Enhance your breast shape and symmetry with breast fat grafting, a natural option to restore volume, correct asymmetry, or refine results after surgery. Dr. Kasandra Dassoulas expertly transfers your own fat to ensure beautiful, lasting results.
Restore Symmetry Using Your Own Fat
Breast fat grafting, also known as autologous fat transfer, is a natural breast enhancement technique that uses your body fat to add volume, improve symmetry, or refine breast contours. Dr. Dassoulas carefully harvests fat from areas like the abdomen, thighs, or flanks using gentle liposuction. The purified fat is strategically injected into the breasts to achieve a smooth, natural look and feel. This is ideal for subtle enhancement, correcting irregularities, or complementing other breast surgeries with minimal scarring.
Breast Fat Grafting Treats:
- Asymmetry between the breasts
- Loss of breast volume after weight loss, pregnancy, or aging
- Irregularities or contour deformities from previous breast surgeries
- Breast shape irregularities after implant-based augmentation or reconstruction
- Visible implant edges or rippling issues
Combine Breast Fat Grafting With Implants
While fat grafting offers natural enhancement and contour refinement, it has limitations in achieving a significant increase in breast size. Fat transfer alone provides a modest boost in volume, making it ideal for subtle changes but not a dramatic transformation. Patients seeking a fuller cup size or a more pronounced enhancement may benefit from combining it with implants.
When paired with breast implants, fat grafting can deliver both the size and the softness you desire. Implants provide the primary volume increase, while the transferred fat smooths edges, enhances cleavage, and creates a more natural slope. This combination is especially effective for camouflaging implant rippling, improving symmetry, and fine-tuning contours. Dr. Dassoulas uses advanced techniques to blend the two methods seamlessly, ensuring your results feel soft, look balanced, and complement your body’s proportions.
Benefits of Breast Fat Grafting:
- Uses your own natural fat: no synthetic implants required
- Provides subtle, natural-looking enhancement
- Improves breast symmetry and shape
- Can refine results after breast augmentation or reconstruction
- Minimal scarring from small liposuction and injection sites
- Enhances other body areas by removing unwanted fat
- Soft, natural feel that blends with existing breast tissue
- Lower risk of allergic reaction or implant-related complications
Your Breast Fat Grafting Surgery
Your breast fat grafting begins with a detailed surgical plan based on your anatomy and goals. On the day of surgery, you’ll be placed under anesthesia so you remain comfortable and pain-free. Dr. Dassoulas makes tiny incisions in the donor sites (the abdomen, flanks, or thighs) and uses a specialized liposuction cannula with low suction pressure to gently extract fat. This careful technique protects the integrity of the fat cells so they can survive once transferred.
The harvested fat is processed in a sterile environment using filtration and centrifugation to remove excess fluids, oils, and damaged cells. Only healthy, viable fat cells are preserved for grafting. Dr. Dassoulas injects the purified fat into your breasts in layered amounts using fine cannulas, which allows for precise placement and optimal integration with your breast tissue.
By placing fat in multiple micro-droplets and planes, Dr. Dassoulas maximizes blood supply to the transferred cells, improving their long-term survival. This creates a soft, natural feel while enhancing shape and symmetry. Because the fat is your own tissue, it blends seamlessly with your breasts, and the liposuction also contours your donor areas for a balanced overall result.
Recovery After Breast Fat Grafting
After breast fat grafting, you can expect mild swelling, bruising, and tenderness in both your breasts and the donor areas. Compression garments are usually worn over the liposuction sites to help reduce swelling and support healing. You’ll be advised to avoid pressure on your breasts (including sleeping face down or wearing tight bras) for several weeks to protect the newly transferred fat. Most patients return to light activities within a few days, though strenuous exercise should be avoided for about 3 to 4 weeks.
The swelling gradually subsides over the first few months, revealing your improved shape and contours. The final results typically become visible after 3 to 6 months, once the transferred fat cells have fully integrated with your natural tissue. For all appropriate candidates, Dr. Dassoulas also offers post-operative laser treatments to help minimize scar appearance, further enhancing your final outcome. With stable body weight, the results can last for many years.
Initiate Your Transformation Today
Dr. Kasandra Dassoulas is a board-certified plastic surgeon with over 14 years of combined surgical training and experience, known for her precision and artistry in breast enhancement. She offers advanced breast fat grafting to naturally enhance shape, improve symmetry, and refine contours using your own tissue. Every procedure is performed in accredited surgical facilities with personalized aftercare. Begin your journey toward a softer, more natural enhancement: schedule your consultation for breast fat grafting in Potomac, MD.
