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Foot Fat Grafting for Chronic Pain

  Chronic foot pain of various causes is a not uncommon problem. Pain that emanates from the heel pad region of the foot is most frequently due to plantar fasciitis (bottom of the heel) and Achilles tendonitis. (back of the heel) While some heel pain problems resolve by conservative measures such as rest, shoe support, Read More…

An Enhanced Material for Eye Fat Injections (Nanofat)

Aging around the eyes occurs just like that of the rest of the face through loss of volume and thinning of the skin with wrinkle formation. While a variety of well known surgical techniques are available to rejuvenate the eye area (blepharoplasty and browlifts), the use of eye fat injections  is still regarded as precarious Read More…

The Use of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) in Fat Grafting

Injectable Fat-grafting, also known as lipofilling, has become a standard plastic surgery treatment in a wide variety of aesthetic and reconstructive needs of the face and body. Although technical improvements have increased the concentration of fat cells injected, the amount of fat graft survival is still unpredictable and far less than 100%. Various methods have been Read More…

Techniques in Fat Injection Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation remains as one of the most popular female body enhancement procedures in the world. It creates an instantaneous and assured effect because of the placement of an implant into the breast tissues. While an implant creates a dramatic and sustained long-term effect, it is an implant which incurs all of the potential risks Read More…

Technical Strategies – Fat Injections for Chin Dimple Reduction

Chin dimples are a not uncommon but anatomically perplexing facial feature. Sitting as a round central depression on the soft tissue chin pad, it serves no functional purpose other than a distinctive facial adornment. Like all facial dimples the cause has been shown to be caused by an underlying muscle deformity, specifically that of the Read More…

Steroid Injections for Periorbital Lipogranulomas

Fat injections have become a widely used cosmetic procedure for a variety of aesthetic facial concerns. Fat grafts are viewed as safer than any other injectable material since it is an extract of the patient’s own tissues. Despite its safety fat injections are not perfect and they are prone to aesthetic complications of which irregular Read More…

Power-Assisted Fat Injection Buttock Augmentation (Brazilian Butt Lift)

Buttock augmentation by fat injections, more commonly known as the Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL), has become widely popular over the past decade. The simultaneous body contouring by a liposuction fat harvest and the use of the fat for buttock augmentation offers a dual body contouring benefit. Compared with the use of buttock implants, a fat Read More…

Case Study: Brazilian Butt Lift

Background: One of the most commonly requested body contouring surgeries today is that of the Brazilian Butt Lift.  (aka BBL) While sounding both Brazilian and touting a butt lift, it is really buttock augmentation by fat injections. Fat is derived from liposuction of any body area that one wants reduced. The buttock augmentation is then Read More…

Fat Injections for Chronic Scalp Pain and Tightness

Tightness and pain after scalp surgery is fairly uncommon. The scalp can become tight after a variety of procedures for aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. Usually these procedures have one thing in common…closure of a scalp wound after tissue loss. The tissue loss may be from removal of a benign or malignant tumor or for a Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Fat Grafting after Breast Implant Removal

Background: Breast implants provide a volume enhancement to the breasts that in many cases will last a lifetime. While no breast implants last forever, most women choose to replace them when that need occurs. But a few women eventually choose to remove their breast implants due to problems such as capsular contracture, pain and implant Read More…

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