A lot of doctors have been responding to patient questions with "wait 3-6 months for the final result". I have seen this response re: worries of being overfilled & of losing all of the grafted fat. My question is, besides the decrease in swelling & the reabsorption of dead fat, what happens to the actual fat cells that survive? Does gaining a blood supply do anything other than maintain? Do they become more plump/grow by 6 months? Do they shrink? Stay the same? There isn't a lot of info on this.
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Answer: How do transferred fat cells behave? Fat grafting 101
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Facial fat grafting tends to have a higher percentage of the fat survive than does grafting in other areas of the body. Any facial fat that remains after 3 months or so has an established blood supply and will continue to live. Some of the fat grafted will be lost, but about 70 to 90% of th...