I had fat transfer injections into cheeks 8 days ago. Will taking steroids for inflammation this close to transfer harm it? I have noticed the fat going away quickly since I started the anti-iflammatory medicine yesterday. It is Methylpredinisolone tablets @ 4mg (total 21 tabs to be taken over 7 day period).
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June 6, 2010
Answer: Fat injections
Ron Shelton, MDDermatologic Surgeon, Board Certified in Dermatology
Certainly, hollowness can be improved by adding volume to the area and this can be done with fillers and fat. If you want to see if you like the effect before even going to the expense of fillers or surgery for fat grafting, you might ask a plastic surgeon to test the area by injecting...
Fat grafting is accompanied by swelling and inflammation which subsides in 10-14 days or so. You will also see a loss in volume associated with non-taking of some of the grafted fat but this would take longer to fully see.
If you want to follow it with Restylane, I would prefer that the...
Fat transfer is associated with significant swelling and it is impossible to see at this time how effective the treatment has been. The long term correction would depend on the amount of fat which survives the transfer and "takes". Augmentation with a hyaluronic acid filler may have...