Category: cheek implants | fat grafting

Cheek Implants and Fat Grafting for Facial Lipoatrophy

Facial lipoatrophy, sometimes referred to as facial wasting, is the loss of fat in the face usually in the cheek and temple areas. It is not necessarily loss of fat in all cases, in some it is simply that it was never there to start. It really represents a failure of adequate development of Read More…

Fat Transplantation and Grafting in Plastic Surgery

Despite the more recent public awareness of fat removal by liposuction and fat injections for volume addition in the past 20 years, the use of fat in plastic surgery has been around for over 50 years. The history of liposuction dates back to the early 20th century with the famous first case of unsuccessful liposuction Read More…

Fat, Liposuction and Fat Injections – Questions Yet To Be Answered

As a plastic surgeon, I certainly am asked and do treat a lot of fat concerns. Whether it be liposuction treatments for fat removal or fat injections for adding volume somewhere, plastic surgeons probably handle more fat than any other medical specialty. Yet, we still do not understand much of its physiology and its response to Read More…

The Many Options for Buttock Reshaping

An Overview of Techniques to Beautify the Buttocks The appearance and shape of the buttocks has taken on great interest in the past few years. Whether it be too big, too flat, or sagging with age, the interest in improving one’s buttocks has never been this great in the world of plastic surgery. Much of Read More…