Body contouring with fat grafting is a plastic surgery that involves liposuction in different body areas to harvest fat. The harvested fat is purified and used as a fat graft injection to enhance other body areas. These areas include your face, buttocks, breasts, or hands.
Body contouring with aft grafting a sophisticated plastic surgery that relies on the fact that transferred fat needs blood supply and therefore it’s survives in its new location. About 60% of fat survives, so the overcorrection is done to account for the fat that will not survive.
The fat is the most biocompatible dermal filler and greatly reduces the risk of allergies.
Apart from making your body areas more voluminous and enhanced, transferred fat has healing properties. It can treat visible scars or different wounds.
The transferred fat replaces lost volume, increases existing volume, enhances body contours and improves the proportion of the silhouette.
There is only one type of body contouring with fat grafting which includes three steps:
Usual body areas that are enhanced with body contouring with fat transfer are:
You are a good candidate for body contouring with fat grafting if you have enough fat deposits in body areas like the abdomen, hips, or thighs. These areas can be donor sites.
You can have this surgery if you are unhappy with the appearance of different areas in terms of lack of volume. You are also good candidate for this procedure if you wish to improve the appearance of scars.
You should be in good health and keep healthy lifestyle habits. Also, you should be close to your ideal weight, because too much weight fluctuation after the surgery can compromise the final results.
Body contouring with fat grafting can significantly enhance body areas that lack volume or symmetry. Fat grafting can plump up and rejuvenate smaller body areas like lips or hands.
Fat has healing properties and when transferred into areas with scars, it can significantly reduce them.
It depends on the extent of your case.
Local anesthesia is most commonly used.
Other types include:
Analgosedation which is a combination of IV sedation and local anesthesia.
General anesthesia which is used in specific cases and indications.
Even though body contouring with fat grafting is minimally invasive, it carries certain risks, including:
The results of body contouring with fat grafting are long-lasting. The fat that survived after being transferred should remain in its position forever.
The price of body contouring with fat grafting depends on the complexity and the length of the surgery.
Before the surgery, you need to have a thorough consultation with Dr. Dragana Spica.
Dr. Spica may require blood tests to determine if you are fit for the surgery.
Also, she will advise you to stop smoking and taking certain vitamins and supplements.
It’s important to arrange for someone to drive you home after the surgery.
On the day of your body contouring with fat grafting, you are prepped for the surgery and given anesthesia.
Dr. Dragana Spica performs liposuction through small incisions and harvests the fat. After the fat has been prepared, she injects it in tiny droplets into the targeted body area that needs enhancement. She closes the liposuction incisions with sutures.
When you feel comfortable, you are discharged from the surgical sites and given all the instructions for the recovery period.
Body contouring with fat grafting isn’t painful during procedure. After the surgery you may experience mild to moderate discomfort.
The length of recovery period depends on the treated area. It may lasts longer to recover from buttocks augmentation than from facial areas augmentation.
During recovery you should:
Generally, you can return to your normal daily activities after 6 weeks.
You should pay attention to the presence of bruising and swelling, which should subside after several weeks.
Also, you need to keep the surgical site clean to prevent infection.
It’s important to have regular follow-up appointments with Dr. Dragana Spica.
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