Implants, weight gain, or birth control = options
Actually,there is now another option, natural breast augmentation through fat injections
In March 2009 the FDA lifted the ban on fat transfer for breast augmentation, and recently they have started using patients own stem cells in combination with the fat.
Fat is removed through liposuction then injected in the breast. When combined with stem cells better results are obtained as new blood vessels are grown in the newly injected fat, and the stem cells decrease the ability of the patients body to reject the fat.
Clinical trials were done with promising results which led to the removal of the FDA ban. Fat transfer to the breast was done as far back as 20 years ago, but the techniques were not developed and there were many complications.
Once the fat or fat and stem cells is injected it take approximately one month for the breast tissue to grow to the fully developed state.
The down time is minimal with many people going back to work the next day.
I am not a plastic surgeon, but I am in the medical field and have read the medical journals about the lifting of the ban and the clinical trials.
The one thing that scares me is the small size of the clinical trials, and I wonder as with new drugs that come into the marketplace, will we find adverse reactions in the future. Remember Vioxx?
This is an exciting development, but I am anxious to see how the results fare in the future.