffold. Now that we understand how to make fat grafting work, we applied the science to breast augmentation. As a result, not only do the patients get larger, natural breasts. They also get the benefits of liposuction.

[text on screen] For more information: www.Brava.com. Roger Khouri, MD, FACS. 305-MIA-HAND.