Category: fat injections

Fat Injection Drug For Neck Fat Reduction

It wasn’t all that long ago that the fat injection treatment, Lipodissolve, was tremendously popular. While used in many other countries before being introduced in the U.S. almost ten years ago, it achieved quick notoriety amongst numerous practitioners. Because it offered a non-surgical method of fat reduction, the public was equally if not more enamored Read More…

Medically-Safe Injections For Buttock Augmentation

The proven and effective method for buttock augmentation is through the use of soft flexible synthetic implants or fat injections. While each of these two approaches is not perfect and has their own advantages and disadvantages, they are safe medical therapies. But like in every other cosmetic procedure, patients do seek easier and less expensive Read More…

Options in Hand Rejuvenation

The face ages with a classic set of findings including the development of wrinkles, loose skin, fat atrophy and age or brown spots. The rest of the body ages as well but most of it does not have the amount of sun exposure to which the face is exposed. Therein lies the differences in Read More…

Temporal Augmentation with Fat Injections

A recent news story out of the UK in London headlined the transfer of fat from a man’s stomach to his head to reshape it. Given that fat injections to the face, breast and buttocks have become so popular over the past decade, such a story is at the very least noteworthy. The patient was Read More…

Eyebrow Rejuvenation with Fat Injections

Fat grafting to the face, done by injection, has become incredibly popular in the past decade. The recognition that most faces lose fat volume as they age has led to fat grafting done alone or in conjunction with other facial lifting procedures. One such area of volume addition in the aging face is that of Read More…

Buttock Anatomy and Fat Injection Augmentation

Buttock augmentation has become a part of mainstream body contouring plastic surgery. Creating a larger buttock has become desirous of those who have a normal size and just want to become bigger (ethnic buttock enhancement) to those who simply have never had one or ‘lost’ it at some point. Its popularity is largely due to Read More…

Facial Fat Compartments and Fat Injection Augmentation

‘Fat in the Face’ has become a topic of great interest in plastic surgery in the past few years. Understanding where the fat compartments and layers are in the face and how they influence the outward shape of the face has undergone a lot of anatomic study and descriptions recently. The main emphasis of these Read More…

Stem Cell Applications in Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

The field of stem cell research has spurned a lot of new potential medical applications. Enthusiasm is high as to what stem cells may do and many almost give them magical properties and disease curative capabilities. Much of this enthusiasm is at least partially warranted based on a large number of animal and cell Read More…

Outcomes of Fat Injections in Secondary Breast Reconstruction

Fat grafting by injection continues to grow in popularity and in number of applications. Whether it is for cosmetic or reconstructive purposes, it offers a very focused method for filling soft tissue defects. While fat injections are fairly simple, this does not mean they are without complications. How well the fat survives and does Read More…

Frozen Human Fat For Aesthetic Injection Treatments

Fat grafting has become very popular in plastic surgery with the face and buttocks being commonly injected sites. While the availability and harvesting of fat has always been easy through well established liposuction techniques, it is the understanding of fat aspirate concentration and injection technique that has made it a more reliable soft tissue Read More…