Liposuction Creates Bigger Breasts -Too Good to be True?

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Cosmetic surgeon Bill Johnson, M.D. in Dallas, Texas, blogs that he has noticed many of his women patients who had liposuction also grew larger breasts, even though no breast augmentation surgery was done.

When Dr. Johnson looked over his medical records, he found larger bust lines in 48 percent of women patients who had liposuction below the waist. About six months are required for the effect to show, he found.

The surgeon told Dallas TV channel 5 the breast increase was usually about one cup size and that if he took two pounds of fat from, say, a patient’s saddlebags, it was 50 percent likely to appear on her breasts, later on.

Although the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS) says there is no evidence to show the effect really works, another cosmetic surgery and dermatologist, Eric Finzi, M.D., Ph.D., wrote an article about the same effect in a professional magazine for doctors.

Dr. Finzi noticed some of his liposuction patients were reporting larger breasts as a side effect.  So he studied the medical records of 95 women liposuction patients.

He found 43 percent of those patients later reported an increase in breast size from one to two cups  — although they did not gain weight anywhere else.

The liposuction/breast augmentation study was printed in an August, 2003, issue of the physician’s journal, Dermatologic Surgery and concluded: “Cosmetically significant breast enlargement is a common occurrence after tumescent liposuction surgery.”

Of course, nobody can promise a bonus breast enlargement because doctors aren’t quite sure why it happens.

Dr. Finzi did notice one common thread:  heavier patients who more total fat removed were more likely to have the bonus breast augmentation. But, as in Dr. Johnson’s patients, those patients did not gain weight. In a few cases, a few lost some pounds after surgery.

Other than that, Dr. Finzi does not know why liposuction causes breasts to grow.

Did you ever have liposuction? Were there any surprises later on?

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