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From Scars to Smooth Skin: How Fat Grafting Can Help Rebuild Confidence?
Fat grafting, also known as liposuction, fat micro-touch or fat injection, is a surgical procedure in which the patient's own fat is transferred from one area of the body to another. The main purpose of this procedure is to improve or enhance areas where irregularities and depressions exist. The procedure is performed under general or local anesthesia and the technique consists of three main stages: lipoharvesting (extracting fat), lipoprocessing (processing the extracted fat), and lipoinjection (reinjecting purified fat into the area in need of improvement).
Applications
Autologous fat transplantation is a common treatment method and is widely used due to its good biocompatibility and sufficient fat supply. In recent years, this technique has gained increasing popularity in reconstructive and cosmetic plastic surgery, especially in soft tissue augmentation and volume replacement.
Breast Reconstruction
Breast reconstruction is a surgical procedure to recreate the natural shape and appearance of the breast, using autologous tissue, a prosthetic breast, or a combination of both. This procedure is primarily for women who have had a mastectomy or surgery to treat breast cancer. Breast reconstruction surgery involves harvesting fat from multiple areas of excess fat on the body and transplanting it into the breasts. Because the procedure uses the patient's own fat, structural fat grafting for breast reconstruction surgery is more natural and produces a smoother, more symmetrical result than breast prostheses.
Breast enlargement and asymmetry correction
Fat grafting breast enlargement offers a natural solution to restore breast shape and volume lost due to aging, pregnancy, breastfeeding or weight loss. Through the fat grafting procedure, breast asymmetry can be corrected to make the breasts more consistent in shape and size. Breast augmentation and asymmetry correction are considered safe procedures overall, but any large-scale weight fluctuations may affect the results of the procedure because the transplanted fat will act like fat from other parts of the body.
Buttocks enlargement
Fat grafting for buttock augmentation, also known as autologous fat grafting buttock augmentation, is a rapidly growing and increasingly popular aesthetic surgical procedure. This is a "double benefit" body contouring procedure because the areas where fat needs to be harvested are usually areas where there is excess fat, which is collected through liposuction. The fat is purified and prepared for transplantation in the buttocks area to increase the volume and improve the shape of the buttocks.
Facial reconstruction
The regenerative potential of fat injections and adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) play an important role in the good results of facial fat transplantation. While traditional facial reconstruction techniques often require surgical procedures involving the removal of muscle, skin and/or fat, modern techniques focus on adding volume to “hollow” facial areas using fat grafting. With a more complete understanding of the components of facial aging, fat grafting is recognized as an effective facial reconstruction technique, particularly for the eyelids.
Hand Reconstruction
Structural fat grafting can effectively treat aging or other appearance-related issues in the hands, such as prominent veins and tendons, loss of volume, thinning skin, arthritis, and atrophy of the hands. The procedure involves manually harvesting fat from one or more areas of the body through liposuction and placing it on the back of the patient’s hand, where it is sculpted into a smooth, even layer to achieve the desired appearance. To refine the results, additional fat transfers or dermal filler injections may also be performed.
Rhinoplasty
Autologous micro fat grafting is often used to correct a low nasal dorsum or a short nose. This technology can be of great help in correcting the nose shape.
Scars and burns
Scars and burns caused by a variety of reasons such as injuries, hives, acne, sun or radiation exposure, etc. can be corrected with structural fat grafting. This process collects fat from multiple areas of the body and then places it over any damaged tissue that needs repair. Structural fat grafting can improve the quality of aging and scarred skin, relieve pain and itching, repair radiation damage, treat chronic ulcers, and reduce the appearance of scars on the face and body, including depressions and deep grooves, thereby creating thicker, Softer and healthier.
Complications
To ensure the survival rate of fat grafts, fat graft material should not be over-processed and must be quickly reinjected. Possible complications include swelling, bruising, hematoma formation, numbness, or pain at the donor site, hypertrophic scarring, infection, contour irregularities, and damage to underlying structures due to the catheter.
Fat transplantation can not only restore smooth skin, but also rebuild people's self-confidence, allowing them to face every challenge in life again.
The diversity of fat transplantation techniques and the confidence-building they bring make us wonder whether we should pay more attention to the importance of this technology in our daily lives?
