In order to be a good candidate for breast augmentation surgery, you must have enough fat depots on your body to allow for the harvesting of fat in order to inject into the breast. Unfortunately, most small-breasted patients are also quite thin and don’t possess enough fat to allow for a substantial volume of fat to be transferred. Remember, that overfilling by approximately 300 cc is required to compensate for the 30% of volume lost at one year following surgery. Thus, if you were considering 400 cc breast implants, you would want to be injected with approximately 700 cc of fat per breast. This requires liposuctioning approximately 1500 to 2000 cc of fat from your body as this will yield approximately 700cc’s of fat following processing. If you are fortunate to have a large depot of fat and small breasts, then you are a good candidate. In contrast, patients who have failed breast augmentation with breast implants are ideal candidates, as they have no other option for breast augmentation. In addition, they usually have stretched out their breast skin envelop prior to having the implants removed for infection, capsular contracture, etc. and so will have increased room to accommodate the fat injections. For patients who have a tight skin envelope, two separate sessions may be required to attain the desired breast volume.