New breast surgery method ‘the future of plastic surgery’

A new breast enlargement technique has been developed that doesn’t involve the use of saline or silicon implants.

Lipoaspirate transplant employs stem cells from the patient’s fat to create tissue in the breast area.

Italian plastic surgeon, Dr Gino Rigotti, presented research on the procedure at the recent International Tutorials for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in India.

"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," he explained to Daily News & Analysis.

"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."

According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, the number of breast augmentation procedures performed in the UK last year increased by 30 per cent.