Facial Fat Grafting
Revitalize your appearance with facial fat grafting. Enjoy subtle, yet significant improvements that celebrate your natural beauty without the need for artificial substances.
Revitalize your appearance with facial fat grafting. Enjoy subtle, yet significant improvements that celebrate your natural beauty without the need for artificial substances.
As time passes, many of us notice a subtle yet impactful loss of facial volume, leading to hollowed areas and a tired appearance. Facial Fat Grafting, also known as facial fat transfer or Coleman fat grafting, offers a beautifully natural solution to restore youthful contours and vibrancy.
At Face N Body in Upland, CA, we specialize in this innovative facial plastic surgery procedure for patients across the Inland Empire. Our trusted plastic surgeons, Dr. Park and Dr. Cheah, possess unparalleled expertise in this delicate art, ensuring your results are subtly refreshed, naturally harmonious, and enduring. Experience concierge-level care and the confidence that comes from enhancing your beauty with your body's own resources.
Uses your body's natural fat; no foreign materials.
Creates harmonious soft tissue volume where needed.
Contours a donor area while rejuvenating the face.
Can enhance skin texture and elasticity.
Integrated fat cells offer durable, long-term results.
Facial Fat Grafting, also called facial fat transfer or autologous fat grafting, is an advanced cosmetic surgery procedure designed to restore youthful fullness and subtly enhance facial contours using your body's living fat cells. As we age, volume loss in the face is a primary contributor to an aged appearance, leading to hollowing, sunken areas, and pronounced lines.
A more natural alternative to synthetic fillers, fat grafting harvests healthy fat from one area of your body (a "donor site" like the abdomen or thighs) through a gentle liposuction technique. This fat is then purified and meticulously reinjected into specific areas of the face that require volume and contouring. The overall purpose is to achieve a remarkably natural, soft, and long-lasting rejuvenation by replenishing lost volume and subtly stimulating skin quality, resulting in a refreshed and harmonious facial balance.
Your journey to natural facial volume at Face N Body Aesthetics & Plastic Surgery involves a precise, three-step, minimally invasive procedure, performed within our AAAHC-accredited on-site surgery center in Upland, CA, under the expert guidance of Dr. Park or Dr. Cheah.
The procedure begins with the gentle liposuction of a small amount of excess fat from a donor area on your body (commonly the abdomen, outer or inner thighs, or flanks). This step is performed with local anesthesia, and often a mild sedative, ensuring your comfort.
The harvested fat is then meticulously processed and purified to separate healthy, viable fat cells from fluids and other debris. This crucial step ensures only the purest fat is used for grafting.
Finally, the purified fat is carefully and strategically injected into the targeted areas of your face using fine cannulas. Our surgeons' artistic eye ensures the fat is distributed evenly to create smooth, natural contours that enhance your unique facial structure.
The entire fat transfer procedure can vary in length depending on the volume of fat being transferred and the number of areas being treated, but our focus remains on precision, safety, and delivering exquisite, natural-looking results. Our kind staff will monitor you, and a board-certified anesthesiologist will be present throughout.
Facial fat grafting is highly effective at correcting signs of aging and congenital volume deficits that contribute to a tired or aged appearance. It excels at rejuvenating areas that have lost their youthful plumpness, including:
Beyond volume, the stem cells present in the transferred fat can also contribute to an overall improvement in skin quality and radiance.
Facial Fat Grafting can artfully enhance volume and contour across various regions of the face, including the cheeks, temples, under-eyes, lips, chin, and jawline.
Choosing facial fat grafting at Face N Body offers a spectrum of unique and compelling benefits that highlight its superiority for natural, lasting facial rejuvenation.
One of the most significant benefits is that fat grafting utilizes your body's own living tissue (autologous fat). This eliminates any risk of allergic reaction, rejection, or incompatibility issues often associated with synthetic fillers. It’s the ultimate biocompatible solution, resulting in a look and feel that is inherently natural and authentic.
Once transferred, fat cells establish a new blood supply and integrate into their new location, becoming a living, permanent part of your facial structure. This means the volume restoration is incredibly long-lasting, often outperforming temporary fillers and providing sustained, beautiful results that age naturally with you. The "less is more" philosophy of Dr. Cheah ensures this lasting effect maintains perfect harmony.
