Category: buttock augmentation | buttock implants | fat injections | hip implants

Buttock And Hip Augmentation: Fat vs. Implants

There are two effective and well established techniques for either buttock or hip augmentation. They are either fat injections using your own liposuction harvest (Brazilian Butt Lift) or soft silicone elastomer implants that can neither rupture or leak. Each has their own advantages and disadvantages, as does every surgical technique, but both may not be Read More…

Fat Injections For Scar Therapy

Fat injections, also known as autologous lipofilling, continues to expand in usage in plastic surgery. While initially perceived as just a soft tissue filler, it has become known for improving the quality of the tissues into which it is injected. The precise mechanisms as to why this happens is not known but observations and anectodal Read More…

The Biology of Injectable Fat Grafting – When Will I See The Final Result?

The principal objective for fat grafting today is to serve as a soft tissue filler. Patients understandably expect that the fat that is injected will largely survive and they will retain much of the initial result for a successful outcome. A properly educated patient, however, will have been informed that fat graft survival is Read More…

The Biology of Injectable Fat Grafting – How Does It Work?

Injectable autologous fat grafting has been around about as long as liposuction but has only achieved widespread clinical use and acceptance more recently. Few skeptics remain in plastic surgery as to its potential utility or in the techniques to do it. The only semi-controversy about fat grafting is in the breast because of its unknown Read More…

Fat Injections for Lower Eyelid Retraction

The use of fat for soft tissue augmentation and in various reconstructive problems is now widely used. While it may not always survive as well as often as would be desired, and occasionally survives and grows too well, its easy accessibility and introduction into tissues lends itself to broad applications. One of the now very Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Fat Cell Biology

Other than skin, fat is the most commonly manipulated tissue by plastic surgeons. Most people think of fat removal by liposuction when they think of plastic surgery by fat transplantation by injection is becoming increasingly popular. But when fat cells are removed or transplanted the questions are whether they will come back or do they Read More…

Plastic Surgery History: Theories of Fat Graft Survival

Fat grafting in plastic surgery has been around for over a century. It has waxed and waned in popularity for a variety of reasons but has recently undergone a major resurgence in clinical use. The primary goal of fat grafting when performed by plastic surgeons has been the restoration of soft tissue loss or Read More…

Fat Injections in the Hand for Raynaud Phenomenon

For those who are afflicted with Raynaud phenomenon, the influence of cold weather on their hands or feet is all too well known. It is estimated that up to 2% of the population has Raynaud phenomenon in varying degrees and amount of symptoms. This is seen as vasoconstriction of part or all of the digits Read More…

Submental Neck Fat Reduction by Injection – Clinical Trial Results of ATX-101 (Kybella)

Since the days of Lipodissolve, which was a rage in the early 2000s, the search for an injectable fat dissolving drug has been ongoing. Taking one of the original compounds used in Lipodissolve, deoxycholic acid (DCA), Kythera has been doing clinical trials for its injectable drug ATX-101. This is a purified synthetic version of DCA Read More…

The Benefits of Fat Grafting in Facial Reshaping Surgery

Facial skeletal surgery, what I often call facial structural surgery, offers many options for changing the form of the face. From jaw repositioning to bone reshaping to implants, significant foundational changes can be done. While much of facial skeletal surgery is done in the young (under age 45), this does exclude older patients as well. Read More…