Fat Grafting to the Face
in Charlotte, NC
Beauty Enhanced
Mecklenburg County Fat Grafting to the Face at Charlotte Plastic Surgery
Unveil a refreshed, youthful radiance with facial fat grafting at Charlotte Plastic Surgery in Mecklenburg County. Our skilled surgeons utilize a minimally invasive approach, using your body's natural fat to restore volume and contour specific facial areas. This transformative procedure addresses concerns such as thin lips, sagging skin, and deep folds, enhancing your natural beauty.
Smooth and Radiant
What is Facial Fat Grafting?
Facial fat transfer, also known as fat grafting or lipofilling, is a minimally invasive plastic surgery that utilizes your body fat from areas like the hips, thighs, abdomen, or neck to restore volume to specific facial areas. This technique can enhance cheeks and temples, plump lips, improve blepharoplasty results, and smooth nasolabial folds. It also addresses pitted acne scars.
Extracting excess fat via gentle liposuction, processing it, and injecting the purified fat into the treatment area achieves a plump, lifted, and smooth appearance. The microfat transfer method injects fat in tiny droplets, while nanofat, further processed and refined, rejuvenates thin, crepey skin without adding volume. Autologous fat transfer provides anti-aging benefits, with growth factors stimulating collagen production. Nanofat, rich in growth factors, is used for tissue regeneration, often complemented by platelet-rich plasma or platelet-rich fibrin to enhance regenerative effects and graft survival.
Revive and Renew
What are the benefits of Fat Grafting to the Face?
Lipofilling not only restores lost volume and smooths folds but also improves the appearance of pitted scars and rejuvenates crepey skin. It's the longest-lasting option to reverse volume loss and facial wrinkles. The surviving transferred fat is considered permanent. Harvesting unwanted fat via liposuction has added body contouring benefits. The growth factors in your fat stimulate new collagen production, ensuring ongoing facial rejuvenation.
Facial fat transfer complements other rejuvenation procedures like facelifts and blepharoplasty. Areas benefiting from fat injections include temples, forehead, glabella, upper eyelids, under-eyes, cheeks, nasolabial folds, marionette lines, lips, chin, and jawline.
Contours of Confidence
Your Fat Grafting to the Face Consultation
Our skilled surgeons tailor solutions to your unique needs, discussing facial concerns and aesthetic goals. Discover how this minimally invasive procedure enhances volume and restores a youthful appearance by using your body fat.
Let our board-certified experts guide you through the transformative possibilities of Facial Fat Grafting. Elevate your confidence and schedule a consultation today with Charlotte Plastic Surgery, where personalized care meets exceptional results.
Restore & Glow
Your Fat Grafting to the Face Procedure
A facial fat grafting procedure involves three stages, potentially lasting up to two hours, contingent on the transferred fat volume and specific details of the procedure:
Liposuction to Harvest Fat
You and your surgeon will select areas for fat harvesting through liposuction. Local anesthesia with oral sedation or general anesthesia (if deemed necessary) will be administered. A small incision is made in the donor area, and a cannula extracts fat gently. Gentle extraction is crucial to preserve cell viability.
Purifying and Preparing the Fat
Fat cells undergo centrifugation and filtration for purification. The purified fat is transferred to smaller cannulas.
Injecting the Fat
After numbing your face with local anesthesia, your surgeon inserts a tiny cannula into the treatment area. The cannula is passed multiple times to deposit small amounts of fatty tissue adjacent to living tissue with a good blood supply. Surgeons often over-correct to account for potential fat loss while being cautious not to overfill tissues, maintaining viability. The newly positioned fat cells must establish a new blood supply to survive.
Subtle, Elegant Volume
Fat Grafting to the Face Results
The final results of facial fat transfer become apparent around nine months post-procedure. In the initial three months, 40–60 percent of fat cells may perish. Surgeons often overfill to account for this, causing temporary overfilling or puffiness in the first few months. The volume reaches its lowest point by three to four months, and from four to nine months, surviving fat cells start plumping up.
Timeless Appeal
Fat Grafting to the Face Recovery and Aftercare
Patients typically need around one week to recover from facial fat grafting. While most activities can resume in three to five days, it may take a bit longer to appear "restaurant ready." During the initial week, expect swelling, bruising, inflammation, and soreness at the injection sites. Donor sites may be tender and swollen, usually manageable with over-the-counter pain medication. Swelling usually diminishes within two weeks, and keeping the face elevated can help reduce puffiness. Avoiding ice is recommended to preserve fat survival. Any bruising should fade within two weeks, and makeup can be used to cover it. Use a gentle facial cleanser and avoid scrubbing until inflammation resolves.
Facial Fat Grafting
Frequently Asked Questions
Determining if you're a good candidate for facial fat grafting involves several factors. Ideal candidates generally have concerns about volume loss, wrinkles, or specific facial features they wish to enhance. Good candidates are in overall good health, with no underlying medical conditions that may affect healing.
The final results are apparent around nine to ten months post-procedure and are permanent. However, fluctuations in weight can affect the size of transferred fat cells, altering facial proportions. Additionally, the treated area will naturally lose volume over time as part of aging.
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