Facial Fat Grafting: Why, Where, How, and How Much

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Timothy Marten, Dino Elyassnia

Abstract

Although the importance of volume loss in the aging face is now well recognized and fat grafting has increasingly become an integral part of contemporary facelift procedures, general acceptance of the fat grafting technique is a relatively recent occurrence and many surgeons reluctance to adopt the technique can be traced back in part to questions they have as to how loss of volume contributes to how the face ages, how to specifically recognize those changes, and questions they have about how to perform the fat grafting procedure to correct them. In this article we attempt to answer the questions "why perform facial fat grafting during facelift procedures?", "where should fat be placed in the face?", "how should fat be injected?", and "how much should be injected in each area?". This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .

Citations

Jun 21, 2019·Aesthetic Plastic Surgery·Caio Pundek Garcia, Ana Zulmira Diniz Badin
Jan 17, 2020·Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open·Malke AsaadBasel Sharaf
Sep 19, 2020·Aesthetic Plastic Surgery·Fahd Benslimane, Henrique Pessoa Ladvocat Cintra
Feb 4, 2021·Facial Plastic Surgery : FPS·Capi C Wever
Apr 29, 2021·Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America·Timothy Marten, Dino Elyassnia
Jan 27, 2021·The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery·Safvet Ors
Jun 15, 2021·Seminars in Plastic Surgery·Rami P DibbsJeffrey D Friedman
Sep 23, 2021·Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery·Saïd C AzouryIvona Percec
Nov 11, 2021·Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery·Chin-Ho WongBryan Mendelson

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