Liposuction: Q&A
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Can Fat Cells Regenerate?
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?
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michhy
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Smart Lipo and Fat Cells
Fat cells cannot regenerate once they are removed by SmartLipo. In contrast, dieting decreases the fat content of the cells but does not remove the fat cells. SmartLipo actually removes the fat cells. Once they are gone they will never come back.
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The beauty of liposuction
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...
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Palm Springs Plastic Surgeon
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Fat indentation
I have seen long term indentation from overresection of fat. Possibly collagen formation as a response to trauma, or hypertrophy, not hyperplasia (meaning enlarging size not quantity) could be responsible for the filling in of the indentation.
Contrary to what is commonly thought to be the case in the medical community, fat cells can grow in number if the body weight increases above 170% of the ideal body weight. I had come across that fact doing a medical literature search when doing my...
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Fat cells don't regenerate
However, the remaining fat cells can enlarge with further weight gain. If women are pear shaped and then have liposuction to make them apple shaped, they will be a fat apple if they gain 30 lbs., not a fat pear.
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Fat cells regnerating?
Fat cells do not regenerate. Patients ask what happens after liposuction whenyou remove fat cells. I will tell patients that if they gain weight, the fat cells that remain in the area may expand in size but fat cell do not regenerate.
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Fat Grafting
There is no such thing as regenerating fat cells. We are born with a certain amount of fat cells and that is it. The interesting thing about fat cells is that they can enlarge but not replicate. So it can get bigger with weight gain and smaller with weigh loss.
Hope that answers your...
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Fat cells do not regenerate
You are born with all the fat cells you will ever have. These cells get larger as you store more fat and get smaller as you lose weight. When fat cells are removed with liposuction as with removal for fat grafting, those cells are gone for good. It is probably that the dents you had immediately after the procedure were from post operative irritation. The fat cells left behind may also have been injured and not storing fat properly. I am guessing that the fat harvest did not remove a large...
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Do fat cells regenerate?
You are born with a certain number of fat cells and they do not regenerate. However, some cells could have been injured and recovered. The fat cells that ultimately remain can increase or decrease in size depending on whether you gain or lose weight. As Dr. Rand said, the surrounding cells can become "fuller". If your weight changed by even 1 pound, the surrounding cells could expand and seem to fill in the dents. This mechanism is also the reason why, after liposuction, you...
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Fat cells don't "regenerate"
Once a fat cell is dead, it is dead for good. What might have caused your indentation to fill in is the plumping up of adjacent viable fat cells that were not injured in the fat cell harvest. Scars, in general, also remodel with time and this might have also played a role. But the fat cells didn't come back to life.
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Fat cells regeneration
Interesting question.
It all depends on what you mean or view as "regeneration"
Fat cells are not different from other commonly grafted tissue cells (skin, bone etc).
- IF they survive the harvesting,
- IF they survive the period in which they are without blood supply outside the body,
- IF they survive the transfer process after being placed in the grafted area,
- IF they become quickly hooked up and re-supplied by new blood vessels,
THEN - the fat cells live on in their new...
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