Category: fat grafting | fat injections

Fat Injections in the Treatment of Facial Aging

The use of one’s own fat for the correction of a variety of aesthetic and reconstructive soft tissue needs in plastic surgery is now more than just a fad. It has rapidly become an established technique even though much of the science as to how it works, and sometimes does not work, is far from Read More…

Calf Augmentation with Fat Injections

The shape of the lower third of the leg is highlighted by the appearance of the calfs. Whether they are big, small or somewhere in between, they are the dominant shape between the knee and ankle. The shape of the calfs is largely controlled by the size of the paired medial and lateral heads of Read More…

The Fat Grafting Science Behind The Brazilian Butt Lift

The Brazilian Butt Lift is one of the most popular and talked about body contouring procedures in the past few years. Driven by celebrities, models and the desire for a certain look in clothes, a rounder and fuller buttock shape has taken on a new level of aesthetic desire and sensuality. While it is often Read More…

The Stem Cell Facelift Revealed

Many treatments have been touted over the years to create a facelift-like effect from topical creams to devices in lieu of having the actual surgical procedure. Today’s ‘alternative facelifts’ have taken on a very different approach and it is done through largely an injectable approach. These are all about adding volume to the face, plumping Read More…

Fat Injections for the Treatment of Dry Mouth From Irradiation

Radiation for a variety of head and neck cancers is well known to affect all tissues in its path. Since the parotid gland frequently is involved in radiation portals, it receives unintentional radiation and suffers the side effects of such exposure. This almost always causes some degree of dry mouth or xerostomia. When xerostomia Read More…

Fat Injections for the Treatment of the Double Bubble Deformity in Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation is the ‘simple’ procedure of placing an implant to increase the size of the breast. It does so by pushing out the overlying soft tissue and creating a bigger mound. While the increase in breast size is always completely predictable, the final shape that the breast will achieve is not. The breast may Read More…

Contemporary Thoughts on Fat Grafting in Plastic Surgery

Reshaping faces and body through a ‘recycling’ approach by fat transfers is not necessarily a new technique. Fat grafting has been around for over 100 years but never gained much popularity until the past decade. As new techniques and research have revealed insights into how to improve the survival of fat grafts, the regenerative capabilities Read More…

Kybella Injections for Neck Fat Reduction

The removal of fat without liposuction has led to a wide variety of non-surgical treatment approaches. These include numerous energy-based treatments which are applied externally. While one can debate the merits of the various devices and their technologies, they all have limits in terms of effectiveness and the speed at which results are seen. This Read More…

Options for Natural Cheek Augmentation

One of the key features of an attractive and youthful face is the cheek area. The desire for fuller cheeks, however, is driven more than just by that of model and celebrity faces. Part of the aging process is losing volume (fat) in the cheeks and temple areas, creating more hollowed or gaunt type look. Read More…

Brow Augmentation by Fat Injections

One of the reasons that fat grafting has become so popular in plastic surgery is its versatility. Because of small cannula delivery techniques, fat grafts can literally be placed just about anywhere in any amounts. This has led to fat grafting becoming a near universal method for soft tissue augmentation and, more selectively, bony augmentation. Read More…