If you are a woman and have small breasts or want to enhance the size of your breast to look fuller and more confident, then cosmetic surgery is the best way to do it. There are two types of breast augmentation surgeries, breast implants and fat augmentation. Although both methods can effectively enlarge your breasts, many women have a problem deciding what procedure they should go for. Today, we will tell you some of the prominent differences between breast implants and fat augmentation, so you can decide what procedure might be better for you.
Differences between Breast implants and Fat augmentation
There are numerous differences between the procedure of breast implants and fat transfer breast augmentation.
Procedure Details
Breast Implants
First, an incision is made in your under breast crease. After making an opening, your surgeon will create a deep pocket within your breast. Once a pocket is created, the surgeon will either insert the saline grafts or silicone implants. Then your surgeon will close the opening using stitches. The breast implantation process is relatively more painful as compared to fat augmentation.
Fat Transfer Breast Augmentation
In fat transfer, your surgeon will first remove fat from other areas of your body like the tummy, sides, thighs, back or arms. This is done by Liposuction without any incisions.
Then the collected fat will be filtered from impurities and injected into your breasts in a systematic way. As no deep incisions or pockets are created, the procedure causes less pain and the recovery is much faster. The final look is also more natural.
Recovery
As fat transfer breast augmentation uses liposuction methodology, there’s hardly any scarring around your breast. However, you may notice minimal bruising, which will be gone within a week or two.
On the other hand, as breast implants require deep incisions, it will take 2- 4 weeks for you to heal completely.
Safety of Both Processes
Both breast implants and fat augmentation are safe and reliable processes through which you can significantly enlarge your breasts. However, fat augmentation uses your own body fat to enlarge your breasts and is commonly used in butt augmentation. This eliminates the implant related short-term and long-term risks making fat a safer option.
As breast implants are the most popular method to enlarge your breast size, many studies have been done on their safety. They do not cause any auto immune diseases or cancer, as some myths claim. FDA also approves both silicone and saline implants.
Results and Longevity Comparison
As mentioned earlier, both processes are highly effective through which you can increase your breast size. There are some things that you must know.
Fat Augmentation
As the fat augmentation method uses your body fat to enlarge your breast size, it provides a more natural look and makes body parts from which the fat is extracted thinner. Due to this, it is referred to as a two-in-one process.
In addition to this, the fat augmentation process also improves the shape of your breast. However, as fat transfer breast augmentation uses fat, the fat cells last shorter than implants, and weight loss can cause your breast size to shrink.
Also, if you are a significantly thin woman, then this process might not be the best for you. The size increase is more modest, about one cup size.
Breast Implants
As breast implants use external filling material, it looks a little less natural than the fat augmentation process. However, the change is drastic and immediate. The process not only improves breast size but also reduces sagginess.
You can enlarge your breast size by upto 3 cups. The results are fairly visible, and the implants easily last for 10 years.
Price and Maintenance
As breast implants don’t use the methodology of liposuction (fat extraction and fat injection), it is less time consuming, and hence cheaper, than fat augmentation.
Breast implants require no additional surgery, but you have to maintain them properly with regular follow ups so that they can last up to their maximum time.
No additional maintenance or follow up is required in the fat transfer breast augmentation process. The cost of both the procedures varies from country to country.
Conclusion
While Fat transfer is safer and more natural, Breast Implants are more dramatic. Your plastic surgeon will help you in making the right choice depending upon your desired results and your present size.
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