Palm Desert Liposuction doctors
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Suzanne M. Quardt, MD
Palm Springs Plastic Surgeon
35800 Bob Hope Drive Suite 225, Rancho Mirage |
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Michael Sundine, MD
Orange County Plastic Surgeon
1640 Newport Blvd #450, Costa Mesa |
Recent Answers
Fat grafting dents from where the fat was taken seem to totally regenerate within 4 or 5 years, so doesn't that mean that fat cells do have regenerative capabilities?
We are all born with a fixed number of fat cells. These fat cells can swell with weight gain and shrink with weight-loss. The beauty of liposuction procedures is that the fat cells are removed permanently. They do not regenerate, or grow back. You are then left with fewer fat cells than before. The only way that people can then get "fat again", is that if you overeat, the remaining fat cells that you have left will swell up and make you look larger.
Also, it is a myth that "fat grows in other areas." What happens is that those other areas may appear proportionately larger than the areas where you have had liposuction.
Regarding fat-grafting (ie fat-injection or fat-transfer), it is important to realize that the transplanted fat can also "grow" with weight-gain and "shrink" with weight-loss. Thus, you can expect changes in your result depending on your overall weight.
