Our objective before surgery is to ensure that you achieve the best results with the lowest risk. After your consultation, you may receive a detailed pre-op instruction document. This may discuss particulars such as when to begin avoiding certain medications, as well as what those medications are. For example, you must avoid products that thin the blood before having surgery. Certain prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, and even some vitamins and supplements can do that.
Before having surgery, it is necessary to stop smoking. If you currently smoke and you know you want to have natural breast augmentation, we suggest that you begin your smoking cessation process now, knowing that it can take some time for your body to adjust to optimal circulatory and oxygenation functions. Smoking is detrimental to surgery, creating increased risks, as well as to surgical outcomes, preventing the proper blood flow to tissues that are healing. In the area of fat transfer, specifically, a lack of blood flow can lead to the loss of more fat cells than we normally anticipate.
Due to the way in which fat transfer works, it is also necessary to reach a point at which you are happy with your weight before undergoing this procedure. While it is necessary that you have a sufficient amount of fatty tissue in one or more areas from which the doctor can harvest fat cells, there is a balance between how much you need to have and how much you want to have. If you are not at your ideal weight before fat transfer, and you lose more than 25 pounds after your procedure, there is a chance that the fat cells that have been transferred to your breasts could atrophy, thus modifying your breast size and shape.