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Our patients love facial fat transfer for lasting restoration of volume loss. Once that fat is integrated into your facial tissues, it will live there indefinitely. This is one of the main differences to injectable fillers. The procedure is office based. Recovery for full face fat grafting is about a good week.
Dear sjmerkle,Thank you for your question. Fat transfer has the potential to last much longer than filler treatment, though its duration is more unpredictable. We typically inform our patients that 50% of the fat injected remains at one year out from a procedure. We recommend you seek an in-person consultation with a facial plastic surgeon or plastic surgeon who can provide a thorough evaluation and discuss the best treatment options for restoring volume to your face.
Hi, thanks for your question. If the fat is well integrated it will last forever. But you have to make sure that your condition is not an aging process (face flacidity), because if its the case you will need a Facelit.Member of the AMerican Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS)
Facial fat grafting is a nice way to enhance the appearance of someone with facial wasting. I tell patients that about 50-60% of the fat usually survives and they may want additional fat grafting sessions to reach their goal.
Facial fat transfer, also known as facial fat grafting or lipoinjection, is a cosmetic procedure that involves injecting fat into the face to restore volume and improve the appearance of the skin: How it worksFat is extracted from another part of the body, usually the abdomen, thighs, or...
One of the benefits of a fat graft is that the transplanted fat actually incorporates itself into your skin and resvascularizes there, which will strengthen and plump your skin. So, actually, it’s quite good for thin skin to have a fat graft! One caveat is that some of the fat will die. In f...
You have a difficult problem. Correcting excess of liposuction it's difficult and at times not possible. The primary reason fat grafting is limited in your case is the lack of tissue to graft fat into. The amount of tissue left after your excessive liposuction is thin. Putting in high volumes of...
