The Buying and Selling Body Parts: Women are now Using Cadavers for Boob Jobs

Across the country, women are embracing a buzzed-about injectable filler made from donated cadaver fat — yes, that’s tissue from dead bodies — to fill in, smooth over and enhance their shape. . . 

With limited long-term data, questions remain about whether the injected, pre-dead material could lead to fat necrosis, or the death of fatty tissue.
“If you take a patient’s own fat, the potential of having dead fat is pretty small, but it’s not zero,” said [a leading plastic surgeon, Dr. Tommaso] Addona, who has performed more than 10,000 breast cases. “I don’t know what the potential of this fat not surviving is.”

If the filler fails to integrate in the breast, it could potentially form oil cysts or calcifications that show up as hard, suspicious masses on imaging like mammograms — potentially triggering false alarms for cancer. . .

Made by Tiger Aesthetics, the injectable is billed as the “first structural adipose tissue designed for aesthetic body procedures, providing cushioning, volume and support,” according to its website. Sterilized and stripped of DNA from the deceased donor, the filler is said to preserve fat’s natural 3D honeycomb structure, “retaining the innate architecture of adipocytes (cells that store energy as fat) to provide immediate volume at the application site.” (Read more from “The Buying and Selling Body Parts: Women are now Using Cadavers for Boob Jobs” HERE)

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