Making Your Fat Work for You
A recent plastic surgery trend, known as fat grafting, is to use a person’s own fat to augment different areas of their body. Although fat grafting has recently gained popularity, it is not a new method. Published reports on fat grafting date back to the 1960's, and textbooks were dedicated to the topic in the 1980's. Over the next 20 years, fat grafting gained increasing popularity with plastic surgeons through development of techniques such as the Brazilian butt lift. This type of butt lift involves strategically injecting large volumes of fat into the gluteal region to create a larger and rounder bottom. These days, fat grafting has become common place in most plastic surgery practices and has spread to other specialties such as orthopedic surgery. In this post, I'll go over how the fat is prepared. Fat from liposuction is captured in the glass bottle so it may be retained and processed for grafting The fat is first obtained through liposuction. I previously ...
