MORNING MAIL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, MARCH 22: Doctors at a city hospital constructed a natural right breast of 23 years old woman from body fat taken from her thigh. Doctors said that in her growing years Divya (name changed), a resident of Indore, suffered from Poland syndrome, a genetic problem that typically appears during a girl’s teenage years. In Poland syndrome leads to absence of breast growth in just one side of the body and the lack of chest muscles. In other words, it is a deformity in a body in which one breast gets developed and the other one is not able to grow, leaving the person with an uneven body figure.

Doctors said that she was under depression because of her seeing her asymmetrical body. “This punctured her self confidence badly. She was no longer a buoyant girl. World seemed to get shattered for her and life seemed too dull, as if it had lost the meaning,” added the doctor.

To seek expert guidance and assistance, she flew to Delhi to consult doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH). Following consultations with SGRH’s plastic and cosmetic surgeon, Dr Vivek Kumar, the woman opted for fat grafting, also identified as fat transfer as it is a natural, marginally invasive surgery.

Dr. Kumar didn’t encouraged breasts implants and suggested her to go for fat grafting. “Fat grafting is the latest technique for breast augmentation and has reached India recently . When implemented appropriately, it can enrich the size and shape of the breasts. Fat grafting is a superb way to fine-tune breast size for irregularity and can correct the all-famous Poland Syndrome. Apart from this, it is being used for many other cosmetic and reconstructive procedures of breast,“ said Dr Kumar.

As part of the procedure, fat is removed from the parts of the body where it is present significantly, such as the thighs, stomach or buttocks, and is then decontaminated to isolate the healthy fat cells from the impaired ones before being transferred to the region of the body that is deficient in volume.

According to Dr Kumar, surgery was performed on June 28 last year. “During the surgery , we injected 450 ml of autologous fat into the left breast , which was taken from her thigh . During injecting the fat we took care that it is dispersed evenly . Extra precautions were taken to inject fat into soft cavities and not into chest cavity, “ he added.