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How Long Do Fat Grafting Results Last?
I am trying to determine whether micro fat grafting is a better option for cheek augmentation than implants. I was researching it today and saw that some final results look great, better than any of the cheek augmentation photos I've seen. But I'm still apprehensive about taking this route. How long do micro fat grafting results usually last?
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Don
in Nashville, TN, US
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Facial fat grafting can last for years
With proper fat harvest and grafting techniques, fat injection to the mid-face and cheeks can result in volumization that can last for years. Regions of the face with motion (lips, nasal-labial folds etc) tend to not hold on to fat as long as the mid-face and cheek regions of the face. These regions are more static.
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Longevity of fat grafts
Fat grafting can have beautiful, natural, and permanent results. If you have weak cheek bones and normal cheek fat then implants may be the best for you. Most patients that I see are much better candidates for fat grafting than for cheek implants. The patient below is 5 years after fat injection to the cheeks.
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Fat Grafting Results Can be Permanent
Fat grafting has been performed by plastic surgeons for decades. There is no question that fat is the ideal material for soft tissue augmentation, and that the results obtained with fat grafting are the most natural-appearing. However, one problem with this procedure in years past has been resorption (breakdown) of the grafted fat, so that the resulting improvement is not permanent. The grafted fat must gain its own blood supply in its new location in order to persist long-term, and this...
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How long do fat grafting results last?
Don,
In answer to your questions1. "How long do fat grafting results last?" - If the fat survives the transfer it is like every other living tissue in the body. It lives almost as long as you do EXCEPT that if you lose weight they deflate and if you gain weight, it will fill up.
2. "trying to determine whether micro fat grafting is a better option for cheek augmentation than implants" - If the fat lives, it is a far better option because it does not share the potential...
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With proper injection technique, fat grafting can be permanent
Results can vary, depending upon several factors such as what area is being grafted and how it is placed. Fat grafting is a highly skilled procedure, requiring a surgeon with experience and knowledge to perform it successfully. The survival of the fat will depend upon those skills and will be the result of how the fat was harvested, how it was purified, and how and where it was injected. Specifically, a process called ‘micro fat grafting’, though labor intensive, is the best...
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Fat grafting can give very good long term results
Patients often ask how long fat grafts last. While very surgical technique dependent very long term results are certainly possible. Once the grafts take hold and "blossom" over the first 12-18 months the results should be evident for many years. Not even the fat that is naturally in your face lasts a lifetime -- we all lose it slowly over years. However, by refilling the volume loss with fat grafts you should always see an improvement compared with if you didn't have the...
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Fat Grafting Longevity- Why and How
The longevity of fat transfer will depend on 3 main factors that basically b:
1) Technique- Fat grafting is a technique sensitive procedure, meaning that fat survival will vary from surgeon to surgeon depending on how they perform this. Technique boils down to: 1) How the fat is removed / harvested 2) How the fat is processed / distilled and 3) How the fat is injected.
2) Where the fat is injected. Fat is very reliable in some areas while not being as reliable in others....
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Fat Grafting Results Permanent Improvement
Fat Grafting Results Permanent improvement in most cases. Micro fat grafting, also called structural fat grafting involves multiple injecions of very small amounts of fat injected in a series of discrete layers to allow for better revascularization and "take", gradually increasing the volume of new soft tissue. My experience is that it is a great minimally invasive procedure for cheek augmentation.
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Fat grafting longevity
The length of time that fat grafts last has quite a bit of variability between both the surgeon and the patient. Newer techniques using microagumentation and smaller size injections seems to help promote better fat survival. It tends to last the longest in the cheek areas and midface and less long in the nasolabial or smile regions. The temple areas are variable and the eyelid regions seem to persist. I hope this information helps.
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Fat Grafting is flexible
Fat Grafting to the cheek areas allows the surgeon to fill your cheeks precisely how you want it or as your body needs it.
Cheek implants have a shape and size and are limited in their ability to accomplish a complete fill of desired deficits.
Micro- or pearl sized fat grafts are ideal. I personally like the Viafill system to accomplish a complete, smooth, long-lasting result.
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