Fat Transfer

• General
• The Consultation
• The Procedure
• Recovery
• Gallery

Fat transfer can be done under either general or local anaesthesic depending on the extent of the area to be treated. If it is done under local anaesthesic, both the area from which the fat cells are taken and the area into which they are injected will be anaesthetized.

• During the fat transfer procedure the cosmetic surgeon uses a thin needle called a cannula to harvest cells from a fat-rich area of you body like the abdomen or hips. This process is very much like liposuction.
• The fat cells are then centrifuged to separate intact cells from those that have been damaged.
• The live fat cells are then injected into the areas to be treated using a very fine cannula and multiple passes for every milliliter of graft.

The careful placement of the fat cells into tiny pockets of surrounding tissue with good blood supply creates the proper setting for the graft to "take". The process is similar to what happens when a skin graft is placed on a clean wound. In either case, once the graft has taken it becomes stable.

Currently this technique is most commonly used on the face. However it has been used successfully on other areas including the back of the hands and the buttocks, and more recently for the breasts.