Fat injections

Some patients may want to consider fat injections, which uses fat harvested from the patient’s own body which can then be re-injected to enhance facial fullness, fill creases or build up shallow contours.

Fat injection in face requires a more extensive procedure than “off-the-shelf” soft tissue fillers.

A “donor area” must be determined (such as the abdomen or buttocks) and liposuction is used to extract the fat. The suctioned fat can then be transferred to the face, as a graft.

The grafted fat then has to redevelop a blood supply in order to survive.

In the face, most of the transferred fat usually survives, but the results can be a bit less predictable. You can view facial fat injections before and after photos at our website.

The use of fat transfer involves additional discomfort in the donor area. This is a minor surgical procedure that can be performed in the surgeon’s treatment room or in our accredited operating room.