MICRO FAT GRAFTING

INTRODUCTION: Microfat grafting is a new technique that uses your own fat cells to rejuvenate the face and the area around the eye. Strategically placing fat into the face often produces dramatic rejuvenation. As we age our faces lose the fullness of youth and the ideal substance to restore our own fat.

This technique uses a very delicate harvesting and processing procedures in order to insure the viability of the transferred fat and long-term permanence. Fatty tissue is very fragile. Most traditional transfer techniques kill the fat in processing and produce very unsatisfactory results. Microfat grafting, however, allows the majority of the fat to survive the transplantation in most situations.

Once placed, the body accepts the transferred fat as part of your face--not something foreign like silicone or other inert implants. The intact fat parcels then anchor to the surrounding tissues and quickly reestablish a blood supply.

Harvesting of the fat is usually done from the abdomen or thighs using specially designed cannulas.
Regional nerve blocks are the most useful because adequate anesthesia can be provided without obscuring the defect to be treated. General anesthesia is used if the Microfat grafting is done together with other procedures (face lift, breast augmentation, liposuction etc.).

A common question is, "How long will the results of this procedure last?" The traditional fat grafting techniques had a very high resorption rates, this new technique insures more lasting results due to preservation of the viability of the fat cells transferred.

Juris Bunkis, MD, FACS
email:bunkis@ocps.com

Orange County Plastic Surgery
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