Fat Transfer into Buccal Space?

In order for grafted fat to survive there Hass to be an abundance of host tissue to graft fat into.

Fat grafting works better for giving diffuse overall volume and not for putting a significant amount in a limited space.

This is the inherent limitation and why you simply can’t reverse buccal fat pad removal.

Grafting from inside the mouth increases contamination and it doesn’t increase the amount of host tissue to graft into. it increases chances of grafting fat into structural components of the cheek like the parotid gland.

Continue to warn people to be careful about having buccal fat pad removal because with enough time patients seem to eventually regret having had the procedure.

It is not an easy procedure to reverse. fellers are predictable precise and forgiving and that is probably the way to go rather than fat grafting.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom MD