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Opinions on Stem Cell Facelift?
Is the "stem cell facelift" hype or something worth looking into? I have seen wonderful before and after photos, but I have learned not to always trust them. Thank you for your input.
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jackster212
in west palm beach, florida
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Stem Cell Facelift
Many plastic surgeons who perform structural fat grafting report that patients often describe a variety of improvements in their facial skin following fat grafting surgery. This observation has led to the use of fat grafting in reconstructive surgery, for instance in the management of chronic wounds such as those seen in some patients following radiation treatment for cancer. Fat grafting into the tissues below a chronic, non-healing wound has been shown to stimulate successful wound healing...
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The term "Stem Cell Facelift" is inaccurate
In accordance with a few other commentators, I would have to disagree with the merits of this title. However, I have to emphasize that we are entering an exciting time in facial rejuventation and medicine in general, as we learn more about the therapeutic effects of adult adipose-derived stem cells.
There is encouraging scientific and clinical evidence that the stem cells withn fat grafts has an additional "regenerative" effect in the surrounding tissue. In fact,...
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Santa Monica Plastic Surgeon
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Stem Cell Facelift
Stem cell facelifts have been marketed as a new facial rejuvenation tool when in reality we have been performing a variant of that for many years - fat grafting (fat transfer). There are many stem cells in fat and by transferring the fat to the face (or other body part) there is not just a filling effect but a rejuvenative effect on the skin and perhaps other tissues. In a "stem cell facelift" some fat may be removed and stem cells isolated then added to other fat (also called...
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You are right - it is marketing hype.
Dr. Pozner is absolutely right. Fat transfer to the face has been done for years with good results. But you got to admire the sheer marketing blarney of re-labeling it as a "Stem Cell Facelift"...Personally, I would pick a surgeon who does not resort to such self promotion.
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Stem Cell Face Lift is just marketing hype
Fat grafting has been about in various forms for many years.
Dr. Sidney Coleman of New York has popularized fat grafting which is so far no different than stem cell grafting. It can be used to fill out the fat depleted face and does nothing long term for the neck and does not alter the jowls but rather disguises them.
In my hands the recovery and distortion after adequate fat grafting is actually longer than a face-lift because you have to overcorrect the face to allow for fat adsorbtion...
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Stem Cell Facelift more hype than anything else
Dear Jackster
It is true that fat does contain adult stem cells. So some enterprising surgeons have repackaged their facial fat transfer procedures as the "stem cell facelift." Does this mean that stem cells are responsible for facial improvement after fat transfer? There is not even a speck of evidence that this would be the case. Fat transfers do help the facial appearence by replacing lost facial volume.
The problem with assessing the before and after pictures is that...
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It is hype
i been doing fat grafting to the face for the last 12 years and there is some changes to the skin.I do not think tht stem cell will lift your tissue,and give the same results as the face lift. If you have loss of fat and volume in your face,the fat injection will help.
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Stem cell facelift refers to a cell enhanced fat graft
The term 'stem cell facelift' surfaced more than 4 years ago as a marketing term to describe a surgical technique of rejuvenating the face. The term refers to the process by which a fat graft is cell enhanced with freshly isolated adipose derived stem cells.
Freshly isolated adipose stem cells are obtained by enzymatic digestion of adipose tissue. Therefore a 'stem cell facelift' is a supercharged fat graft enhanced with isolated mesenchymal stem cells...
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Stem Cell Facelift is Re-Branded Fat Grafting
A "Stem Cell Facelift" looks like it is a branded variety of fat grafting. Fatty tissue tends to have a high level of stem cells. Further processing them to have higher concentrations of stem cells is probably not worth the effort or cost. Fat cells contain stem cells and serve well to augment tissues that may have atrophied with time. This is believed to aid in the healing and rejuvenation of tissues, but research into this phenomenon is not far enough along to produce predictable...
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Truth About Stem Cell Facelifts
There is no such thing as a stem cell facelift. It is purely a marketing hype with no scientific basis. There are photos on the internet stating that an individual has had a stem cell facelift when in actuality it was indeed fat injections or other filler to the face, but cannot be directly correlated to having rejuvenated effects from stem cell on the face. Once again, this is Long on marketing and Short on science. In the true science of aging, we know that we do lose fat in our face and...
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"Stem Cells" in cosmetic medicine = Modern Snake Oil
Yes, there are some exciting advances in science where stem cells have been isolated from fat, but their uses are currently in the research stage. That does not prevent un-ethical individuals from promoting “space age” cosmetic procedures, claiming that they can use stem cells to rejuvenate the skin and return elasticity (the Holy Grail of aging). Currently it is nothing more than fat grafting and a nefarious marketing technique. Please watch the CBS video before...
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Stem Cell Facelift- Marketing Hype or Misnomer?
Add two highly charged words such as "stem cell" and "facelift" together and you have a marketing bonanza. Unfortunately that's all you have because a stem cell facelift does not exist. Stem cells do add a beneficial effect to fat grafting by increasing the viability of the fat grafts and by providing a rejuvenating effect on the skin through the growth factors and cytokines stimulated by stem cells.Yet there is no lifting effect caused by either the grafts used for volume...
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"Stem cell facelift" is nonsense.
Embarassingly, although plastic surgeons have been injecting fat for years, we know little about the biophysiology of the transfer including the fate of the fat cells and the role of stem cells.
A well executed facelift gives good and predictable results. Fat injections are unpredictable and have a limited role in facial rejuvenation.
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Face Lift, Stem Cell Face Lift
Sadly, complete hype.
Stem Cell Face Lifts are nothing more exotic than your own fat treated to isolate the naturally occuring stem cells within your fat which is then injected into your face like traditional fat transfer. Stem Cell Face Lifts may plump up the face but there's no evidence to support claims that these stem cells will magically rejuvenate your face.
Stem Cell Face Lifts can't:
tighten the underlying SMAS muscle layer
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Stem cell facelift
What a great marketing tool name for basically fat injections in combination with a facelift. ...which is what it is! No great mystery.
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Stem cell facelifts are marketing
Fat transfers are thought to provide stem cells but the idea of a stem cell facelift would just be marketing at the present time. No such thing.
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Stem Cell Facelift
You are probably referring to a procedure where the patient's fat is transplanted to the face to replace volume lost with aging. In some individuals this will rejuvenate the face without removal of excess skin. See results in patients with a similar facial structure and physical changes secondary to aging.
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Stem cell facelift
There has been no scientific evidence in literature to support anything related to stem cell facelifts. This is more of a marketing term. It is probably best to interview a couple of patients in person to see what the results really look like.
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"Stem cell facelift" is only a name.
Are they removing extra skin at the same time they are filling the face with fat? What is being done on the neck? You are right to be cautious. Tell the surgeon you want to meet with a patient that has aging face similar to yours that is 1 year post-op with her before pictures. Good surgeons have post op patients who are willing to meet with you. They are busy enough that there is a similar patient for you to meet with in their office every week.
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