I had fat injections with 22cc's between both cheeks 3 months ago. My face was very swollen the first 2 weeks before it slowly started to subside. It looks great now except the upper portion of my face has a wideness to it. Doctor recommended massaging the high/wide points, saying fat will still be re-absorbed at 3 months.
My cheeks seem to have retained most of the fat. Or is it absorbing fat very slowly? I'm concerned about the wide angles to my upper cheeks. Will this go away as the fat settles? Thanks.
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Fat transfer results can be a little unpredictable. The procedure involves harvesting fat from a ‘donor’ site, and then transferring it to another part of the body (often the face). This requires the fat cells to take up a new blood supply and ‘survive’ in their new location, which doesn’t...
As you pointed out, movement decreases the "take" of grafted tissues whether they are skin grafts or fat grafts. The survival, or take, of the fat requires that the blood vessels in the injected fat hook up with blood vessels in the bed where they are injected. If that happens, the...
In my limited experience, pregnancy can cause selective hypertrophy (overgrowth) of the transplanted fat. However, this is not a consistent finding and does not always occur. This makes it difficult to predict when it will or will not occur.