The surgeon takes tissue from underneath the breast and places it above the nipple to give a fuller look.

Professor Laurence Kirwan, a British consultant – who has a practice in New York and another in London – will discuss the operation at an American medical conference next month.

The technique is one of the emerging methods surgeons are developing to create a fuller breast more naturally and without the need for silicone implants. Other techniques involve moving fat from elsewhere the in the body and even using stem cells to grow new breast tissue.

Prof Kirwan said: “What I do is to move around some of their assets to produce the best effect. What we are doing is moving tissue so that the skin is tightened below, pushing the breast up and filling it out.

“For a lot of women this will be the ultimate breast enlargement operation that will be almost permanent compared to the use of implants which need replacing after around 10 years.”

The surgeon -who has done a 150 operations so far – with around 50 in the UK claims the results so far have been excellent.

His operation lasts approximately three to three and half hours and will set back patients between £8,000- £12,000, depending on the length of the operation and the hospital used.