What is autologous fat grafting for facial rejuvenation? How much does eye socket filler cost?.
Filling the face with autologous fat is a method of taking fat from areas with excess fat such as abdomen, waist, hip, back, thigh and transplanting it into areas with defects and lack of volume of the face to create a youthful appearance such as: filling the front cheeks, side cheeks, baby face, forehead, earlobes, hands. Filling in the defects of the face such as temple, eyelids and upper eyelids. Filling in natural wrinkles of the face such as nasolabial folds, corner of mouth folds.
What are the advantages of facial fat grafting? Is it better than filler?.
- Fill your face with your own fat is the beauty trend of women today because it creates natural contours and rejuvenates the skin, does not cause allergies, is safe, and makes the facial skin smoother and whiter. If fat is transplanted in the face, it will last forever.
- Filler only lasts one or two years, if filler injection with large quantities which is very expensive compared to your fat graft and may lead to allergies.
Before and after images of cheek fat injection and temple fat injection.
Who should perform face filler surgery?.
- Patients who have excess fat of the abdomen, hip, waist, back, thigh and need to increase volume, compensate for the defective areas of the face, desire to rejuvenate facial skin, beautiful and balanced face, all can perform this method.
Who should not perform this method?.
- Patients with no excess fat.
The technical procedure of facial fat grafting.
1. Anesthetic method.
- General anesthesia or local anesthesia ( should only be performed at hospitals with modern facilities).
2. How to perform filling.
- Before surgery, the doctor will draw to determine the areas of excess fat that need to be removed and the areas of the face that need fat grafting.
- The doctor will make a small 2 - 4 mm incision on the skin in an area where the scar can be hidden to remove excess fat from the abdomen.
- The collected fat will be centrifuged to obtain the best, purest fat with the highest survival rate, for optimal transplant results.
3. How to perform facial fat injection with your own fat.
- The surgeon uses a specialized fat injection gun to ensure the fat is evenly distributed and layered, maximizing fat cell survival. Previously, when only using a syringe, the fat cells often wouldn’t survive. This specialized fat injection gun has transformed fat grafting methods, allowing the transferred fat to remain permanently.
Postoperative care.
- The fat extraction area will be bandaged for a week, wear a corset for two weeks to reduce swelling, seroma and slimming the abdomen, the face areas also tightens.
- The face area will be covered with adhesive tape to fix the fat injected area for 2 days.
- Patients can walk immediately after surgery.
- Swelling will gradually decrease after a week, the effect will be clearly seen immediately after implantation.
- Patients should not massage during the first 6 weeks because it will reduce the survival rate of fat tissue after transplantation.
- During the first 3 months, patients should eat normally and not abstain too much so that the transplanted fat does not disappear. After 3 months, if the transplanted fat survives, it will live forever.
* The result also depends on the natural disposition of each person.
