COSMETIC SURGERY | BODY
Fat Transfer (Fat Grafting)
Volume where you want it, taken from where you don't, with nothing synthetic involved. Consultant plastic surgeon led fat transfer for the breast, face and body, with the honest conversation first.
Material
Your own fat, nothing synthetic
Harvest
By liposuction
Areas
Breast, face, body & scars
Pricing
£2,500
Is this you?
Most people who come to us for fat transfer say one of these things:
I want more shape, but implants aren't for me.
Fillers wear off. I want something that's mine.
The hollows under my eyes make me look exhausted. I'm not.
Take it from where I don't want it. Use it where I do.
The scar healed fine, but it left a dent.
Natural or nothing. That's the whole brief.
Fat transfer is two procedures with one logic: liposuction slims the area that has too much, and the harvested fat, purified and reinjected, restores the area that has too little. Nothing synthetic, nothing foreign, and an honesty worth stating up front: not every transferred cell survives, and good planning accounts for that from the start.
THE PROCEDURE, EXPLAINED
What fat transfer
involves
Fat transfer (fat grafting) is a procedure that removes fat from one area of the body by liposuction, purifies it, and reinjects it into another to restore volume, contour or shape. It enhances natural curves or rejuvenates the face without implants or synthetic fillers, using entirely your own tissue, and the donor area is slimmed as part of the same procedure.
The honest mechanics: transferred fat has to re-establish a blood supply in its new home, and a proportion is naturally reabsorbed in the first months. Your surgeon plans for that from the outset, which is why results are judged once the surviving fat has settled, and why a second session is occasionally part of an honest plan rather than a failure of the first.
The honest mechanics: transferred fat has to re-establish a blood supply in its new home, and a proportion is naturally reabsorbed in the first months. Your surgeon plans for that from the outset, which is why results are judged once the surviving fat has settled, and why a second session is occasionally part of an honest plan rather than a failure of the first.
HONEST SUITABILITY
Who fat transfer is
right for
The right candidate wants a natural, proportionate change and has enough donor fat to supply it, which is the first honest screen: very lean patients sometimes simply don't have the material, and you'll be told so plainly rather than strung along.
A stable weight matters doubly here, because transferred fat behaves like the fat it came from: significant weight change swells or shrinks the result. Smoking is discussed frankly, since graft survival depends on blood supply and smoking throttles it.
Expectations are examined honestly: fat transfer delivers softer, subtler enhancement than implants, which is precisely its appeal and precisely its limit. If you want a dramatic size change, an implant conversation serves you better, and we'll have that one honestly instead.
A stable weight matters doubly here, because transferred fat behaves like the fat it came from: significant weight change swells or shrinks the result. Smoking is discussed frankly, since graft survival depends on blood supply and smoking throttles it.
Expectations are examined honestly: fat transfer delivers softer, subtler enhancement than implants, which is precisely its appeal and precisely its limit. If you want a dramatic size change, an implant conversation serves you better, and we'll have that one honestly instead.
Apex Medical
Expert care for the
change you choose
ONE PROCEDURE, SEVERAL TOOLS
Where transferred fat works best
A natural alternative to implants: subtler, softer enhancement using your own tissue, with the donor area slimmed in the same operation. The honest comparison with implants, including which suits your goals and anatomy, lives on our breast augmentation page and in your consultation.
Natural volume enhancement using your own fat rather than implants or synthetic injections. Buttock fat grafting is a procedure with its own specific safety considerations, taken seriously: technique, volumes and planning are discussed thoroughly and conservatively at consultation, and honest advice includes when a surgical lift serves you better.
Restoring the volume that faces lose: under-eye hollows, lips, temples and the deeper lines that fillers chase. Grafted fat integrates as living tissue, making it a longer-lasting, natural answer for the right candidate, planned in fine volumes where precision matters most.
Fat grafted beneath a depressed or tethered scar can improve the contour deformity and, for some patients, the discomfort that goes with it. A quietly reconstructive use of the same technique, assessed honestly at consultation.
Fat transfer is a living graft, not a filler. The judgement is in the harvesting, the purifying and the placing, millilitre by millilitre, because what survives is what you keep.
Consultant-led care
Operated on by
the surgeon you meet
Graft survival is decided by surgical technique: how gently the fat is harvested, how it's processed, and how precisely it's placed. This is a procedure where the surgeon is the result.
At Apex, fat transfer is planned and performed personally by Mr Kuen Yeow Chin, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and founder of Apex, whose reconstructive practice includes fat grafting across breast, face and body. The surgeon you meet at consultation is the surgeon who operates, and the same surgeon reviews what survives and settles at every follow-up.
At Apex, fat transfer is planned and performed personally by Mr Kuen Yeow Chin, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and founder of Apex, whose reconstructive practice includes fat grafting across breast, face and body. The surgeon you meet at consultation is the surgeon who operates, and the same surgeon reviews what survives and settles at every follow-up.
Your clinical team:
Mr. Kuen Yeow Chin
Consultant Plastic Surgeon & Skin Cancer Specialist
Reconstructive surgery and advanced skin cancer treatment
Sarah Millward
Skin Cancer Nurse Specialist
Skin checks, mole screening, and early skin cancer detection.
