Dr. Jean Loftus is a double board-certified plastic
surgeon and is a national authority on plastic surgery. She has
appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and The Today Show, as a vocal advocate
of safety, conscientiousness, and honesty in plastic surgery.
Her book, The
Smart Woman's Guide to Plastic Surgery, is
the #1 best-selling book in the country on plastic surgery. This
book is available online at
amazon.com,
bn.com and
borders.com.
Dr.
Loftus has offices in Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. Visit
her website at
www.infoplasticsurgery.com. To schedule a consultation,
you may contact her offices at (513) 793-4000 or (859) 426-5000.
Dr. Loftus just loves getting questions and posting answers. To
submit your question, please follow the link at the bottom of
this page. Even if you just want to send her a comment, she'd
love to hear from you.
Q:
I
wear a 34AA bra and want breast enlargement. The
surgeon I saw recommended that I have liposuction and then have
the fat injected into my breasts. The photos he showed were very
impressive and natural. Should I have this done, and why is this
technique less popular than implants? Thank you.
Dr.
Loftus Answers: Beware! Fat injection of the breast is not
advised for breast augmentation because of long-term problems
that this technique may cause. The injected fat particles can
attract calcium deposits, which, on mammogram can be easily confused
with breast cancer. Understand that the fat does not cause breast
cancer, but it can make the breast appear as though it has microscopic
breast cancer on mammogram.
So, if you have fat injection in your breast and develop calcifications,
you and your doctors may not be able to tell if the calcifications
are from cancer or your fat injection. In order to prove they
are from the fat, you may need one or more breast biopsies, which
you presumably would not have needed otherwise.
Alternatively, what if you do develop breast cancer amidst all
of your fat calcifications? A new cancer would be harder to detect
and might go undiagnosed because you and your doctors might assume
that it is just more calcifications from the fat. For these reasons,
fat injection for breast augmentation is strongly discouraged
by most reputable surgeons.
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