Liposuction News : Trendlet - Liposuction then Relocation

The latest kind of recycling entails liposuctioning fat from, say, thighs or buttocks and injecting it into breasts to augment them. After being condemned in the early '90s, this procedure is generating newfound excitement among the handful of doctors nationwide who offer it and patients keen to enlarge their breasts without resorting to implants. Almost 20 years ago, the association now known as the American Society of Plastic Surgeons issued a warning to its member doctors not to inject suctioned fat into patients' breasts, for fear that mammograms would be misread. A second concern was that too little injected fat survived being transplanted, because techniques for harvesting, refining and placing fat were not advanced enough. Even today, the success of fat grafting to the breast depends on the physician. But this year, the plastic surgery society reversed its position. A report from its task force reviewed the limited research on fat grafting to the breast and concluded that it "can be considered a safe method of augmentation." On the issue of mammography, the report said fat grafting "could potentially interfere with breast cancer detection; however, no evidence was found that strongly suggests this interference." The task force's statement: Proceed with caution. And so some have. "The best way to create a normal breast is to use your body's own tissue," said Dr. Sydney Coleman, a Manhattan plastic surgeon who is an advocate of fat grafting. So much so that he no longer offers breast implants.

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