Fat Grafting: How It Works
Fat grafting is a procedure where the patient’s own fat is harvested and transferred to a different part of the bod. The benefit of this type of grafting is that there’s no danger of rejection. It’s used for everything from reconstructing a breast lost, to a mastectomy, to filling out lips that the patient believes are unattractively thin.
The fat is removed from the body through liposuction. During liposuction, the doctor uses a suction cannula to remove unwanted fat from areas such as the buttocks, the thighs, or the abdomen. The fat is then placed in a sterile flask, then placed in individual syringes that are put in a centrifuge. The centrifuge separates the fat cells from other cells and tissue that might have been pulled out during the liposuction. Then, the separated fat cells are put into smaller syringes, and they are then ready to be injected back into the patient.