Autologous fat grafting for sagging face

There is no way to avoid aging for women, especially the face which is the most vulnerable part to aging, and the face plays a very important role in the image of the human body. The reason why the human face ages so quickly is that with age, the body's hormone levels are also changing, and the ligament and fascia tissues lose elasticity. In recent years, autologous fat filling has been a very popular plastic surgery technique, but will autologous fat filling cause sagging of the entire face?

With the development of medical technology, fat transplantation for anti-aging has also been sought after by many beauty lovers in recent years, because fat is taken from the body's excess fat and then transplanted to other needed parts of the face or chest, restoring the body to a full and youthful state after filling.

Of course, regarding autologous fat transplantation, many people are more concerned about the survival rate and the postoperative effect, especially whether the face will sag after facial fat transplantation. So today we will talk about whether the face will sag after autologous fat transplantation.

Why doesn't fat grafting cause facial sagging?

First of all, fat is not fluid, so there is no need to worry about sagging due to fluidity. The main reasons are as follows:

1. The main components of subcutaneous tissue are fat cells, fibrous septa and blood vessels.

2. Fat cells exist in the form of fat lobules within the fibrous septa.

3. Each fat cell is surrounded by capillaries.

Autologous fat transplantation is the process of extracting excess subcutaneous fat cells from certain parts of the human body, and then selecting complete granular fat cells after purification and transplanting them into the face through injection, in order to achieve the effect of improving facial contours and facial rejuvenation.

Therefore, for the face, as long as it is a regular medical institution and the doctor has good skills and knows how to fill autologous fat into the specific layers of the subcutaneous tissue, there will be no postoperative fat displacement.

After fat is filled into the face, it will be fixed in the filled area due to the obstruction of facial fibers. While being fixed in this position, the fat needs to establish blood supply in order to survive. Blood vessels will slowly grow around the fat to provide it with blood supply.

Fat is like a newly transplanted sapling, and fiber is like the support that fixes the sapling. The process of establishing blood vessels is like the process of the sapling taking root. With the support fixed and then rooted in the soil, the fat will stay firmly in the filled area. They won’t move around freely and can’t be driven away.

Therefore, transplanted fat and the inherent fat in the body are both "strictly controlled" by the human body, and they cannot "go wherever they want". When you see fat filling in the forehead or apple muscles, and your upper eyelids or cheeks become "swollen" a few days later, it is not because the transplanted fat has moved downward, but because of the downward flow of inflammatory edema fluid at the transplant site.

Secondly, when it comes to facial filling, the more fat is not necessarily better. The amount of filling each time should be determined according to the situation. Only the right amount will be conducive to survival and the postoperative effect will be better.