The procedure offers a unique two-in-one benefit: not only do you gain youthful volume in your face, but you also achieve subtle contouring or reduction in the area from which the fat was harvested (e.g., a flatter abdomen or slimmer thighs). It's a harmonious transformation that benefits multiple areas of your body.
Beyond simply adding volume, the transferred fat contains regenerative cells that can improve the quality of the overlying skin. Patients often report enhanced skin texture, elasticity, and a more radiant complexion in the treated areas over time, contributing to an overall refreshed and revitalized appearance.
Facial fat grafting is an excellent option for individuals experiencing facial volume loss due to aging, weight loss, or genetics, who desire a natural and long-lasting solution. Ideal candidates are in good general health, are non-smokers, and have sufficient harvestable fat in other areas of their body (even a small amount is often enough). They should also have realistic expectations about the outcomes, understanding that some fat reabsorption can occur.
During your detailed, compassionate consultation with Dr. Park or Dr. Cheah in Upland, CA, your facial structure, skin quality, and potential donor sites will be thoroughly assessed to determine if facial fat grafting is the most harmonious path to achieving your aesthetic goals.
Recovery from facial fat grafting involves attention to both the donor site and the treated facial areas. Our caring team at Face N Body will provide comprehensive post-operative instructions to ensure a smooth and comfortable healing process.
Our team will guide you through each stage, providing support and monitoring your progress at our Upland office.
You will notice an immediate augmentation of volume in the treated facial areas directly after your fat grafting procedure. However, a significant portion of this initial fullness is due to swelling. As the swelling gradually subsides over the first few weeks, the true contours will begin to emerge. The final, stable results, reflecting the injected fat that has successfully integrated and established a new blood supply, are typically visible around 3 to 6 months after your surgery.
One of the most compelling aspects of facial fat grafting is the longevity of its results. Once the transferred fat cells "take" and establish a blood supply in their new location (typically about 30-50% of the grafted fat survives), they become a permanent part of your facial anatomy. This means the volume enhancement from the integrated fat is long-lasting and potentially permanent. While the natural aging process will continue, the added volume from the grafted fat remains, ensuring a sustained, youthful fullness for many years, often making it a one-time procedure for a lasting difference.
For a procedure as nuanced and artistic as facial fat grafting, the expertise of your cosmetic surgeon is paramount. At Face N Body Aesthetics & Plastic Surgery, you benefit from the combined mastery of our Stanford and UTSW-trained plastic surgeons, Dr. Park and Dr. Cheah, who are renowned for their meticulous technique and unwavering commitment to natural-looking, harmonious results. Our philosophy of "less is more," championed by Dr. Cheah, ensures that volume is restored with exquisite precision, enhancing your features without an overdone appearance.
Serving the Inland Empire for over 20 years, we offer a truly concierge-level patient experience. Our facial plastic surgeons perform fat transfer procedures in our AAAHC-accredited on-site surgery center, ensuring your comfort and safety at every step. From the careful harvesting of your own tissue to the artful re-injection, our team, supported by a board-certified anesthesiologist with over 30 years of experience, provides personalized care that respects your unique anatomy. Choose Face N Body for a facial fat grafting experience that delivers lasting radiance and reflects your inner vitality.
Yes, facial fat grafting uses your body's own living tissue, eliminating the risk of allergic reactions and often resulting in a softer, more natural feel and appearance compared to synthetic fillers.
The amount of fat needed varies significantly depending on the areas being treated and the degree of volume loss, but it's usually a small volume, often harvested from areas such as the abdomen or flanks.
No, not all transferred fat cells survive. Typically, about 50-70% of the grafted fat successfully integrates and establishes a new blood supply, becoming permanent. This is why some surgeons may overfill slightly or recommend touch-up sessions.
Yes, the transferred fat contains stem cells and other regenerative components that can enhance blood supply and stimulate collagen production, leading to improvements in the overlying skin's texture, tone, and elasticity.
The liposuction used for fat harvesting involves very small incisions, typically only a few millimeters in length. These incisions are usually discreetly placed and heal into tiny, almost imperceptible marks.
The duration varies depending on the amount of fat to be harvested and the number of facial areas to be treated, but the procedure typically ranges from 1 to 3 hours.
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