Fat Transfer to face age 60 - Melbourne, FL

Hi everyone. It's one year later and unfortunately I have to admit, the fat transfer did not take as well as I had hoped. Some of the fat stayed, maybe 15% I'm guessing. The lips, not at all. The face could and should have been over filled, because my girlfriend said I looked good fit two months and after that it just disappeared. Hope this helps!

My face has gotten very hollow over the years, and so I went to a local dermatologist to see about fillers, and the total cost he quoted me was just over $9,000 for Sculptra and Juvaderm for face and lips and all the various hollows of my face, including also under eye areas. That would only last 2 years maximum, so I started searching for other ideas and came across fat transfer, which I has heard about from another surgeon when I had a facelift in 2007, but at that time it was not really very mainstream yet. I think in the past 5 years, it's gotten much easier to find.

So on 10/16/17 I decided to go ahead and try this because my face was really so hollowed out, I figured anything would help. I ended up choosing Roger Bassin MD, because he was on Dr. Oz, I was able to see his videos on YouTube of the exact procedure (he did it on the show). He created his own trademarked procedure called Aqualipo and Naturalfill, which as best I can understand is a way of getting the fat out with a high speed water jet and then the fat goes right into a depot which separates the stem cell enhanced fat and then straight into your face or wherever you need it.

The procedure was not very long, maybe an hour or hour and half. He prescribed meds for anxiety and meds for pain to be taken 1 hour prior, so you feel very good going in. I think they also numbed the area because I really had no pain, only pressure. The only part that hurt was the lips. My lips are just really teenyl, I figured I would try to see if I could pump them up some, but it seems fat has a hard time staying there, (at least on me). You feel stuff going on and you are awake, but you really don't care. I think the anxiety meds are really quite good!

The part I had liposuction on were my two posterior flanks. They really did not even have to be bandaged for more than a day, they healed up very quickly. And as far as the face healing, I really don't like going out when I look even a little off, so I waited a good week before I went out in public. But if you don't do lips, I think it's no problem.

So my final analysis is I really love the fact that fat is permanent. In fact, if I gain weight, my face will get fuller according to some surgeons I have listened to on YouTube. I kind of like staying in shape, but now I am considering liposuction as opposed to any dieting, because as you get older, it really does come off the face (depending on how your unique body stores fat, of course). I can really see doing this again in a couple years to really plump up the face. It is really worth it, in my opinion, so much more than fillers, which tend to dissipate rather quickly. Right now I am just a little over 60 days and very happy. Let me know what you ladies think and I am happy to answer your questions!