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How Does Pregnancy Affect Fat Grafting?

I am considering Fat grafting to my cheeks, jawline and above upper lip. I am 31 years old and have suffered from major facial atrophy. How does pregnancy effect the Fat grafting?

3 Doctor Answers | Asked by kittymeowmeow in los angelos
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Effect of pregnancy on body fat grafting

I have had many patients who have had fat grafting to the buttocks for buttock augmentation. In those of these patients who had pregnancy and have had kids we have not seen any change in the size of the buttocks. it seems that pregnancy and weight gain and loss after wards has not affected the results of buttock augmentation in my patients.
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Fat transfers may gain and lose volume with pregancy

Many women experience a significant change in fat metabolism during pregnancy, leading to significant and somewhat unpredictable weight gain. Since the fat graft usually comes from areas that are resistant to weight loss, the fat will behave the same way as it would have when it was in the original location ("donor site dominance"). This leads to significant size change in the volume of fat cells during pregnancy, as the pregnancy hormones increase the ability to store... more
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Effect of pregnancy of fat grafts

In my limited experience, pregnancy can cause selective hypertrophy (overgrowth) of the transplanted fat. However, this is not a consistent finding and does not always occur. This makes it difficult to predict when it will or will not occur.

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