Fat Transfer
The Stratford Dermatherapy Clinic
Fat Transfer
“The New Filler”
Where Beauty Meets Medicine
As we age our faces tend to lose volume. Our cheeks may flatten, our chins grow sharper and we begin to look older. Comparing a photo of oneself taken fifteen or twenty years ago with one’s face today provides a good illustration of this phenomenon.
Fat transfer has been put forward as a means of volume augmentation for many years, but one of the problems encountered had been variability of the results. However, Dr Hugo Kitchen has become the first doctor in the private sector in the UK to employ Body-Jet Harvesting system from Germany, and using techniques developed from recent work by surgeons like Dr. Sydney Coleman of New York has led to a much more consistently successful technique that can provide a gradual, controlled restoration of the youthful shapes of the face and other parts of the body.
With this new technique, the fat cells from the grafting process have a lasting presence. Indeed, this technique, which is currently being used for both aesthetic and reconstructive surgery, is considered to have unrivalled potential for restoring a fuller, more youthful look. The other great advantage of course is that the material transferred derives from your own body, and is therefore not rejected nor bio-degraded like all the other fillers used today.
What to expect from fat transfer procedure
Fat transfer is done under local anaesthesia depending on the extent of the area to be treated. Done under local anaesthesia, both the area from which the fat cells are taken and the area into which they are injected will be anaesthetized.
During the procedure the 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 similar to liposuction but so much gentler, using a fine Water-Jet inside your fat.
The fat cells are then separated intact.
The live fat cells are then injected into the areas to be treated using a very fine cannula.
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 permanent and stable.
Currently this technique is most commonly used on the face and other areas including the back of the hands which has stunning effects of rejuvenation from sun-damage. It is also used in the buttocks, and for some years fat transfer has been used to enhance the breasts. This looks and feels so natural and can create a beautifully natural cleavage and shape as well as feel to the smaller or drooping breast... AND IT’S PERMANENT!
For more details contact The Stratford Dermatherapy Clinic on 01789 414289 or info@skincareclinic.co.uk
And view our treatment services at www.skincareclinic.co.uk
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