Weekend Recovery Rejuva-Lift Stem Cell Breast Augmentation

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This unique combination of liposuction and a natural breast augmentation is every San Diego woman's dream – you can make your body slimmer and breasts bigger without a foreign implant. Your own body fat offers an excellent source of stem cells and fat grafting material in order to enhance your breasts. It is now established internationally that a breast enlargement with autologous fat transfer with stem cells is a good alternative to breast implants. Every human has stem cells that possess repair and renewal capabilities.

Stem cell breast augmentation can give you two benefits from just one procedure. For personalized surgical information, call Dr. Jeffry Schafer in the San Diego Area at (888) 306-3647 or request a consultation.

Stem Cell Breast Augmentation – The Background

The development of liposuction has provided a unique method of harvesting fat cells and placing them into the subcutaneous tissues to improve appearance and contours of the face, breasts, and body. These techniques enable your older cells to behave in a more youthful manner.

There was initial controversy over this breast augmentation technique when the American Society of Plastic Surgeons had concerns about the procedure, which was developed by Dr. Yoshimura in Tokyo in 2004. The ban against stem cell breast augmentation was removed in the United States in March 2009.

Unlike traditional San Diego breast augmentation, this technique involves extracting fat and using half of the fat for transfer and the other half to salvage stem cells, growth factors and other cellular components after the fat has been removed. These two are combined to produce the tissue for the stem cell breast augmentation. These cells when added to the fat graft provide the nurture to sustain and promote a success rate of over 85 - 90% of the fat cells to remain.

Candidates for Stem Cell Breast Augmentation

The ideal patient should have enough fat in the hips or thighs for a loss of one to one and a half liters of fat from the body. The present cup size is also important. Generally it is only possible for A cups to be enlarged to B cups due to a small envelope, while a B cup could be enlarged to a C or D cup.

Usually only those desiring a modest increase of one or two cup sizes are ideal candidates and those too thin may not have enough fat to harvest from transfer to the breasts. Stem cell augmentation is a natural choice for those women concerned about synthetic implants. Note that this technology does not utilize any embryonic stem cells.

The Procedure

Dr. Schafer's unique Weekend Recovery Rejuva-Lift of the breasts utilizes the LipoKit and MaxStem technology from Korea to produce the best results in three easy steps:

• Lipocondensation utilizing special closed systems to harvest and separate the best adipocytes or fat cells
• Stem-cell isolation – fat is removed in a special incubator which uses Dr. Schafer's own proprietary Rejuvenase™ as a cleaving agent.
• The combination of the above two steps process to enrich the harvested fat with the isolated cells producing the "enriched fat graft."

Pre-surgical counseling is provided to ensure a "Customized Game Plan" based on overall anatomy and aesthetic profile in order to provide optimal results. Weekend Recovery Rejuva-Lift uses only FDA approved technology to ensure precautions that maximal survival and sterile environment is maintained the best results:

• The LipoKit and MaxStem have FDA approval and do not require "Trial and Study Permission Consents" of an untested procedure. Without FDA approval, other methods are considered investigational with unknown side effects and risks.
• This technology maintains an entirely closed system which does not allow any fat to be handled directly by hand and minimizes any risk of contamination and infection. It also allows us to provide higher concentrations of stem cells than most other facilities.
• Dr. Schafer was the first surgeon to have both the LipoKit and MaxStem in the country and utilize this innovative technology. Dr. Schafer is the only American Surgeon to have been personally trained by the inventor of this technology, Dr. H.K. Lee in Korea.

This procedure can also be used to repair other breast abnormalities including breast deformities or implant complications such as capsular contracture, rippling, or inadequate soft tissue coverage. The results can be followed by an MRI or sonogram. At one time there was negativity associated with breast augmentation fat grafting due to calcification and scarring visible on mammograms which could be confused with a malignancy. Advances in mammography screening technology have allowed radiologists to differentiate between any fat grafting changes and malignancy with a high degree of confidence. The purity of the Weekend Recovery Rejuva-Lift technique has a maximal amount of cell survival and minimal calcification and scarring.

About Dr. Schafer

Dr. Jeffry B. Schafer is one of the leading researchers on liposuction, fat grafting and breast augmentation. He has been performing liposuction and fat grafting for over 20 years. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Breast Surgery with over 30 years of breast augmentation surgery experience. He is a national and international lecturer on liposuction, stem cell and fat grafting, and breast augmentation. His office trains physicians and nurses and it is a Center of Excellence for Smartlipo™, SlimLipo™ and body-jet®. He has started a training program for Weekend Recovery Rejuva-Lift stem cell breast and face augmentation using the LipoKit and MaxStem technology. Dr. Schafer was recently appointed to be the Medical Director of the International Institute of Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine.