A complete discussion of your goals and concerns combined with a thorough history and examination by an experienced and board-certified plastic surgeon is the most essential factor in determining the best treatment option and approach to provide a safe, balanced, and natural appearing aesthetic result. The unique improvements in body contour with liposuction for fat harvest combined with the natural and rejuvenative benefits of PRP augmented fat grafting and volume restoration can correct many of the more frustrating signs of aging and restore a youthful appearance that can improve self-confidence and quality of life for appropriately selected patients. The most important consideration is finding a qualified, experienced and board-certified plastic surgeon that you can trust in order to determine your best options.
Fat Transfer
Our fat transfer in Toledo, Ohio also helps skin and tissue damaged from scarring, injury, or radiation to rejuvenate, repair, or restore the skin and tissue to a healthier state or improve contour.
Fat grafting, also known as fat transfer or fat injections, is a minimally invasive aesthetic surgical procedure to harvest living fat cells from an area of excess, process and purify the fat cell grafts, and then inject them into areas deficient in volume due to aging, congenital factors, or trauma.
THE PROCEDURE
What It Is
Our fat transfer in Toledo treats common problems such as loss of tissue volume, laxity, loss of support, thinning or atrophy, and loss of elasticity of the skin. This volume loss is commonly seen with aging or in the face, buttocks, and breasts and is a frustrating concern for many patients.
In addition, scientific research has revealed that subcutaneous fat contains other special precursor cells or stem cells and powerful growth factors at have the unique ability to replace aged or damaged cells and help rejuvenate youthful tissue function and skin health.
Combining the natural volume replacement benefits of a patient’s own living fat cell grafts along with the regenerative potential of natural growth factors such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and other signaling peptides is a growing and exciting new option in aesthetic medicine.
What It Treats
- Common signs of aging such as deflated and volume deficient areas of the face particularly the cheeks, lips, under eye tissue, temporal hollows, and jawline
- Thinning of facial tissues resulting from sun exposure or aging
- Deficient volume and body contour disproportion commonly experienced in the buttocks and breasts with aging, weight loss or congenitally
- Tissue damage from radiation, such as in breast cancer treatment, or after trauma or previous surgery
- Facial acne scarring
Benefits
- Long-Lasting Volume
Can provide natural balance and long-lasting volume which contributes to a more youthful appearance and proportion in the face, buttocks, and breasts. - Wide-Ranging Solutions
Our fat transfer in Toledo can help rejuvenate thinning, loss of elasticity and atrophy in the skin and underlying issues caused by sun exposure and aging. - Easily Paired
When combined with appropriate aesthetic procedures such as face-lifts, skin peels, lasers and liposuction, fat transfer contributes to a more balanced and natural appearing overall treatment result and more youthful skin quality. - No Scars
Fat transfers can be placed by injection and small blunt cannulas in any treatment area without incisions or related scars. - Improvement in Acne Scars
Fat transfers be combined with needle scar release (‘subcision’) to improve the appearance of acne and other surface scars.
OVERVIEW
Treatment Time
1.5 – 2.5 hours
Recovery Time
2.5 – 3.5 weeks
Anesthetic Type
General
How Fat Transfer Works
Step 1.
As with all aesthetic surgical procedures with Dr. Frank Barone at EVOLV Plastic Surgery, involves complete evaluation, examination, discussion of goals, and creation of a personalized and comprehensive rejuvenation plan. Pre-operative skin care and education are also essential for preparation and safe, optimal results. We review itemized costs and recovery time planning as well as related planned procedures with the fat grafting.
Step 2.
Depending on related procedures and the extent of fat harvest, contouring, and placement, fat grafting, and processing are either done in the office procedure facility or in an accredited outpatient surgery center under either a light general or intravenous anesthetic administered by a board-certified anesthesiologist and experienced licensed nursing staff.
Step 3.
After local, intravenous, or general anesthesia, the fatty tissue excess in selected donor sites is infiltrated with an anesthetic solution to reduce bleeding and discomfort through a small half-inch incision hidden in a skin crease. Fat is harvested with a special ultrasonic or syringe technique to preserve fat cell viability.
Contouring of the donor site is also done in most cases. The harvested fat cells are then processed and purified and then mixed with growth factors such as PRP (platelet-rich plasma) to improve the viability and take. The fat cell/growth factor mixture is then carefully injected into specific areas of treatment. After completion of related ancillary procedures, incisions are closed, and compression dressings are applied.
Step 4.
The amount of swelling and bruising as well as recovery will depend on the extent of the liposuction and fat harvest, as well as the degree of fat injection placement, and other related combination aesthetic procedures.
The EVOLV Plastic Surgery pre and post-operative therapeutic system involves clinically proven supplements, lymphatic drainage and massage, LED biophotomodulation, a customized medical skin care plan, and other services and products that are proven to reduce swelling, bruising, and downtime, and speed recovery.
Because a portion of the grafted fat cells will not survive, and the tissue rejuvenation benefits are gradual, it will take time to allow swelling to resolve and to fully appreciate your result.
Frequently Asked Questions
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