How Much Physical Pressure Can Cause Fat Cell Death?

Question

I have been doing massages around the eye area and in the sockets using quite hard firm pressure. I noticed that my eyes seem to have lost some fat around them. I was wonderiing how much pressure would you need to apply to damage and kill the fat cells around the eyes? can will the fat be able to come back?

Kenneth Hughes, MD · Answer

Trauma to fat can cause cell death, but massage would have to apply enough pressure to cause this.

	 

	 

	Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA

Raj S. Ambay, MD · Answer

Not certain why a massage is needed. Certainly applying too much pressure could kill the fat graft and/ or displace the at to an unwanted location. See your plastic surgeon to get specifics on his/her protocol.

Samir Shureih, MD · Answer

I do not know why you need to massage the fat around the eye with such amount of pressure. Fat cells are very sensitive to pressure and may cause fat necrosis. The fat cells would die at the pressure that would block the circulation, then the fat cell would die.

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