Breast augmentation with your own fat — modest, soft, implant-free volume with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayhan Işık Erdal. Honest size expectations stated up front, for international patients.
Fat survival (~50–70%) sets a natural ceiling per round: overfilling kills the graft, restraint keeps it. What that buys is remarkable — soft, warm, natural volume that is simply you: no device, no exchange schedule, no augmented look. Want more? Staging or a hybrid plan, honestly discussed.
From natural volume to explant restoration — the uses where your own tissue is the right tool.
A modest, soft, entirely natural size increase using your own fat — typically around half to one cup per session. No device, no exchange schedule, nothing that isn't you.
After implant removal, fat transfer softly restores volume and shape — the natural next chapter for women done with implants but not with their silhouette.
Fat can be placed precisely where one side needs it — one of the technique's genuine superpowers, difficult to match with off-the-shelf implants.
Softening hollowing at the upper breast and refining the cleavage line — subtle sculpting where implants are a blunt tool.
Restoring the fullness that weight change or breastfeeding took — with tissue, not a device.
Fat layered over an implant to soften edges, camouflage rippling and blend contours — the best of both, when both are honestly indicated.
Harvest, purify, place — every step designed around one goal: keeping your fat cells alive.
Photos, your goal, your donor fat and your breast envelope — and a plain answer on what fat can deliver for you. If you want a two-cup change in one step, you'll be told an implant serves that goal better. Honesty here is the product.
Fine, low-pressure liposuction from the waist, abdomen or thighs — volumes chosen for the breast plan, with a genuine (modest) contouring bonus at the donor site.
The harvested fat is processed to concentrate healthy, viable cells — preparation quality is a major driver of how much survives.
Fat is layered in many fine passes across the right planes around the breast tissue — never crude boluses. Placement craft decides both survival and softness.
Because ~50–70% of transferred fat survives, each session carries a natural ceiling. Overfilling kills fat; restraint keeps it. Larger goals are staged across sessions, honestly.
Swelling settles over weeks; surviving fat stabilises its blood supply. Judge the result at 3–6 months — what remains then is living tissue, yours for the long term.
Implants: predictable, larger, immediate. Fat: modest, natural, device-free. Hybrid: implant foundation, fat finish. The right answer follows your goal — and you'll hear it straight.
Fat transfer softly restores volume and shape after implant removal — same operation or staged, sometimes with a lift when skin genuinely needs it. The natural next chapter, honestly planned.
A double board-certified plastic & reconstructive surgeon who treats breast fat transfer as what it honestly is: a natural, modest, beautiful tool — never an implant in disguise.
Most patients start with WhatsApp photos and an honest opinion — no pressure, no obligation.
Send photos and your goal over WhatsApp. Dr. Erdal assesses donor fat, breast envelope and expectations — and answers honestly, including when an implant or hybrid would serve your goal better.
Fat alone, staged sessions, or hybrid — a tailored plan with an all-inclusive quote and no obligation.
In Istanbul you are examined and the plan confirmed before anything is scheduled.
Typically 2–3 hours under general anaesthesia or sedation — harvest, purification and placement performed personally by Dr. Erdal, usually as a day case.
You recover nearby with garments fitted and the team on call — typically 5–7 days in Istanbul.
Dr. Erdal stays reachable as swelling settles and the result matures over the following months.
Most patients travel from the UK, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Germany and the Nordic countries. Direct flights, English-speaking care throughout, a stay of typically 5–7 days — and savings of 50–70% versus comparable private treatment at home.
The breasts are swollen and tender in a sports bra; the donor area aches like a hard workout in its compression garment. Both are manageable with simple pain relief. Walking from day one.
Desk work from day 3–7. Breast swelling starts settling — you look fuller than the final result by design. No pressure on the breasts: soft bras, back sleeping.
Exercise resumes gradually; donor-site firmness softens. Chest-loading training last. The quiet biology: surviving fat is securing its blood supply.
Swelling gone, volume settled — what you see now is living tissue and stays. This is when size is judged, photos compared, and any staged second session sensibly discussed.
Size truths, survival science, mammogram facts — the questions women actually ask.
Half to one cup per session — and why that ceiling exists. The size talk clinics avoid, had properly.
Read articleDifferent tools for different goals — predictable volume versus natural tissue. Where each genuinely wins.
Read articleThe foundation of an implant, the finish of your own tissue — who genuinely benefits from both.
Read articleThe honest number: typically around half to one cup size per session. Fat survival (~50–70%) sets a natural ceiling — overfilling beyond what the tissue can nourish kills the graft. Want more? It's staged across sessions, or achieved with an implant or hybrid approach. Any clinic promising implant-scale results from one fat session is marketing, not planning.
Commonly around 50–70%, varying with technique and biology. Surgeons plan for it with slight over-grafting within safe limits; what survives the first months has its own blood supply and remains as living tissue long-term.
Different tools. Implants deliver predictable, larger, immediate volume — with a device, its maintenance realities, and a more augmented look. Fat gives modest, utterly natural volume with no device and a donor-area bonus — at the cost of size ceilings and survival variability. Your goal decides: dramatic and predictable → implant; subtle and natural → fat; both → hybrid.
An implant for the foundational volume plus fat layered over it to soften edges, camouflage rippling and blend the contours — particularly valuable in slim patients with little natural coverage. The honest best-of-both, when both are genuinely indicated.
Yes — it's one of the technique's most rewarding uses. After implant removal, fat softly restores volume and shape without a new device. Depending on volumes and tissue, it may be staged; assessment (ideally with your implant history) sets the plan.
A fair, important question. Some transferred fat can form small oil cysts or calcifications (fat necrosis) visible on imaging. Modern radiologists distinguish these from suspicious findings reliably — the key is telling your radiologist you've had fat transfer. Current evidence does not show fat transfer increasing breast cancer risk; routine screening continues as normal.
Share photos (front and side, in a bra and without) and your goal in your own words. Dr. Erdal personally replies with an honest opinion — including realistic size expectations — plus a tailored plan and all-inclusive quote, with no obligation.