Have you come across such an incomprehensible term as fat vaccination and want to know what the procedure is? There is nothing easier than getting an answer to this question. This is breast augmentation with fat. That is, bust lipofilling is familiar to most women. It is about this procedure: its advantages and disadvantages, which we will discuss today.
Grafting fat under a microscope
The method is based on "catching two birds with one blow":
- Removal of adipose tissue from problem areas of the body.
- Their transplantation into the mammary gland area.
This will give you a lush bust and a slender line of hips, legs or a tense tummy. It is from these places that much-needed fat is extracted. Surgeons recommend the use of liposuction. Body shaping by removing or ingesting one’s own fat deposits has been practiced for over a century. Modern technologies make it as safe as possible for patients.
The main condition for a positive result of this procedure is the maintenance of adipose tissue sustainable during their transmission. "Dead fat" not only will not improve your shape by dissolving. But it can also cause connective tissue growth at the transplant site (fibrosis).
And this process significantly complicates hardware methods of studying the condition of the mammary glands and can cause an overdiagnosis of the growth of neoplasms in this area. That is, the issue of proper liposuction and proper transplantation is by no means excessive. In order for the procedure to be successful, it is performed under sterile conditions using special equipment.
In all stages of its implementation, contact of adipose tissue with oxygen is not allowed to avoid its oxidation.
Advantages of the procedure
Lipofilling is an operation, albeit a mini. It can be performed under local or general anesthesia. The first is preferred for the patient's cardiovascular system. Its main advantages are:
- minimal invasiveness / trauma (compared to endoprosthetics);
- high survival rate of "donor" tissues;
- minimal risk of allergy (compared to the introduction of fillers, even on the basis of hyaluronic acid). An allergy may be to anesthetic medications;
- lack of visually recognizable scars, even thin scars;
- the possibility of "ordering" the shape of the breast, after a few months repeat the procedure if necessary to enlarge the breast by more than 1 size, rearrange the breast if necessary;
- restoration of asymmetry in congenital / acquired shape defect;
- the use of own fat is allowed even when other methods are contraindicated;
- for correction of breast shape after implant removal, breast surgery. Such an opportunity is often used by older patients and young women when it is impossible to replace / implant an endoprosthesis (for example, an allergy to a material);
- relatively short rehabilitation period;
- complete naturalness of the shape of the mammary glands after manipulation and natural sensations on palpation;
- an added bonus of the procedure is tissue rejuvenation at the site of fat injection.
Proponents of the method argue that fat vaccination gives long-lasting, almost lifelong results. Opponents say another procedure will be needed in a maximum of 2 years. It is true that every organism is unique. With good tissue transplantation, the result can last 5-10 years. Provided that you will neither gain nor lose weight or get pregnant.
Correction will probably be needed after pregnancy. However, there are also known cases when in some patients the actually injected adipose tissue was absorbed in 1. 5-2 years. And the notebooks returned to the previous unsatisfactory ones.
Before you decide on the procedure or leave it, evaluate the results of breast augmentation with your own fat in the photo.
Limitations of lipofilling
Breast augmentation with fat has a number of limitations and disadvantages:
- the possibility of increasing the volume by only 0, 5-1 size per procedure (pump out about 150-200 ml of fat);
- risk of resorption of injected fat after 0, 5-2 years;
- difficulty of surgery for very slender women (lack of material);
- presence of contraindications (absolute and relative);
- the possibility of death of part of the fatty material during its introduction and the development of foci of fibrosis in this zone, which reduces the reliability of hardware methods for breast examination;
- a little preparation is needed before lipofilling (smoking cessation, drinking alcohol, taking medications that affect blood clotting).
An additional disadvantage of the procedure is its relatively high cost. If repeated fat injection cycles are needed, it can be more expensive than endoprosthetics.
Indications for the procedure
The introduction of subcutaneous fat from other parts of the body into the breast is shown:
- with a lack of tissue for prosthesis implantation (covering the edges with existing tissue);
- unwillingness of a woman to resort to endoprosthetics;
- the need for a small correction in case of tissue deterioration after pregnancy, breastfeeding, hormonal crisis, sudden weight loss.
Some women practice lipofilling as a trial intervention. They look at what the breast will look like, how much it needs to be enlarged before opting for endoprosthetics.
When is the procedure not recommended?
Absolute contraindications include:
- with severe somatic diseases (heart disease);
- mental disorders;
- endocrine diseases (diabetes);
- with tumor growth;
- some systemic diseases;
- blood pathology.
To refrain from changing shape with your own fat for a while, you need to:
- during menstrual bleeding;
- with chronic pathologies during exacerbation;
- in case of infectious disease (in the acute period);
- during pregnancy and lactation. You can return to the issue of breast augmentation 12 months after you stop breastfeeding.
After recovery, achieving stable remission and cessation of menstruation, lipofilling for relatively healthy women becomes quite affordable. You should not enlarge your breasts this way if you are addicted to cigarettes. Smoking has a very bad effect on the durability of the results of the procedure.
Stages of lipophilization
The manipulation of changing the size of the bust with the help of your fat takes place in 3 phases:
- material sampling (liposuction);
- cleansing from impurities (for example, blood);
- in fact lipophilization or "pumping" of the breast with subcutaneous fat, removed by vacuum suction from the problem areas.
A few hours after the procedure, the patient can safely go home.
Rehabilitation
The rehabilitation period includes:
- wearing special underwear, then a bra with wide straps to prevent mastoptosis (fabrics must "get used" to the new weight and volume of the breast);
- restriction of physical activity;
- avoiding exposure to temperature;
- refusal of a manual blow to the chest area 1-2 months after the procedure.
After lipofilling, discomfort may be felt in the breast area for the first time, the breast may swell slightly, and hematomas may form in the area of the sting. These phenomena are classified as normal. They pass by themselves fairly quickly. The period of primary rehabilitation ends in 2-4 weeks.
Until the puncture sites heal, they are treated with a local antiseptic according to the doctor's instructions. The result of lipofilling will be able to be fully assessed in six months.