Besides wrinkling and gravity, volume loss to the face has become increasingly recognized as an important component to the aging process, which can be restored with either office-based fillers or facial fat grafting. Other than facial fat grafting, it is performed on other areas like fat grafting buttock, fat grafting bump, breast fat transfer, lips fat transfer. Fat grafting or fat transfer is not a treatment for all aging, just the part that involves loss of volume. Volume loss is particularly more pronounced around the eyes, cheeks, and jawline, where fat grafting or lipofilling can play the greatest role in creating a balanced and comprehensive rejuvenation strategy for the face that may include blepharoplasty (cosmetic eyelid surgery) and/or a facelift. There are advantages to using a patient's own fat for an implant material. It is readily available, is a living tissue, will not be rejected, feels natural and can be replenished. Many surgeons feel that fat contains abundant stem cells which serve to assist rejuvenation.

Fat Grafting Procedure

Fat grafting or fat transfer involves removing fat from one's own abdomen or thighs to put into certain regions of the face that start to lose fat. Only tiny amounts of fat are removed so this should not be equated with liposuction. Using low-vacuum liposuction and non-traumatic blunt cannulas (which are 1 mm hollow tubes with a blunt end and a small hole through which the fat comes out). The fat cells are then purified, mixed with freshly prepared autologous PRP and slowly injected through tiny skin incisions into the tissue of the recipient site utilizing a small syringe and cannula. The fat is injected as little droplets throughout the areas of facial hollowness. By using this microdroplet technique, tiny droplets are placed throughout the tissues assuring that each transferred fat cell will have an adequate blood supply to achieve the permanent survival of the injected fat cells. The fat injections add fat to the areas beneath the skin & subcutaneous tissue, creating fullness that results in a lasting, youthful appearance of the injected area.

Since fat is a living tissue, it will become part of the body's natural tissue when transplanted. Some of the fat is digested by the body and most of the times several injections are performed in the same area before the results are permanent. Although some patients may get a permanent result with a single injection, most patients will need a second or third session to obtain a permanent result.

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Fat Grafting or Fat Injection Indications

The usual indications of fat grafting are:

• Sunken & hollow appearance around the eye,
• Filling of fat on sunken cheek,
• Increase lip size by fat injection,
• Correct facial folds by using fat grafting technique
• Correcting Laugh lines and wrinkles with the help of fat grafting technique
• Increase cheekbone size and contour by fat transfer surgery
• Fill in acne or traumatic scars by using fat transfer methods
• Fill in facial defects by fat grafting surgery
• To augment smaller breasts by fat injection method
• To enhance penile girth,
• To resurface any depressed area of body due to trauma, injections or abscess.

Limitations and Risks of Fat Grafting

Fortunately, significant complications from fat grafting are infrequent. This procedure is usually performed without any major problems. The risks in most surgeries are similar. Some of the potential complications of all surgeries are:

Adverse reaction to anesthesia, Hematoma or seroma (an accumulation of blood or fluid under the skin that may require removal), Infection, Changes in sensation, Scarring, Allergic reactions, Damage to underlying structures, Unsatisfactory results that may necessitate additional procedures.

You can help minimize certain risks by following the advice and instructions of your plastic surgeon, both before and after your fat transfer.

Why Revive Clinic?

• Our Treatment Approach At Revive, we have an individualized management of fat grafting or fat transfer or fat injectionwhich is dependent on various parameters like type of method used, total amount area to be grafted

We at Revive Center, Our plastic and cosmetic surgeon has treated number of successful patients of facial fat grafting, lips fat transfer and lipofilling methods. He has 13+ years of experience in cosmetic and plastic surgery. Revive center is equipped with all the modern equipements and techniques, highly experienced and qualified staff. Visit us for fat grafting surgery.

FAQ's

Who is the right candidate for fat grafting?

You are a right candidate for fat injection surgery if you are-

• Above the age of 18 years
• Good health
• You know the recovery, risk and limitations of the surgery
• Emotionally stable mindset

When will fat injection result be visible?

Fat injection results approximately takes 4-6 months to show, and skin quality takes 6-8 month to improve.

What are the risk, complications of fat grafting surgery?

Complications from fat grafting are rare. Some of the complications of fat injection surgery are –

• Adverse reaction to anesthesia
• Infection
• Changes in sensation
• Scarring
• Allergic reactions

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