The clinic's senior consultant has visited Tours in France, where he gave a lecture on breast augmentation using his own fat.
Background and purpose
Traditionally, fat grafting has different processing methods. We retrospectively compared aesthetic breast augmentation by machine and manual centrifugation of fat.
Patients
Since 2008, Oslo Plastikkirurgi Clinic has performed 68 breast enlargements (56 patients) using fat grafting to treat hypoplasia mammae, asymmetry, or ptotic breasts. Criteria for treatment include an alternative to implants; excessive fat; a realistic expectation of volume; no history of breast cancer; and radiographic evaluation.
Methods
Fat was machinecentrifuged in 1 group of 24 patients (27 enlargements) and manually centrifuged in another group of 32 patients (41 enlargements). Fat was harvested from the abdomen, thigh, buttocks, or knee and grafted in intersecting and parallel canals through small incisions using Coleman cannulas.
