4 years ago
Breast augmentations have been popular for 50 year...
Breast augmentations have been popular for 50 years. The most common method places silicone bags filled with either silicone gel or salt water into the breasts. While there are all sorts of issues with this technique, it is generally successful and the vast majority of women have good results. But wouldn t it be nice if you could just take a little fat from your belly or thighs and put it in your breasts? Most people have plenty of fat to spare, so the operation sounds wonderful.
Way back in the 1980s, plastic surgeons started injecting fat into breasts. But when fat is injected into the breasts, a lot of it doesn t survive. When that happens, the body makes scars with little flecks of calcium. Those little calcium deposits can look like cancer on a mammogram and that can lead to unnecessary biopsies. Accordingly, over 2 decades ago, the American Society of Plastic surgeons decided that increasing the size of breasts by injecting your own fat was way too dangerous and they banned the procedure