What is the Best Way to Obtain Fat for Fat Transfer?

i read on a doctor's site that it's vaser. is this true? I thought it was tumescent liposuction

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6 Doctor Answers | Asked by boobies128 in NYC

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No best way

Though there are many different techniques to harvesting fat for injection, and many different companies marketing their method as "the best", there is currently no well designed scientific study done by unbiased researchers that has proven one technique to be better than another. We all have anecdotal experiences in terms of "what works best in my hands". Ask your surgeon for before and after results to see if their results are acceptable to you. Even then, there is no guarantee in... more

A.J. Amadi, MD

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Seattle Oculoplastic Surgeon

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Fat transfer method

Dear boobies128, The method of harvesting does not matter as long as it is done gently You should focus more on the results of procedure rather than how it is done The best method is just a matter of opinion Best regards, Nima Shemirani

Obtaining Viable Fat for Grafting

The difference between a 50% fat "take" of the past and the 80-90% take that we can obtain now is the technique for suctioning the fat and the processing of the fat to gently remove the tumescent fluid and most of the damaged/or ruptured fat cells. The second major difference is that it is realized that fat grafting should be a delicate and highly accurate procedure. Delicacy is satisfied by obtaining the fat by using the most atraumatic of methods; this means tumescent... more

Paul S. Howard, MD

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Birmingham Plastic Surgeon

What is the best way to obtain fat for fat transfer or grafting?

Given that there are so many methods there is not one that so far stands alone. We know that smaller fat grats usually do better and we want to avoid clumping the graft together.

Best way to harvest fat for Autologous Fat Transfer

There are several methods for extracting fat from the body for the use of fat grafting. I have personally used standard or traditional tumescent liposuction, the tulip system (syringes), Lipivage, and the VASER system. All of these methods use low negative pressure. The first 3 methods tend to harvest some connective tissue with the fat. I prefer the VASER because the fat does not have a bunch of connective tissue dispersed within the grafting material. You don't want to put fat that has... more

Fat Transfer

For fat transfer the fat removed by liposuction should be removed very gently, without the use of any form of energy such as ultrasound and laser because these forms of energy will kill the fat cells. The fat is removed by tumescent technique either by syringe liposuction or if the suction machine is used then it should be used at half the power. This is to ensure survival of the fat. The technique used to purify the fat needs to be precise and gentle to assure survival of the fat cells. more