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Fat grafting to the face is one of the best ways to rejuvenate your face to a more youthful look. Patients seeking fat grafting, also known as fat injections, are usually composed of two types:
- patients whose dermis has thinned due to the aging process and the face looks tired or sagging
- younger patients who have a volume deficiency in the upper areas of their face
In both cases, these patients have a loss of volume in the face . This makes the face seem tired and aged. Fat injections can restore the volume to your face to give you a youthful glow.
Examples of how fat can be used in the face
Ways that fat injections can be used to help you rejuvenate your appearance include:
- eliminate or reduce bags in the lower eyelids
- substitute for cheek implants if you are seeking a higher profile in your cheeks
- increase general volume in the mid face area with a natural distribution of fat
- substitute for a mid facelift
Regenerative properties of your own fat tissue
In addition to making your facial structure look younger, fat injections can also improve your skin. More than a decade ago, researchers discovered that your own adipose tissue contains adult stem cells. These are cells found in your own fat that have regenerative properties. When the procedure is performed correctly, fat grafting can provide a new source of blood supply for your existing tissue and skin. Thus, the fat not only adds volume to your face, but it also has these natural regenerative properties to make your face look more youthful.
In summary, fat injections are a natural way to make a more youthful you. To read more about regenerative fat grafting please see my video, Stem Cells from fat-Plastic Surgery’s New Frontier.
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
15 Comments
February 25, 2012 at 10:42 am
We do like Word Press. Have not had problems with hackers.
Unfortunately, I do not know of any other alternatives, although I am sure many exist.
Thanks for reading our blog.
February 25, 2012 at 9:59 am
Gracie:
You can, but the results are not as predictable as in other areas. The reason is the lips move a lot, and I don’t think the grafts take as well when the area in in motion.
You may benefit from a lip lift. See our post on the subject
February 24, 2012 at 11:21 am
Greetings! I know this is kind of off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this website? I’m getting fed up of WordPress because I’ve had problems with hackers and I’m looking at alternatives for another platform. I would be great if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.
February 22, 2012 at 7:25 pm
I found the info interesting and the pictures looked good. I’m 55 and not sure if I need something more that but what I really like is that the filler is coming from my body, making it natural. For right now my only question would be: Can the fat injections be used for above the lip area to lessen the wrinkles there also?
January 8, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Thank you!
December 26, 2011 at 10:51 am
Really liked this article. I will be be linking back to this from my own blog.
October 30, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Thanks, please come back to the blog
October 14, 2011 at 1:20 am
Nice blog.I am impressed,very helpful information found on this blog.I am Face Lift patient.I was seeking this certain information for a long time.I learned the information about Face Lift Surgeryprocedure.Thank you again and again for posting this blog.
July 25, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Ms.
I cannot make a judgement on your procedure since I don’t know any of the details.
If you want me to give you a meaningful opinion, send us some pre and postoperative photos and I can evaluate what your choices are.
I usually have Kelly at kelly@cosmeticsurg.net answer questions about finances, etc. Contact her, she’d be glad to help you!
July 23, 2011 at 10:42 am
Dr rodriguez sorry to bother you again, but i had my fat transfer surg as i prev posted, my second one ( my first was three years ago) and i had used fillers to fill in the hollow leftfrom abotchec fat transfer, and thefillers worked nicely, but my dr had to dissolve the filler before my surgery, and i had the procedure done but inoticed that this time my skin did not improve, in fact i hadno bruising at all, it lmost seemedasif my face did not reactothefat, do you think that the fillers have somehow damaged or desentisized the nerve endings in my face?
I thought it was strange and the injections were done from inside my mouth, i liked how there was no bruising but why did my skin not improve ?i am 28 and the filler gave my skin better texture than the fatdidthistime, itwas taken frommy flanks, sry aboyt how the words i write are not seperated , i am writing on a keypad.
And how much do you charge for facial fat grafting/lower eyelids, face?
December 10, 2010 at 6:50 pm
This is great news! Looking forward to see more.
August 20, 2010 at 8:39 am
Anders Cohen:
I think the reason fat grafts work so well in the face is precisely because of the regenerative actions of the stem cells residing in the fat. This regenerative action is as important as the filler role of the fat.
Thanks for reading the blog!
August 16, 2010 at 9:52 pm
I guess this applies for those who want to have a regenerative skin on their faces. It looks good on them.
June 29, 2010 at 7:34 am
Thanks for the compliments.
I would encourage any Plastic Surgeon who wants to learn this technique to visit someone who does it a lot and really look at the way they do it before they try it on their own.
June 23, 2010 at 2:28 am
Great to know about fat infection techniques in depth from this blog.This will really help for my forward steps to be taken.And as the video demonstrates it will really help with the help of different cosmetic surgeons.
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