Face Plumping: Don’t Do This at Home
September 12th, 2011
A woman in Illinois died last week after injecting herself with melted beef fat, according to Chicago radio station WLS-AM. Fat graft injections have been a popular media subject lately and I have done several postings on this blog about the procedure. Common sense dictates that these procedures are done in a clinical setting, performed by qualified medical personnel. It defies reason to understand why a woman might take it upon herself to melt some beef fat on her stove and think it was safe to inject it into her face! Apparently this was not the first time she took upon herself to conduct her own kitchen cosmetic surgery. The Cook County Medical Examiners office has not released the autopsy finding yet. However, it certainly goes without saying, “Don’t try this at home!”
Lipofilling Safe for Mastectomy Patients
September 8th, 2011
Women who have fat graft injections or lipofilling after mastectomies face no greater risk of disease recurrence than those who do not undergo lipofilling, according to a recent study by European plastic surgeons.
Following surgery, many cancer patients are left with severely damaged skin and tissue. Lipofilling is a specialized fat grafting surgical procedure in which aspirated (liposuction) fat tissue is first taken from a donor site. Typical donor sites are the abdomen or flanks. Then it is centrifuged, treated and injected into the breast. The fat grafts naturally contain a population of adipose cells and the regenerative properties of the cells are particularly beneficial in healing tissue damaged by radiation.
Fat grafting is a less invasive technique to fill the void of tissue loss in reconstruction of the breasts. Liopfilling offers women another choice and it is a technique that does not require immediate action following a mastectomy.
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