Long term risks of undergoing facial fat grafting?

If your facial fat transfer procedure is successful then it should carry no long-term complications risks.

Of the possible risks included for a facial fat transfer the most common by far is an undesirable aesthetic outcome.

Other potential problems involved could be facial nerve injuries or injuries to underlying structures such as the parotid gland.

Fat transfer around the eyes could potentially cause injuries to the eyeball itself which could at its worst lead to blindness.

Fortunately these complications are fairly rare.

Facial fat transfer can be unforgiving at times and I suggest you only let someone with proven expertise talent and experience do this procedure for you.

It is particularly challenging in thin areas around the eyes.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom M.D.

Fat is living tissue and acts  like the area from where it was taken, not like the fat where it's put in. I have been doing fat injections for more than 25 years and one learns things over a long time period that you don't discover if you just started doing it.   The main LONG term risk is that it grows. This is usually related to gain in body weight. If fat was taken form the abdomen or hips or places that put on fat,  the  grafted fat will grow as well. This usually happens on youngish people who get fat and then have kids and get menopausal and  put on weight, though I have seen I happen in a few people who didn't gain weight too. The increase in fat almost never looks good and is hard to remove, Almost never can you go back completely to what it used to look like. . For that reason I am VERY conservative about using fat in people less than about 45 or so. The immediate results can look great, but the long term, 5-20 years down the line can  look terrible.