How Is a Breast Augmentation with Fat Done?

By Millicent Odunze, M.D., About.com Guide

Updated November 14, 2011

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Your surgeon will use a surgical marker to indicate where the fat will be injected in the breasts. She will also mark the incision sites through which the fat will be injected. Small incisions will be around the areola and possibly within the crease of the breasts and the axilla. The incisions are small (approximately 2 to 3 millimeters in length).

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• Patient Is Marked Before Surgery
• Anesthesia Is Administered
• Harvest Site and Breasts Are Prepped for Surgery
• Incisions Made
• Tumescent Fluid Injected
• Fat Harvested from Donor Site
• Fat Transferred into Syringes
• Fat Transferred to Breasts
• Incisions Closed with Sutures

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