Fat Injections - Can It Be Permanent?

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Tags: under eyes, outer labia, permanent

Hi! I`ve heard alot about fat injections, but im still very confused! If you get fat injections under your eyes or in labia majora, is that permanent? Or will it be absorbed by the body? Thank you!

11 answers to Fat Injections - Can It Be Permanent?

Long-term results with facial #fat injections to improve under #eye area

Hi 474867anon in Norway, Fat injection is a good option for non-surgical facial rejuvenation, including lip augmentation or cheek enhancement. Fat may provide natural, soft enhancement of the cheeks, lips, and under eye areas. Fat is typically harvested from the abdomen, purified, and injected into the desired areas. However, there is a certain level of unpredictability with fat injections as always less than 100% of the fat survives long-term. In addition, the face continues to... more

Houtan Chaboki, MD
Washington DC Facial Plastic Surgeon

Fat injections are long lasting if done correctly

If you frequent various plastic surgery blogs, there is a wide variation in the types of techniques that surgeons are using. Thus, there is a wide variation in their results and their opinions about whether fat injections are permanent. When fat transfers are done correctly, a large percentage of the injected fat cells do indeed survive and are permanent. When done incorrectly, they don't last very long. The American Society of plastic surgeons just published a position paper... more

Ricardo Rodriguez, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

www.cosmeticsurg.net

Fat Grafting Can be Permanent - Things to Discuss with your Plastic Surgeon

There is a wide range of techniques, instrumentation and experience among the surgeons that perform this surgical procedure. Because of the tremendous variability in all of these factors, there is tremendous variability in fat grafting results. To perform fat grafting successfully and reproducibly a surgeon must employ careful preoperative planning, appropriate instrumentation and meticulous surgical technique. It is not something you can 'rush through' or... more

Michael Law, MD
Raleigh-Durham Plastic Surgeon

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Fat graft

Fat grafting is technique dependant. Some of the fat is absorbed, but these days should be minimal. There is also stem cells in the fat injected and that stem cells eventually differentiate to fat. For the face expect to redo the fat transfer a second time, For the labia majora, 90% of th fat stays. But expect swelling and bruising

Samir Shureih, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

Fat injection balancing act

The truth is somewhere in between. Fat injections can be permanent but a significant amount of the injected fat will resorb. Predicting the final result requires an estimate of the final outcome of thes two opposing actions.

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Fat Injections Designed To Be PERMANENT

The goal with any fat injection is for it to be permanent. The problem, though, is that you just do not know how much of the fat your body is going to resolve on its own. In some people, 50% of the fat will be resorbed over the first year, which is why it is not unusual to need multiple fat injection treatments to finally get to your desired goal. Once there, though, it should be very long lasting. I hope this helps.

Christopher V. Pelletiere, MD
Barrington Plastic Surgeon

Fat Transfer IS as PERMANENT as any filler can hope to be

Regarding: "Fat Injections - Can It Be Permanent? Hi! I`ve heard alot about fat injections, but im still very confused! If you get fat injections under your eyes or in labia majora, is that permanent? Or will it be absorbed by the body? Thank you!" Fat, like ALL living tissues, require an efficient blood supply for oxygen delivery and removal of metabolic byproducts. In the process of fat grafting, fat cells may be destroyed during harvest (trauma of suctioning),... more

Peter A. Aldea, MD
Memphis Plastic Surgeon

Fat Grafting and How Long Does It Last

Fat grafting can be permanent but what I tell my patients is that not all of it is permanent. Some of the fat that is injected does stay but some die off. So I say that to make the result permanent usually several sessions need to be performed to reach the ultimate result. In general I say that about 40-50% of what is injected remains, but again this is just an approximation. Hope that helps.

Farbod Esmailian, MD
Orange County Plastic Surgeon

Fat injections may be long term

Permanent, maybe, but that is hard to guarantee and prove. There are many people who have long term (years) augmentation from one or more fat injections. Fat injections are fat grafts. Some of the cells may live in the new environment, but not all. Several sessions can be done to get long term improvement. Some patients don't retain the fat grafts even after multiple attempts.

Ronald Shelton, MD
Manhattan Dermatologist

Fat Grafting - Permanent

Fat grafting when performed properly, is a permanent procedure. The fat has to be gently harvested, purified, and injected in order to achieve these results. When choosing a fat grafting surgeon, be sure to see before and after photos of their patients that are over a year after the procedure to determine how their results are. Click on the link below to see more information about fat grafting and the results. The first patient is 1 year and 3 months after only one round of... more

Jacob D. Steiger, MD
Boca Raton Facial Plastic Surgeon

If Done Well Fat Grafts Are Absolutely Permanent

As I have lectured on this a hundred times, when fat grafting is done well it has the blood supply like a hair transplant and actually starts to improve over time. Watch my videos to understand this (part 2 of my talk that I gave in Belgium 2 weeks ago is attached and explains this philosophy in detail). Btw, I only do facial work no female genitalia. best, dr. sam lam see video