Facial fat grafting is a cosmetic procedure in which fat is injected into the face to reduce the signs of aging by using your own body fat. Cheeks start sinking and become hollow as the aging process begins in the body. You will begin to observe creases and wrinkles around your eyes and mouth as well as the jowls at your jawline. So, fat grafting is an effective procedure to rejuvenate facial features and smoothen wrinkles and fine lines.
In this process, your own body fat is harvested from a body region rich in fat through suction and then injected into your face strategically with great precision. Using fat as a filler is an excellent approach and mitigates the risk of an allergic reaction.
For facial fat grafting in Mumbai, Dr. Siddharth Prakash is a renowned Cosmetic and Plastic Surgeon practicing at Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai. He is an alumnus of KEM Hospital, Mumbai, and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
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What can you expect during the procedure?
During the treatment, your doctor will give you local anesthesia at the recipient and donor sites. That means you can go home yourself by driving. In case of a larger fat volume, your surgeon might give you general anesthesia or sedate you with local anesthesia to be comfortable throughout the procedure.
In the case of general anesthesia or sedation, you will need someone to pick you up from your doctor’s clinic.
Your surgeon will sanitize the treatment sites and give you anesthesia injections. After the anesthesia starts working, he will harvest the fat through a cannula or injection. This fat is then purified and injected into your face via tiny needles.
The amount of fat injected is half of the fat extracted. Some of the fat is lost in the purification process, and some are lost in the metabolization process by the body.
Why is facial fat grafting the best procedure for you?
Results are very natural
One of the main reasons facial fat grafting is very popular is because the results are very natural. However, you must choose a highly qualified surgeon.
This process gives very natural results because you are not using any artificial fillers, you get your own body fat injected into your facial skin. So, there won’t be any chances of infection or rejection by the body.
Contouring of other body parts
Aging does not only appear on your face; it also shows on other parts of the body. As women and men age, hormonal production reduces, and this imbalance results in less metabolism. Most people don’t adjust their eating habits and lifestyle according to their body changes and start gaining weight and excessive fat in certain parts of the body.
So fat grafting in the face helps you to remove excess fat from your fatty areas and gives you a perfect face and a perfectly contoured body. The only condition is that you should have excess fat in the body for the process.
No Recovery Time
Another best time for analogous facial fat grafting is that you can resume your daily activities right after the treatment even if you had fat grafting of the cheeks. Other surgical facial implants will require you to wait for two to three weeks.
However, in fat grafting, you will need to avoid aerobic exercises for two weeks so that fat cells can properly develop in the bloodstream. Also, avoid anything touching your face for a few days.
