Category: facelift | fat injections | platelet-rich plasma

Autologous (Patient-Derived) Injectable Fillers For Facial Rejuvenation

Filling of the deflated and aging face has become as popular as any method of facelifting. Using numerous and differing combinations of injectable fillers, certain areas of the face can be volumetrically expanded. To some degree and in the right locations, this does create a lifting effect although the use of that term is a Read More…

Quantification of Platelet-Rich Plasma Mixtures for Use in Plastic Surgery

Using elements of one’s own blood to heal wounds or to regenerate new tissues is a new and popular concept in plastic surgery. Whether they are applied to help heal defects in reconstructive plastic surgery or to aid in augmentation of deficient or aging tissues in cosmetic plastic surgery is a technologic development of Read More…

Product Reviews: The Vampire Facelift

One new interesting, but unusually named, cosmetic procedure is that of the “Vampire Facelift.” In truth, it is not really a facelift nor is it used by vampires or will make you look like one. The Vampire Facelift is far less scary and has much more science to it than most science fiction tales. 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…