Laura O'Hare
Skin Cancer Nurse Specialist
Skin lesion care, post-surgical recovery, and private dermatology services.
Jackie Brighton
Skin Cancer Nurse Specialist
Expert mole checks, lesion assessment, and aftercare for skin cancer patients.
Jennifer Povey
Skin Cancer Nurse Specialist
Skin care treatment, photodynamic therapy (PDT), cryotheraphy, and personalised patient care.
Mr. Kuen Yeow Chin
Consultant Plastic Surgeon & Skin Cancer Specialist
Reconstructive surgery and advanced skin cancer treatment
YOUR CARE, STEP BY STEP
How fat transfer
works at Apex
Five steps, two of them before anyone operates: an honest consultation, then time to think. Living grafts reward unhurried planning.
1
Consultation
Donor areas and target areas assessed together; the realistic volume, survival expectations and alternatives discussed honestly; risks explained plainly; a written quote.
2
Two weeks to think
Cooling-off as standard; the quote holds.
3
Pre-operative assessment
Health screening, weight stability confirmed, medication review, smoking cessation as advised.
4
Surgery day
Harvest by liposuction, purification, and reinjection in one procedure, under the anaesthetic your plan requires; home the same day for most, with a compression garment on the donor area.
5
Recovery and review
Swelling in both areas settles over weeks; the graft establishes over the early months; results are judged with your surgeon once the surviving fat has settled, with a second session discussed honestly if your plan anticipated one.
Transparent Pricing
Fat Transfer Pricing
Fixed, transparent pricing with no hidden extras. Your exact quote is confirmed in writing at consultation, and it holds through your two-week cooling-off period.
Fat Transfer (Fat Grafting)
Your fixed written quote reflects the area treated, the volume of fat required and any combination with other procedures, and is confirmed at consultation before you decide anything.
from £2,500
Fat transfer is often planned alongside liposuction of the donor area or as part of a wider body contouring plan; combined plans are quoted as one procedure, always in writing before you book.
ONGOING CARE
Recovery, in two places at once
Fat transfer recovers in two areas at once, and both are undramatic. The donor area behaves like liposuction: bruising, swelling and tightness under a compression garment, light walking from day one, desk work within days to a week. The treated area swells too, and here's the honesty that saves disappointment: the early fullness is not your result, because some of it is swelling and some of the graft will naturally reabsorb.
What remains once the surviving fat has established its blood supply, over the early months, is yours for the long term, behaving like the living tissue it is. Your reviews track exactly that settling, and your aftercare plan puts every stage in writing, with consultant-led support throughout.
What remains once the surviving fat has established its blood supply, over the early months, is yours for the long term, behaving like the living tissue it is. Your reviews track exactly that settling, and your aftercare plan puts every stage in writing, with consultant-led support throughout.
Where to find us
Consultant-led care at Berkshire Grove Hospital
Apex Medical is based at Berkshire Grove Hospital, Grove House, Waltham Road, White Waltham, Maidenhead SL6 3TN, with clinics also at the Parkside Suite. Patients travel to us from Maidenhead, Windsor, Reading, Bracknell and Slough, and from across Berkshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire and London, for consultant-led care in a regulated private hospital without long waiting times. On-site parking is available.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm · Saturday by appointment only · Sunday closed
Call 020 3871 5898
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm · Saturday by appointment only · Sunday closed
Call 020 3871 5898
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about fat transfer at Apex Medical
Fat is harvested from a donor area by liposuction, purified, and reinjected where volume is wanted. The transferred fat establishes a blood supply in its new position and lives there as your own tissue.
From £2,500, with your written quote reflecting the area treated, the volume required and any combined procedures. Confirmed at consultation before you decide anything.
The fat that survives the transfer is long-lasting, living tissue. A proportion is naturally reabsorbed in the early months, which your surgeon plans for from the start, and significant weight change will still affect it like any other fat.
Fat transfer gives a subtler, softer, natural enhancement without an implant; implants deliver a larger, more predictable size change. Which serves you depends on your goals and your available donor fat, and the consultation answers it honestly, including when the answer is implants.
Fillers are synthetic, temporary and repeatable; grafted fat is your own tissue and, once settled, lasts. For deeper hollows and patients who want a longer answer, fat transfer often serves better; for fine adjustment, fillers keep their place. You'll get a straight recommendation, not a menu.
The common and temporary ones, in both areas: bruising, swelling, tenderness and temporary numbness. The less common ones: infection, asymmetry or contour irregularity, oil cysts or firm areas where grafted fat doesn't take, and over- or under-correction as the graft settles. Fat grafting to the buttock carries specific, well-documented safety considerations which your surgeon discusses thoroughly and conservatively at consultation. All surgery takes place in CQC-registered hospitals with consultant-led aftercare throughout.
Possibly not, and it's better said early: fat transfer needs donor fat, and very lean patients sometimes don't have enough to achieve the change they want. Your consultation will tell you honestly what your anatomy can supply.
Frequently, and often it should be: liposuction of the donor area is inherent to the technique, and fat transfer commonly features in wider body contouring or breast plans. Combined plans are sequenced and quoted as one.
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Everything you need, you already have
One consultation settles it: where the fat would come from, what it can honestly achieve where you want it, what survives and settles, and the cost in writing. Then two weeks to think, as standard.
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