Many people wonder if they have enough fat deposits which can be harvested for fat grafting. While this fear may seem logical, skinnier people do make good candidates for fat transfer. This is true not only for fat injections needed in areas such as the cheeks, lips, or hands which need less fats, but even when a patient needs breast augmentation. If you are skinny and want to benefit from fat transfer procedures, you can find Dr. Bloch at www.bodybybloch.com to book for your consultation. Dr. Bloch is a board certified plastic surgeon with 30 years experience and can perform fat grafting procedures with great outcomes.

For a skinny person, the best donor sites should be where fat is more stable and does not fluctuate easily with weight changes. Dr. Bloch often uses the fats from the thighs of skinny people who need fat grafting for breasts augmentation or to make other parts of the body fuller as desired. Stable fat will also not fluctuate once injected into another area. Fats from skinny people may even be much better than those taken from obese people. The fats obtained from skinny people are likely to be healthier and more consistent in size which gives them a longer life span. On the other hand, fats from obese people have no consistency in size but fluctuate and contain large oil bags with shorter life span.

When harvesting fat from a skinny person, Dr. Bloch may opt to use a multi-hole track cannula instead of the traditional one-hole cannula. That ensures only the right amounts of fats can be harvested from specific sites. After harvesting fat from a donor site, the doctor will properly mix the fat and prepare it for injections to the sites where it is needed. That ensures fat lobules are equally distributed to avoid any asymmetry issues after grafting. The fat obtained from a donor site of a skinny person will also make the difference required once injected into another site of the same person. If the fat is for breast augmentation, the skinny person needs breasts in proportion to the body size. Fat transfer results are more permanent unlike the temporary results of cosmetic dermal fillers.

Am I a good candidate for a fat transfer?

The purpose of fat grafting is to augment or fill in volume-deficient areas. Commonly grafted, or injected, areas include the hands, face (including the lips), depressions in the skin (following liposuction and scarring) and the breast and buttock (for augmentation). Of course, you must have donor sites from which fat can be taken. It is important that you do not have any circulation problems, either from a medical condition or smoking.

Breast implants plus fat grafting:

If your breast shape needs optimizing during a breast implant procedure, fat grafting can be useful. If you have residual breast irregularities after undergoing breast augmentation with implants, the irregularities can be filled in with fat to produce a smooth contour and an optimal shape.