title: Fast and simple fat grafting of the breast.
abstract: Fat grafting (FG) is being used at an escalating rate for correction of shape and volume of all types of breast surgery in order to optimize the aesthetic result in spite of an ongoing debate of the oncologic safety. In this paper we demonstrate our simple and fast sedimentation based FG technique in the attached video as visualized surgery. We have used this simple approach for 348 procedures in 176 women to optimize and correct the aesthetic result following all types of breast surgery. We prefer this simple technique as no technique has been shown to be superior to other more costly techniques and furthermore there are still questions about the oncologic safety in using adipose derived stem cells (ADSC). Simple fat harvesting using low vacuum and preparation by sedimentation is a fast and effective method to perform FG successfully for correction of shape and volume deficits of the breast following both ablative surgery as well as benign conditions with a high margin of safety.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plastic Surgery, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle/Odense University Hospital, Denmark ; 2 Department of Plastic Surgery, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway ; 3 Slagelse Emergency Department, Slagelse Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: Rasmus Nygård
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Kristensen
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plastic Surgery, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle/Odense University Hospital, Denmark ; 2 Department of Plastic Surgery, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway ; 3 Slagelse Emergency Department, Slagelse Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: Gudjon L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Gunnarsson
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plastic Surgery, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle/Odense University Hospital, Denmark ; 2 Department of Plastic Surgery, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway ; 3 Slagelse Emergency Department, Slagelse Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: Mikkel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Børsen-Koch
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plastic Surgery, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle/Odense University Hospital, Denmark ; 2 Department of Plastic Surgery, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway ; 3 Slagelse Emergency Department, Slagelse Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: Ashwin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plastic Surgery, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle/Odense University Hospital, Denmark ; 2 Department of Plastic Surgery, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway ; 3 Slagelse Emergency Department, Slagelse Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ømark
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plastic Surgery, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle/Odense University Hospital, Denmark ; 2 Department of Plastic Surgery, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway ; 3 Slagelse Emergency Department, Slagelse Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: Jens Ahm
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sørensen
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plastic Surgery, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle/Odense University Hospital, Denmark ; 2 Department of Plastic Surgery, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway ; 3 Slagelse Emergency Department, Slagelse Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: Jørn Bo
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Thomsen
keywords: Breast; fat grafting (FG); sedimentation; technique