What is Fat Transplant
By: Paul FryattTotal Views: 232, Word Count: 565,
What is fat transplant can be answered as, the removal of fat from one part of the body, such as during liposuction and injected into other areas of the body such as the buttocks, breasts, face, cheeks, lips, calves, pectorals, etc. Traditionally, fat transplants have been used for 30 years, but the number of transplants has soared in the last five years. This procedure is absolutely safe and there are nearly no side effects.
As techniques are being refined, fat transplantation is improving. Of late, the problem with fat transplants was, the results were often erratic as there was no way to foresee as to how much of the newly placed fat would be retained. As per some studies conducted, the fat was chemically labeled, then injected and checked after several years. It was found that retention differed widely from one patient to the next. Different surgeons had varying results as their techniques of fat harvesting and fat injection were different. Some patients would keep hold of 100% fat while others would retain none.
Body Areas Benefited Most by Fat Transplantation
Cheeks and lips are the most popular places for fat transplantation. The face loses its richness as you age and the fat under the skin known as the foundation of the face shrinks which results in a hollowed looking face and wrinkles around the mouth. Cautious ‘reverse sculpting’ could add up to 9 ounces of fat to produce the higher cheekbones, fuller foreheads and heavier lips as you had in your youth. This also smoothes facial contours.
What is fat transplant can be further explained as, injection of fat into some of the most demanded areas of the body, so as to make them look fuller. Post nursing women are the good candidates for fat transplantation into the breasts, who’s lost some lactation related enlargement of the breast and whose skin is slightly sagging but do not desire for breast reduction or breast implants. A fat transplant could refill the breast and might restore or improve its original shape. However, fat transplants would not create the same size breast obtained with artificial implants.
Performing Fat Transplantation
The patient is first prepared for tumescent liposuction. However, instead of using a standard liposuction cannula, a particular new cannula handles the flow of fat more smoothly. This cannula is attached to a syringe which is used to produce a milder vacuum than used with normal liposuction. The fat is then removed from an area of extreme fat and handled with immense care to keep the cells unbroken and not to disturb the cell structure.
Uninjured cells are better retained by the body at their sites in implantation. The fat cells are extracted along with the quantities of the tumescent solution and the liquid is removed after centrifugation separates the fat cells from the solution. This harvested fat is then injected into the receiver area with tiny, specially designed blunt cannula. This is a slow process which takes several hours.
What is fat transplant and its recovery is explained further. Fat implantation is generally done in combination with other procedures such as laser peeling and liposuction and the recovery is alike that for liposuction. Elastic compression dressings and foam pads are fitted over the injected areas. Recovery would be similar to skin peel on those which have been both fat enhanced and laser treated.
About the Author
Paul Fryatt, M.D. has been in this profession from last 24 years. He made great achievements in his profession. He made an initiative to open a Family Allergy Clinic in 1985 to help his patients who were not reacting to traditional allergy treatment programs. Moreover he has explored the treatment to overcome allergy symptoms to reclaim quality of life through his convenient, no-shots therapy
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