Dr. Anthony Youn

I don't know.

Yeah.

and we don't know the answer to that and unfortunately we won't know the answer to that for decades because these operations have just been getting popular over the last few years and when i have brought this up with other plastic surgeon colleagues of mine they kind of brush it off they're like well you know it's a safe operation you know what we can't tell the future right but these are things we need to know about and so for me i do fat graft into breasts in rare cases when patients have had typically let's say they've had implants and they've had

some major complication and they feel they you know that they don't look right and we try to reconstruct them essentially yeah but you really want to weigh those risks versus benefits and really it's looking at plastic surgery from a more holistic perspective you know i have this term called the america's holistic plastic surgeon people like what does that mean

um well this is one of those things it's like not not just focusing on the cosmetic result but how does this affect your whole body you know because it does you no good if we make your breasts bigger with fat and then you develop breast cancer 15 years from now that you never would have had and we just didn't understand it because we never actually thought about this any more holistic whole body perspective right also another thing about getting just fat transfer and the difference between an augmentation and fat transfer because

i had fat transferred to my ass and i swear it keeps growing it does but usually it's if you gain weight like i had one patient who i put fat in her lips then she got pregnant maybe a couple years later and she was like she messaged me she's laughing she's like oh my gosh my lips are so huge oh no who knew that your lips could grow like that but if you think about it could the stem cells well it's fat you know you put fat somewhere and when you gain weight the fat cells get larger

You know, I can tell you this wasn't scary, but something that was, I guess, kind of in a paranormal, but this is not like the spooky thing.

So I had a patient of mine.

This is a story actually out of my book, Playing God, but this is a woman who came to see me.

She was in her early 60s.

She was really overweight and she had a cane.

So she walks into my office on a cane, barely able to walk.

And I took a look at her chart and she is like, has every medical problem known to man.

Like she was diabetic.

She had had stents placed from having a heart attack.

She was on blood thinners and like everything you can think of is what we call in medicine a train wreck.

And yeah, it's not a nice term, but this is what we call it.

If you go to the ER and like, oh, this person's a train wreck, you know, oh, geez, they've got every medical issue.

And so she comes to see me and I was like, well, what can I do for you?

And she said, I had a tummy tuck done by another surgeon and everything fell apart.