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This is a very exciting procedure, as it is not incredibly invasive, and returns a youthful look.
Fat Transfer Surgery in Denver |
Fat Transfer Cosmetic Plastic Surgery
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Fat is composed of living cells. Besides thinking of fat as the bane of existence when we find that we’ve got an excess of it around the middle or thighs or other areas, as plastic surgeons we consider it the source of youthful shapes and contours. As we age, these youthful contours disappear. Therefore, if we are considering youth-restoring surgeries, replacement of fat should be one of those procedures that we bear in mind. Dr. Grossman has been a proponent of this concept of fat transplanting for many years and for numerous areas of the face, body, and extremities. Repositioning fat from one location to another is a form of transplantation that requires the fat cells to obtain blood supply from the surrounding tissues. Therefore, those areas with the best blood supply (the face and hands) are likely to be the best as fat cell recipients with greater persistence of the transplanted fat.
Fat transplanting can be done as an integral part of a liposuction procedure or as an independent surgery. The fat is harvested carefully and by hand instead of with a suction machine, although some plastic surgeons feel that they can use fat that has been machine-harvested. |
Dr. Grossman believes that the current science indicates that the suction machine is too traumatic to the fat cells. He prefers, therefore to “harvest by hand”. The fat is then cleansed and prepared for transplanting. It is injected in tiny quantities at multiple levels in the area to be enhanced with fat. These areas may include the: face (temples, browline, eye sockets, cheeks, nasolabial folds, marionette lines, lips, jawline); breasts; buttocks (Brazilian Butt Lift, cellulite dents/hail damage); hands; feet, and perhaps any imaginable area.
Most of these can be done as an out-patient and, where a limited number of areas and volume of fat is involved, can be done under a local anesthetic. Larger volume fat transplanting, such as buttocks, are best done using a general anesthetic and may, on occasion, even require an overnight stay.
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