A patient asks me this:
What are your opinions on the BRAVA technology? Is it worth the struggle before having a breast fat transfer?
My answer is: Depends on your volume requests and your breasts flexibility. Such suction bras are expanding the breasts and thus increase their ability to adapt for more fat in lipotransfer for breast augmentation or breast reconstruction.
Flexible breasts do not need it. Stiffer breast might profit from it especially when bigger volumes of fat shall be transferred. The stiffer the breast is the more important a pre-surgical mechanical expansion treatment will be. Such treatment will make the breasts more flexible so bigger amounts of fat can be transplanted. As an alternative repeated lipofilling of smaller amounts of fat can be done in such cases.
DDr. Heinrich, MD