Take it from there. Put it here.
in Jonesboro, AR.

Fat transfer is two procedures in one. Fat is harvested by liposuction from an area where you have it to spare, usually the abdomen, the flanks or the thighs. It is purified so that what gets placed is fat rather than fluid, and then injected in layers where volume is wanted.

Because the donor area is contoured in the same visit, most people are changing two things at once: less where they did not want it, more where they did.

Fat transfer to the breast adds volume using your own tissue instead of an implant. It suits people who want a modest change and would rather not have a foreign object placed, and it is limited by how much fat can be harvested and how much the tissue will accept in one session.

It is not a substitute for a breast lift. If what is bothering you is position rather than volume, say so at the consultation and we will give you an honest answer about whether this is the right procedure.

Fat can also be placed to soften hip dips, the inward curve between the hip and the upper thigh, and to balance contour where an area looks hollow rather than heavy.

Transfer to the labia majora is covered on the labia puffing page.

The donor area is numbed with diluted local anesthetic. Most people describe pressure and movement rather than pain, and you are awake and able to talk to us throughout.

If you are uncomfortable at any point, we stop and adjust.

An implant is a manufactured object placed in your body. It has a shape you choose, it behaves predictably, and at some point it may need attention. Your own fat is the opposite on every count: it is living tissue, some of it does not survive the move, and what remains behaves like the rest of you.

That trade is the whole decision. Fat transfer offers a softer, more modest change with nothing foreign placed, and it costs you a second treated area, because the fat has to come from somewhere.

For people who want a change that reads as their own body rather than as a procedure, that trade is usually the point rather than the compromise.

You have a donor area and a recipient area, and they behave differently. The donor area is the liposuction recovery: swelling, bruising, soreness, temporary numbness, fluid drainage from the small incision sites in the first 24 to 48 hours, and a compression garment as instructed.

The recipient area is generally swollen rather than sore. Instructions about pressure on it are specific to where the fat went, and your physician gives you those.

Transferred fat needs a blood supply to survive, and a proportion is reabsorbed. What remains after the first few months is generally what you keep, and it then behaves like the rest of your body, responding to weight gain and loss.

Swelling takes weeks to settle, and the result is judged over three to six months. Our published breast fat transfer comparisons are photographed at three weeks, which is early in that timeline rather than a final result. Individual results vary.

Common and temporary: swelling, bruising, soreness, numbness and unevenness while things settle. Less common: infection, fluid collection, contour irregularity needing a touch-up, firm areas or lumps where fat did not survive evenly, a reaction to the anesthetic, or more reabsorption than hoped, which can mean a second session.

Fat placed in the breast can show up on future imaging, so tell any clinician doing your mammograms that you have had fat transfer. Your physician will go through all of this before you decide.

Dr. Rohit Chug, MD, a cosmetic physician, performs most of our fat-transfer work. Dr. Vaibhav Desai, MD, a physician member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, performs the rest and oversees every plan.

Ask any clinic offering fat transfer: how many do you perform in a month? Where would you take the fat from in my case? How much do you expect to survive, and what do you do if less does? Can I see before and after photographs at more than one time point, not just the early ones? Who handles the follow-up?

Photographs taken at three weeks show a swollen result rather than a settled one. Ask to see later comparisons as well, and be wary of anywhere that only has early ones.

We are at 3800B S Caraway Rd in Jonesboro, and people travel to us from Paragould, Trumann, Walnut Ridge, Newport, Corning, Blytheville and Batesville, and from Kennett, Sikeston and Poplar Bluff in Missouri, rather than driving to Memphis, Little Rock or Nashville.

Because the result is judged over months rather than on the day, plan the review appointments in when you book if you are travelling.