In fat grafting, there are two sets of incisions.
One is for liposuction, so that would be done wherever we need to harvest the fat. Those are normally hidden within, for example, the underwear line or within the belly button. So it’s usually sited somewhere inconspicuous. Those incisions are slightly bigger, it could be up to 5mm or up to 1cm.
For the breast, we basically put numerous incisions to inject the fat. Typically, they’re put around the areolar. So where the nipple skin meets the normal breast skin. There’s actually an irregular contour so you can hide a lot of incisions over there.
Sometimes we can put it under the inframammary fold, but it’s not specifically an important landmark for us to site our incisions.
The procedure is done in one sitting, meaning that the liposuction is done and shortly after, once you prepare the fat, it is injected into the breast.
But then you may need more than one session to get the desired size that you want. So it really depends on what size you want.
Typically in one session, you can have an increase of about one cup size, and then if that is insufficient then you may need to repeat the procedure.
