Fat transfer · Garden City / Boise
Fat transfer at Idaho Regenerative Medicine is natural breast augmentation without implants — and the same idea for glute, face, or hands. Dr. Sara Jo Walton uses your own fat to restore shape and refines the harvest site at the same time. Contour where you have extra. Volume where you want it. One procedure. Two changes.
Choose your focus
Same idea. Different plan. Start with the area that would let you feel amazing in your body again.
Get your volume back without putting a device in your body. After pregnancy, weight change, or years of feeling deflated in clothes that otherwise still fit. Softness that moves with you. Harvest-site contouring in the same procedure.
Curve that belongs to your frame — not a packaged BBL. Fat from the abdomen, flanks, arms, back, or inner or outer thighs adds shape where you want it and refines where you don’t. Two changes. One procedure. Ask about this at your consult.
Look rested. Not done. Your own fat, prepared finely for cheeks, temples, and the area around the mouth. People should say you look well — not “who did your filler?”
When padding thins, veins and tendons tell a different age than your face. A small amount of your own fat restores that cushion — dinner, steering wheel, reaching for someone. Ask about this at your consult.
Who this is for
Volume that left after life changed. Your own tissue instead of an implant. Contour and volume in the same procedure. Face and hands that no longer match how alive you feel. This works best when you have donor fat to spare, your weight is stable, and you are not using nicotine.
Pregnancy, nursing, aging, or significant weight loss — including after GLP-1 medications — can leave breasts, hips, face, or hands looking deflated while the rest of you feels more like yourself. Fat transfer moves living tissue back to where you miss it. The change is modest and natural: the version of you that used to fill a dress, not a different person.
You want softness that moves with you and nothing manufactured left in the body. No device to maintain or replace. Fat transfer is for people who would rather add their own fat than place silicone or saline — including those who never wanted implants, and those who are done with them.
The fat has to come from somewhere. That harvest is the other half patients ask for: a little less at the abdomen, flanks, arms, back, or inner or outer thighs, and a little more where you want shape. Two-for-one when you have extra to spare. That is why people search fat transfer instead of implants alone.
Cheeks, temples, and hands lose padding long before you feel old — and weight loss can hollow them further. A finer preparation of your own fat can restore that cushion so people say you look well, and so your hands match the vitality you still feel. Small areas. Real difference. Still your tissue.
Your path
Complimentary. You leave with a price estimate that day — not an individualized price yet. We have not examined your donor fat or the placement area. This visit is the conversation: what you want to see, how the procedure works at IRM, whether this practice feels like home, and enough cost context to decide if the next visit is worth it. No exam. No obligation.
The visit fee is applied to the procedure if you move forward. This is the pre-procedure visit. We examine and image the fat that would be harvested, assess the area that would receive it, and review your health so procedure day is safe and specific. Then you get the individualized plan and price estimate — built around your body, not the estimate from the first conversation.
Procedure day is typically 3 or more hours, depending on grafting sites and volume transferred. You come to the Garden City clinic with a ride home. You stay awake. We review the plan and mark the harvest site and the placement area together so nothing is a surprise. Fat is taken from an area that has extra — often the abdomen, flanks, arms, back, or inner or outer thighs — then prepared in the closed Cellmyx AcquiCell and Lipo-Loop system so as much of that tissue as possible stays viable. That fat is placed where you want volume. Comfort is planned with you before the day starts. When the work is finished you leave with garments, written aftercare, and a clear picture of what the first days should feel like. Home the same day.
You are not dropped at the door. Aftercare instructions and garments go with you. You have a way to reach the clinic if something does not feel right. An early follow-up checks healing at the harvest sites and the graft, garments, and activity. A later visit looks at the settled result — about six months, after swelling has left and the living fat has declared what stays. If you want more volume, that is when a second session is planned. Protecting the graft (no pressure on treated breasts or a fresh glute) is part of the plan we send you home with, not something you have to invent.
How this compares
Implants add a manufactured size. Fat transfer adds your own tissue — softer change, nothing to replace later. Large, immediate size jumps are what implants do. This is for people who want to look like themselves.
Large-volume gluteal surgery in an operating room is a different operation — different anesthesia, different volumes, different risk. Here the work is thoughtful contour with your own fat, done awake.
Gel can be dissolved. Fat transfer uses your tissue. On the face it is prepared more finely. What lives is yours.
The harvest is liposuction with a purpose. Abdomen, flanks, arms, back, and inner or outer thighs can look more refined while the breast, glute, face, or hands gain volume.
What to expect
You stay awake. Fat is taken from an area that has extra — often the abdomen, flanks, arms, back, or inner or outer thighs — prepared in a closed Cellmyx system, and placed where you want volume. Comfort is planned with you. Research on this platform reports about 90% cell viability.
Someone drives you. Garments and written aftercare leave with you. Sleep so nothing presses on the graft. Harvest sites feel bruised; that is expected. You can reach the clinic if something does not feel right.
Harvest sites feel like a deep bruise. Compression belongs there. Pressure does not belong on the graft — no sleeping on treated breasts, no sitting hard on a fresh glute graft. Walking is usually encouraged. Impact and heavy lifting wait.
Swelling makes it look bigger at first. Friends may think it is done. Fluid leaves. Living fat remains. The result you live in shows after settling — about six months.
Questions
A beautiful, modest step. For the breast, most sessions add 0.5 to 1.5 cups. Face and hands use smaller volumes on purpose. The glute is shaped from the fat you actually have.
Typically 3 or more hours, depending on grafting sites and how much volume is transferred.
Research on the AcquiCell Lipo-Loop system reports about 90% cell viability. Week-one size is still swelling. Settling takes about six months. What lives is living fat and will follow your weight.
Yes. Fat transfer here is done awake. Comfort is planned with you before procedure day.
Harvest sites are usually more tender than the area that received fat. Many people return to desk work within a few days if they can protect the graft. Full exercise waits longer.
Small access points — not a breast-fold implant scar. They usually fade.
We plan around what you have: a smaller change, a different harvest site, or a staged approach. If there is not enough donor fat, or if weight or nicotine would work against the graft, we will say so at the consult.
Yes. Tell the imaging team. Fat grafting does not replace screening.
The complimentary consult includes a price estimate. An individualized price estimate is built at the 60-minute New Patient Visit. The visit fee is applied to the procedure if you move forward.
Begin
Complimentary Get to Know You Consult with Dr. Walton in Garden City — see if this is a fit, and leave with a price estimate. Then a New Patient Visit if you want a plan and an individualized price estimate.
