Fat’s the way to boost bustline

You can now say goodbye to nightmares about a boob job letting you down with leaks or ruptures. In fact with a lipoaspirate transplant, you can say goodbye to silicon implants.
Unlike saline gels or silicon implants, a lipoaspirate transplant uses stem cells from adipose tissue or fat from the patient herself to recreate tissue in another area.
"When it comes to breast augmentation, where silicon implants were traditionally used, we can now inject stem cells from fat taken from the abdomen or buttocks to re-grow breast tissue and muscle. This means you can say goodbye to silicon implants and hello to fat," says Dr Gino Rigotti, an Italian plastic surgeon, who presented his research at the recent International Tutorials for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery at Bombay Hospital.
Rigotti, who says he is the first surgeon to perform the transplant, says 1,200 patients benefited. The research paper was published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal, 2008.
The surgeon says, "It is simpler, faster, can be done under local anaesthesia, without hospitalisation and at a lower cost." "Unlike a silicon implant, which is a foreign body, we use the patient’s fat, so there is no risk of rejection or allergic reaction," he adds.
The doctor says the idea came from a patient who underwent breast reconstruction surgery at his clinic 10 years ago. Rigotti says the 36-year-old had a lymphoma under the collar bone. "She suggested I use fat to fill the area. The results were fantastic. That’s when I started studying fatty tissue," he explains. "This is the future of plastic surgery," says Dr Nitin Mokal, cranio-facial consultant and plastic surgeon.