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Fat Injection Beverly Hills
Facial Fat Rejuvenation, more commonly known as Fat Grafting or fat transfer, free fat transfer, autologous fat grafting/transfer/transplantation, liposculpture, lipostructure, volume restoration, micro-lipoinjection, fat injections,and even the "Space Lift?". For Simplicity, Fat Grafting will be used from here on out.
Facial Rejuvenation from Your Own Fat Stores
Finally a natural approach to restoring youthfulness to the face without removal of skin, stretching or unnatural looks resulting from facelifts. Dr Simoni usually uses this procedure with the face lift to further the facial rejuvenation.
Surgeons are routinely discovering that aesthetic improvement through facial fat replenishing is both dependable in most patients and convenient as there seems to be an almost endless supply of the adipose (fatty) tissue in the healthy, average-weighted patient. This procedure has become very popular within the last few years - especially that techniques have been improved, such as the micro-droplet or "threading" approach, thereby increasing the longevity of the fat graft.
Fat Grafting or Fat Transfer is the procedure to remove some excess fat cells from different part of the body with meticulous extraction methods and to re-implant where needed - to the lips, nasolabials (mouth to nose folds), undereyes, cheeks, chin, temples, etc. This is a very exciting procedure as it is not incredibly invasive - but does create a moderate amount of swelling - and returns a youthful look.
This procedure can also augment the cheeks, chin, jawline with your autologous tissue to further enhance your look. Or quite simply restore your undereye fat or to fill areas where fat has been lost due to aging, trauma, disease or sickness.
Are You A Candidate For Fat Grafting?
When we age our underlying collagen and elastic begin to break down and wrinkles emerge. This along with facial fat loss, brings about a haggard, hollow or even skeletal look. If you are not "overly" skinny, with a major metabolism and have a little extra fat somewhere on your body to spare you may be a good candidate but only if...
First and foremost, an individual must be in good health, not have any active diseases or pre-existing medical conditions and must have realistic expectations of the outcome of their surgery.
You must be mentally and emotionally stable to undergo an cosmetic procedure. This is an operation which requires patience and stability in dealing with the healing period.
What Areas Are Usually Treated?
Almost all areas of the face and body can be treated but there are the usual requested treatment sites:
- correction of "hollow" eyes, visible vessels resulting in dark circles, as well as visible tear troughs
- correction after aggressive removal of under-eye fat pads from lower blepharoplasty
- temple areas
- upper malar
- sub malar
- chin
- lips (it isn't a defining filler though)
- jawline
- forehead
- glabella (in between the brow)
- facial scars
- lower cheek after aggressive buccal fat extraction or natural loss
- area between upper lip and nose
- bridge of the nose and lateral fatty pads
- buttocks, hips
- sternum
- outer brow
- and anywhere else fat is needed or wanted
How This Procedure Is Performed
Dr Simoni recommends use of only local anesthesia for the entire procedure. If you are having liposuction for body contouring can have the fat "harvested" during your procedure.
This fat will be gently removed from the donor site (usually the buttocks, abdomen or the saddle bags - although the saddle bags can be quite fibrous) with a small cannula as so not to damage the membrane of the fat cell. The fat is then spun in a centrifuge to remove excess fluids and the damaged fat cells are "picked out" and only whole, undamaged fat cells would be used. The fat is then injected with the use of a separate smaller cannula either just under the wrinkle or deep within the muscle (in SOME areas) as their is a higher vascularity within the muscle increasing the longevity of the fat graft.
Your face may feel tight for couple of days. Your donor site may be be sore as well.
The Road To Recovery
You shouldn't wear cosmetics until at least the day after. You may be swollen and pink so it may be in your best interest to take off the rest of the day. If you were given any type of sedative you will be groggy and this can be a very good thing.
Most of the swelling may last anywhere from 24-72 hours; although the swelling should completely be gone in 2 - 4 weeks.
The effects can last almost 3 years (maybe more). Fat transfer if done correctly can be wonderful! You may require a few more treatments.
