Fat Transfer: Lose Unwanted Fat, Enhance Contours!

Most people would love to eliminate fat pockets in certain body parts — but why stop there? You can use that fat for good: With fat transfer, your surgeon can use the fat to enhance areas where you want extra volume.

Atlanta Plastic & Reconstructive Specialists’ board-certified plastic surgeons use advanced, proven fat transfer techniques to sculpt and contour the face and body in our state-of-the-art outpatient facility in Atlanta. This blog covers the facts about fat transfer.

How Fat Transfer Works

Fat transfer involves taking extra fat from one part of your body using gentle liposuction and then using that fat to enhance your contours elsewhere.

The extra fat can come from nearly anywhere, but the usual fat donation sites are the belly, thighs, and hips. The collected fat is carefully processed, purified, and injected into areas needing volume.

Areas For Fat Transfer

Facial fat transfer is a popular procedure at Atlanta Plastic & Reconstructive Specialists. With this surgery, you can enhance volume throughout the face (facial balancing) or in one or more specific areas, such as:

• Cheeks
• Lips
• Undereye Hollows
• Chin
• Jawline
• Acne Scars

Fat transfer isn’t just for the face, either. In a Brazilian butt lift (BBL,) your surgeon can use the harvested fat to plump up and shape your buttocks.

Fat Transfer Techniques

Our surgeons use specialized techniques to remove fat cells from the donor site, including an ultra-thin cannula with gentle suction, to avoid damaging the cells.

Similarly, they use unique approaches to place the fat in the face, ensuring it has an optimal blood supply to promote maximum fat survival.

The Benefits of Fat Transfer

Many patients consider the dual nature of fat transfer to be its biggest benefit. It eliminates the fat you don’t want and provides the volume you do want.

In addition, fat transfer offers natural-looking results with minimal scarring. There are no allergic reactions to foreign substances, as the procedure uses your fat.

The long-term results are another significant fat transfer advantage. Around 60% of the fat survives in its new location. Once it’s there and establishes a good blood supply, it’s just like any other fat in the area, so it can last for years. Maintaining your weight helps ensure the best long-term outcome.

Fat Transfer in Atlanta, GA

Atlanta Plastic & Reconstructive Specialists offers customized fat transfer procedures in our accredited outpatient surgical center in Atlanta. We’re ready to help you naturally enhance your face or body through fat transfer.

Our surgeons focus on achieving natural, beautiful results tailored to your goals. Call us at 404-255-2975 (Northside) or 404-343-0897 (Piedmont West) to schedule your fat transfer consultation.