FAMI

Facial wrinkles and creases are part of the ageing process. They begin to appear as the underlying collagen and elastic fibers break down and wear out. While this breakdown is part of the natural ageing process, it can also result from excessive squinting, frowning and smiling.

Fat transfer, also called autologous fat transplantation or micro-lipoinjection, plumps up facial features with patients own fat, and is a popular alternative to other facial treatments. Fat transfer to the face is a safe, natural, non-allergenic procedure, designed to recontour your face, and can provide definition to your cheeks and chin. It can also be used to correct facial deformities and to add volume to the face. Since fat transfer uses your own fat cells, you can never have an allergic reaction, because it's from your own body.

With

fat transfer,

it is possible to have fat liposucked from one part, and then transferred to any area of your body. Re injected fat lasts longer in larger areas of non-movement, so it is very successful for the correction of sunken cheeks, because this area does not move as often. Fat transfer can also correct atrophic ageing of the hands, and post-surgical and post-traumatic defects. But not every area of the body responds well to fat grafting. The breasts for instance, are not appropriate. Injecting fat into the breast makes it much more difficult to detect breast cancer with mammograms.

Fat transfer is performed in our office on an outpatient basis.

Using a small needle attached to a syringe, fat is removed from a donor site, where the fat is most tightly packed, such as the abdomen or the buttocks.

Harvesting the fat cells for re-injection is often performed in conjunction with other procedures, such as liposuction, tummy tuck or cosmetic breast surgery. Fat harvested can we stored in our "FAT BANK" for future use.