{ Microfat Transplantation }

Microfat Transplantation

Who Is A Candidate?

If you have indentations in your skin, depressed scars or deep wrinkles. If there are grooves, folds or areas of soft tissue depression. This may also include the desire for an enhancement of your lips.

• Minimize skin wrinkles and depressions.
• Enlarge and enhance lips.
• Enlarge and augment cheeks and chins.

How Does It Work?

FAT TRANSFER: The patient’s own fat is collected with needles from a distant donor area and reinjected using the microfat techniques to the furrow, hallow or deficient area. The small filaments or toothpicks of fat swell up an area to correct the depression or provide augmentation. Unlike fat grafting techniques in the past, these small filaments are much more likely to pick up a blood supply, avoid resorption or melting away and, as such, provide long-term correction. Microfat and Artecoll® are often combined and layered for maximum benefit.

All injectables are outpatient procedures.

• Fat transfer may require sedation plus local anesthesia if larger amounts of fat are to be collected. Small amounts of fat can be collected and transferred under local anesthesia.
• Deep grooves of the frown lines, smile lines and marionette lines can be smoothed with microfat. Cheeks, chins and lips can be beautifully and naturally augmentsed with microfat transplantation.

Healing & Recovery

After Microfat transfer there is some bruising and swelling for 10-21 days, especially in the lips.

Additional Options

Additional procedures that could enhance the result of Fat Transfers are other facial cosmetic procedures such as Face Lift Laser Resurfacing, Eyelid Lift, Rhinoplasty, Endoscopic Brow, Blepharoplasty, ThreadLift™, or Botox®.

Cost and Insurance

This procedure is considered cosmetic and, therefore, is not covered by insurance. The patient is responsible for payment. Microfat ranges from $3,000.00 to $6,000.00, depending upon the number of areas injected.

The specific risks and the suitability of this procedure for a given individual can be determined only at the time of consultation. All procedures have some degree of risk. Minor complications that do not affect the outcome occur occasionally. Major complications are unusual.