Your Questions
Your Questions
Q: Dr. Eppley ,Are you doing shoulder augmentation for women as well ? My shoulders are too narrow and I want to change that. I included the pictures here for you see what I would like to make , could you confirm if it’s possible? And maybe you could send me more pictures similar surgery?
I hope you understood me correctly, I want to increase my shoulders so that the body proportions are looking more right, but naturally not a fake , hope you know what I mean
Thank you so much !
A:I have never done shoulder lengthening on a female so I can not say whether such a change is possible. But if I borrow from my experience in men I would say such a change is not possible. What I learned from men is that the amount of shoulder lengthening by osteotomies is more limited than desired because of the strong shoulder soft tissue attachment to the scapula and surrounding tissues. Whether in females this is less of an issue due to less strong soft tissue attachments can only be speculated.
Dr. Barry Eppley
World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon
Q: Dr. Eppley, I am a healthy 50 year old male. I have had liposuction and fat transfer to my buttocks two years ago along with fat removal from my chest area. I am happy with the results of these body contouring procedures. I have however put on more weight and I am wanting to have fat transfer now to my shoulders along with sculpting of the waist, lower back and flanks. My question is will this give me a more athletic look. And is fat transfer to shoulders a successful procedure. How much fat will be saved in the shoulders as the shoulders are my first priority. If I have fat left I want my buttocks still a little more fuller. So in a nut shell I am trying to get a V shape look. Is this possible?
A: Fat transfer to the shoulders (fat injection shoulder augmentation) is just as successful as most other area of fat grafting such as the buttocks. The argument can be made that it may be a more favorable area for fat injections since the recipient site is largely muscle, always the most preferred site for optimal fat take. I almost always mix the harvested fat with platelet rich plasma (PRP) to optimize fat graft take. The real rate-limiting step in any fat grafting procedure is the amount of donor material one has to harvest and process for injection. All one can do in any patient, particularly a male, is to harvest as much fat as possible from the abdomen and flanks for injection. This should certainly help in obtaining more of a V body shape.
Dr. Barry Eppley
Indianapolis, Indiana