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The Use of Fat Graft Injections to the Face for Volumetric Augmentation

  While now nine different synthetic injectable fillers exist for the cosmetic treatment of facial lines and wrinkles, none of them are permanent. As they are all artificially-created materials, the body will eventually absorb or break them down so their plumping effect dissipates with time. Fat from your own body remains as a very appealing Read More…

Fat Injections to the Face – A Concept Which Continues To Intrique

  Despite the many off-the-shelf injectable fillers which currently exist, none of them can promise permanent results or complete biocompatibility and lack of any type of foreign-body reaction in everyone. Only one’s own fat, when done as an injection, can potentially fulfill those promises. But fat has another problem…..its survival after injection is unpredictable and Read More…

LipoDissolve (Kybella) Injections For The Treatment Of Lipomas

  Lipomas are fatty tumors that can appear anywhere on the body from the scalp to the legs. They are soft, easily moveable (non-adherent) masses under the skin that are always round in diameter. They are usually right under the skin and are very slow growing. Most patients seen usually just have one in isolation. Read More…

Getting Rid Of Fat – Liposuction vs. Lipodissolve (Kybella)

  Even though we are in the middle of the summer (or maybe because we are), you may have decided to get serious about getting rid of those unsightly fat areas that diet and exercise just won’t. But with different methods of fat removal available, which one is right for you? It may be tempting Read More…

Fat Injections for Calf Augmentation

  Augmentation of the calfs is most consistently done with a synthetic implant. Most patients who seek calf augmentation are typically body builder types, those born with very thin calfs who have been unable to build them up, or sosmeone with significant calf asymmetry. Despite an implant’s predictable improvement in the size and shape of Read More…

Fat Injections for Buttock Augmentation

  Buttock augmentation is most consistently done with a gluteal implant. Despite its predictable improvement in the size and shape of the buttocks, buttock implants are not without complications. Intramuscular implant placement makes recovery more uncomfortable and having to sit on the implant predisposes it to positional shifting and the formation of fluid collections and Read More…

Patient Classification for Lipodissolve Injections – The Key to Success

  LipoDissolve offers an alternative non-surgical treatment option for select fat problems. While liposuction, when it was originally in the United States in 1981, was to be used for ‘spot reduction’ (and we know its application has been extended well beyond that initial use), successful use of LipoDissolve really depends on the spot reduction concept. Read More…

Effectiveness of LipoDissolve and Mesotherapy for Fat Reduction

  In the most recent issue of our prestiguous journal, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (April), I read an article on evaluating the effectiveness of mesotherapy on body contouring. This was a study out of Seoul, Korea on 20 women who had mesotherapy injections on their inner thighs on one side and not the other over Read More…

Fat Transplantation and Grafting in Plastic Surgery

Despite the more recent public awareness of fat removal by liposuction and fat injections for volume addition in the past 20 years, the use of fat in plastic surgery has been around for over 50 years. The history of liposuction dates back to the early 20th century with the famous first case of unsuccessful liposuction Read More…

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