Fat removed by liposuction can be used to achieve a natural breast augmentation with fat grafting. The fat is harvested using a gentle liposuction technique and washed and processed to prepare it for injection as a graft. This can be used to add volume to the breast just as it can be used in any other area of the body. The advantage is that no implant is necessary. It is breast augmentation with your own fatty tissue. Dr. Green has been doing fat grafting to the breast and other areas for many years and was an early adopter of this technique.
There are special considerations for natural breast augmentation with fat grafting. For many years this was considered taboo by the Plastic Surgery Society. This is because there was a concern that the grafted fat might cause calcification that would cause confusion in routine mammograms. In several studies this has been shown to be not as much of a concern because when the procedure is done carefully this is not so common and a good mammographer can tell the difference between fat necrosis calcification and calcification from breast cancer. The actual technique does not increase the risk for breast cancer.