Category: fat grafting | fat injections

Fat Injections as a Potential Scar Therapy

The re-emergence of fat grafting and its now widespread use can be credited to many factors. But one of the most significant of these is the realization that fat is a ubiquitous connective tissue which contains a plethora of stem cells. Many of the improvements in tissue quality seen after fat grafting have been credited Read More…

Use of the Brava Device in Fat Injection Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation is one of the top cosmetic plastic surgery procedures performed today. It has a relatively long history and its success is based on using either a saline or silicone gel breast implant to achieve its breast expansion effect. Like many medical devices, it is tremendously successful but not complication free. With breast implants Read More…

Fat Injection Grafting to the Breast – Safety and Effectiveness

Fat grafting is an emerging and versatile technique in plastic surgery. While it can be used just about anywhere on the body, one of the trendiest areas for fat injections is the breast. Whether it is for reconstruction of breast defects or cosmetic enlargement, fat has become an accepted method of soft tissue volume enhancement Read More…

Fat Injections in Breast Augmentation and Breast Reconstruction

Belly fat has been an historic scourge of the vast majority of the American population for a long time. Much of the popularity of liposuction can be traced to the desire to reduce unwanted belly fat. But to illustrate that even bad things have a silver lining, fat has been shown to be a Read More…

The Role of Graft Preparation in Fat Injection Augmentation

Autologous fat grafting has become a widely used technique in plastic surgery for both reconstructive problems and aesthetic concerns. Even though it is extensively used and touted, one of the realities of fat grafting is that it is not a completely predictable method of soft tissue augmentation. Volume loss occurs to variable degrees in Read More…

Fat Injections in the Treatment of Linear Facial Scleroderma (Parry Romberg Syndrome)

Systemic Sclerosis is a chronic connective tissue disease that is characterized by subcutaneous fat atrophy, replacement by scar and poor vascularity. It has two main types, diffuse and limited. Limited or linear scleroderma most commonly affects the face and the extremities. As it occurs on the face it is better known to plastic surgeons as Read More…

Brazilian Butt Lift in Thin Patients

The success of buttock augmentation by fat injection depends, first and foremost, on having enough fat to harvest. If not enough volume of fat is available, it does not matter how well it survives as the buttock result will be inadequate. This has made the use of buttock fat grafting in thin patients historically not Read More…

Buttock Augmentation in Men

Buttock augmentation has grown in popularity over the past decade from a scant few patients who received implants to large numbers of patients today that receive fat injections. Regardless of the augmentation technique, enhancement of the derriere has been almost exclusively the domain of women. Fashion trends, particularly amongst certain ethnicities, has made having Read More…

Plastic Surgery Practice Trends in Fat Grafting to the Breast

Breast surgery, whether it is for aesthetic or reconstructive purposes, is one of the most common forms of plastic surgery of the body. Over the past decade fat grafting has worked its way into a mainstream technique for all forms of breast reshaping/remaking surgery. It has become so pervasive based on articles in peer-reviewed journals Read More…

Blepharoplasty with Fat Injections

The most common procedure for rejuvenation of the periorbital area is surgical blepharoplasty. Removing skin from the upper and lower eyelids as well as fat mainly from the lower eyelid can make the eyes appear refreshed and more open. But tissue excess is not the exclusive problem that occurs around the eyes as they age. Read More…