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I Am 7 Weeks After my Full Face Fatgrafting and the Fat is Almost All Gone is This Normal?
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nicky in san diego ca
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Transferred fat needs good blood supply to survive.
I find that usually about 50% of the fat remains, and it can be up to 70-80% for some people. Fat grafts need a good blood supply in order to survive, and this can be one of the biggest contributors to unsuccessful fat grafting. Those who smoke often have a compromised blood supply and are at bigger risk for unsuccessful fat transfers. It's unlikely that all the fat has been reabsorbed after just 7 weeks unless it did not have a good blood supply. Also a thing to...
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Survival of at grafting to the face.
It's a little unusual for the fat to be completely gone in 7 weeks. Probably the swelling, which can be significant, is gone and it looks less volumized by comparison. However, fat grafting is very technique oriented. When done by someone experienced, the survival can be up to 70-80%. Fat must be harvested very tediously, prepared carefully and by specifically nd then inbjected by the smallest of amounts (like micro-droplets). Fat grafts must be small enough to aquire a blood supply fo...
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Fat Grafting
For fat grafting to truly represent 'grafting', the grafted tissue must gain a blood supply in its new location which provides a source of oxygen and nutrients and allows the tissue to persist indefinitely. If the grafted fat does not acquire a blood supply in the first few weeks after surgery, the body will gradually break it down and dissolve it, and no long-term benefit will be achieved in terms of soft tissue augmentation. Successful fat grafting surgery therefore requires a...
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It is very likely that the fat is still there.
There is no substitute for reviewing photos. Unless your surgeon really did not put much volume in, there is no reason to believe that the fat is gone. Generally 60-70% of the grafted fat survives. However, what is true is that the swelling associated with the fat grafting disappears around this time frame creating the impression that the fat volume has disappeared. It is for this reason that I am not a big fat transfer fan. It is a set up to want more grafted...
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Fat graft
Fat graft to the face is very technique sensitive and experience matters.One should expect at least 60-80% of the fat to stay long long term. Review this with your surgeon and compare to the preoperative pictures.
Or consult another Board Certified Plastic Surgeon (American Board Of Plastic Surgery).
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon
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Fat Grafting at 7 Weeks
Fat grafting to the face should persist much longer than 7 weeks. I have found the improved facial contour from fat grafting to last years not weeks. There are very few patients which have required "touch ups" or additional fat grafting in my practice. I believe the manner in which the fat is harvested and the location the fat is harvested from affects the longevity of the fat graft. In addition, I have found that patients who are on a low carbohydrate diet after fat grafting to...
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Fat grafts gone at 7 weeks?
It's common to feel as though the grafted fat is disappearing as the post-treatment facial swelling goes down. In my experience, it takes many months for the final fact grafting result to become evident. Studies show that the fat grafts continue to 'blossom" up to 18 months or so after surgery.
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7 week post fat grafting
It is not uncommon for patient to feel that the injected fat is all gone after the initial swelling goes down. I would suggest being patient and then evaluating the outcome, preferably comparing pre-op and post-op photos at 3-6 month.
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I Am 7 Weeks After my Full Face Fatgrafting and the Fat is Almost All Gone is This Normal?
IMHO, fat transfer or grafting is not as reliable as cheek implants or off the shelf soft tissue filelrs like Perlane or Radiesse. For that reason, I do not uise fat grafting for shaping and contouring the face. I want something that's relaible each and every time and that certainly isn't fat, IMO.
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Fat Survival After Facial Injection
The take of fat after injection into the face is both unpredictable and variable. I have seen results that range from complete loss of the fat to fat injection sites that actually have overgrown and need to be reduced later. My observation is what you see in most cases by three months is the amount of fat that has taken and survived. If your perception that by nearly two months after surgery all the fat is gone, then that is likely true. Is this a normal result?...yes it can be. Is is what...
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