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DIEP Breast Augmentation

A natural alternative to implants.

What is DIEP augmentation?

A microsurgical procedure that enhances the breasts with your own living tissue, transferred from the lower abdomen, adding natural volume while also tightening the abdomen. No implants, and no foreign material.

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Dr. Joshua L. Levine, MD, FACS

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DIEP Breast Augmentation

A Natural Alternative to Implants

Our DIEP Augmentation procedure was perfected over two decades of microsurgical experience. Dr. Joshua L. Levine provides permanent breast enhancement using your own tissue, without implants.

DIEP Breast Augmentation is a technique that requires the rare combination of reconstructive and cosmetic expertise. Unlike traditional fat grafting, this technique uses a living flap of tissue.

What is DIEP Augmentation?

A natural alternative to implants. More effective than fat grafting. DIEP Augmentation is an option for enhancing your breast volume permanently.

Previously only performed as a reconstructive procedure, DIEP flap transplants living tissue from the abdomen to the breast. When used for cosmetic patients, the DIEP Augmentation reshapes the breasts using tissue and fat from the abdomen. This results in fuller breasts that look and feel natural as well as a tighter and flatter stomach. Unlike breast augmentation with autologous fat grafting, which can result in resorption, DIEP Augmentation results in superior cosmetic results that last forever because the breasts are augmented with living tissue.

Dr. Levine’s Pioneering Expertise

Dr. Joshua Levine has over 20 years of experience in breast microsurgery.

Drawing on his foundation as a breast reconstructive surgeon, he has extended these same techniques to offer DIEP Augmentation.

Since 2004 Dr. Levine’s has dedicated his career to perfecting the art and science of microsurgical breast reconstruction.

His work has continued to evolve, expanding possibilities for natural-tissue augmentation as an alternative to implants.

Permanence

Implants typically need replacement or revision within 10 to 15 years. DIEP augmentation is permanent.

Natural Look and Feel

Because the volume added is made of your own fat (not silicone or saline implants), it moves, softens, and settles to look and feel like a natural breast.

Contour and Shape

The same procedure that adds volume and shape to the breast also refines contour at of the abdomen, delivering a dual benefit in a single surgery.

No Implant Risk

Because there’s no foreign material involved, there’s no risk of rupture, leakage, or capsular contracture, and no concern about breast implant illness.

A Result You Love

    • Larger, fuller breasts
    • Avoid potential health concerns linked to breast implants
    • 100% solution for patients with capsular contracture
    • Longer-lasting and more effective augmentation than fat grafting
    • Also results in a firmer, flatter abdomen
    • Procedure has been well-established in use for breast reconstruction following mastectomy

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    Natural Tissue Breast Augmentation

    FAQ

    Autologous natural tissue breast augmentation is a microsurgical procedure that uses a woman’s own tissue, rather than a synthetic implant, to add volume and shape to the breast.

    Tissue is transferred from a donor site — commonly the abdomen — along with its own blood supply, so it becomes living, integrated tissue.

    Below are 3 reasons why Fat Grafting is less effective:

    1. You don’t get as much volume with fat grafting
    2. In order to get volume with fat grafting, you have to do it multiple times.
    3. Fat grafting is never 100%. It is always a fraction of that in terms of how much stays and reabsorbed. 

    Because it uses your own tissue, there’s no implant material that can rupture, leak, or eventually need replacing.

    Implants typically require replacement or revision within 10 to 15 years, while autologous augmentation is generally a one-time procedure.

    The results also tend to look and feel more like natural breast tissue, since that’s what they’re made of.

    Candidates include women who want to avoid synthetic implants altogether, as well as women who are having implants removed and want natural volume in their place.

    Dr. Levine’s advanced microsurgical techniques, including stacked combination flaps, allow a wider range of body types — including thinner patients — to qualify than with more limited tissue-based procedures.

    Tissue is most commonly taken from the abdomen (a DIEP flap) or the upper buttock (an SGAP flap), depending on a patient’s anatomy and goals. It’s transferred as a flap along with its blood vessels, which is what allows it to remain living tissue once moved.