Fat grafting in facial rejuvenation

Timothy J Marten; Dino Elyassnia

doi:10.1016/j.cps.2014.12.003

Fat grafting in facial rejuvenation

Clin Plast Surg. 2015 Apr;42(2):219-52. doi: 10.1016/j.cps.2014.12.003.

Authors

Timothy J Marten¹, Dino Elyassnia²

Affiliations

¹ Marten Clinic of Plastic Surgery, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA. Electronic address: info@martenclinic.com.
² Marten Clinic of Plastic Surgery, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA.

PMID: 25827566
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2014.12.003

Abstract

Patients with significant facial atrophy and age-related loss of facial fat generally achieve suboptimal improvement from both surface treatments of facial skin and surgical lifts. Restoring lost facial volume by fat grafting is a powerful technique that is now acknowledged by most plastic surgeons and other physicians engaged in treating the aging face as one of the most important advances in aesthetic surgery. Properly performed, the addition of fat to areas of the face that have atrophied because of age or disease can produce a significant and sustained improvement in appearance that is unobtainable by other means.

Keywords: Autologous fat grafting; Facelift; Facial atrophy; Fat grafting complications; Fat injections; Fat transfer; Microfat grafting; Stem cell facelift.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adipose Tissue / transplantation*
Humans
Injections, Subcutaneous
Rhytidoplasty / methods*
Tissue and Organ Harvesting / methods*
Transplantation, Autologous