FACE FAT INJECTION

With Twiggy, the most famous model of the 1960s, the fashion for slimming began, shock diets, weight loss pills, and swallowing parasite eggs came into our lives. However, just before this fashion, it was the fishy Marilyn Monroe who met the definition of beauty. Today, it has become a trend to have fishy, feminine body features, and to have a plump hourglass-shaped silhouette together with famous magazine figures. As a child of the nineties, I grew up embracing a size zero. I convinced myself that oil is not a good thing. Until she started plastic surgery assistantship.

Adipose tissue is the most important filling material that the body will not reject for this reason, in addition to having vital features for the survival of the organism. Another feature that is as beautiful as this is the presence of stem cells and substances that stimulate cell regeneration in the connective tissue around the fat cells. Although ‘stem cell’ here is a very abusive term that is very suitable for marketing and that excites us all, it is never an easy task to claim that you do stem cell therapy. Stem cell therapy cannot be performed with only fat injection.

Aside from this theoretical knowledge, the clinical benefits of adipose tissue are not to be underestimated. Adipose tissue is not only a beautiful filler, but also a material that visibly improves skin quality even after the first application. Fat injection has been one of the favorite applications of us plastic surgeons, as it is easy to access, easy to apply, and the body does not develop an immune response and reject it. At the beginning of the subject, let me state that fat injection is a surgical procedure. It should not be considered as a minimally invasive procedure, it should be performed by skilled hands, namely plastic surgeons.

There are many fat pads on our face. Most of these fat pads lose their volume with age. With this loss of volume, sagging of soft tissues also occurs. In addition, the quality of the facial skin deteriorates with the effect of time. The result of all this is that we are perceived as old and tired. For women, it is necessary to add to this to look more masculine.

What is Facial Fat Injection?

Fat injection to the face is the injection of fat taken from parts of the body, such as the belly area, love handles, inner legs, hips, with special techniques after treatment, into areas that have lost their volume on the face or directly into the skin. Thus, it is aimed to reach the volume and texture quality that the face has lost. In addition, a little upward positioning of the drooping tissues is ensured. Lips can be shaped and volumized by injecting oil into the lips.

Since fat injection is the person’s own tissue, it does not create an immune response, but the injected fat must be fed by diffusion. Not all fat cells can survive and approximately 50-30% of them melt. For this reason, several sessions may be required. The greater the amount of oil injected, the greater the probability of loss. In addition, the survival of fat cells becomes difficult in conditions that impair blood supply at the tissue level, such as smoking. In addition, the effect of age on the survival of injected oils is very large. The chances of success decrease with age.

Since the amount of fat injected into the face will be small, no visible volume loss or deformity is expected in the donor area.

Who Is Suitable for a Facial Fat Injection?

Fat injection to the face can be applied to people who have lost subcutaneous soft tissue volume, who desire an increase in skin quality, and who have enough fat tissue to be used as a donor in their body. The patient must be healthy, over the age of 18, suitable for general anesthesia. In addition, smokers are not suitable candidates because smoking greatly reduces the chances of success.

How is Fat Injection to the Face Made?

Fat injection to the face is usually performed under general anesthesia / sedation. Local anesthesia may also be preferred. The infiltration solution, which is prepared according to the amount of fat planned to be taken, is usually injected around the navel with an incision of approximately 5 mm from a place that will not be visible in the navel. Sufficient time is waited, fat is collected with the help of cannulas and injectors. The collected fats are made suitable for injection and injected into the areas to be injected on the face with cannulas slightly thicker than the needle.

Is Fat Injection to the Face a Permanent Method?

Although fat injection is a permanent method, not all of the injected fat can survive in the recipient area and approximately half of it melts. Since the amount of survival varies greatly from person to person, an exact rate cannot be given. Depending on the need and the amount of surviving fat, several sessions may be required.