Know More About Fat Grafting

Hello everyone, I am Dr Anubhav Gupta and I am a consultant Plastic and cosmetic surgeon working at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, today I am talking about a procedure called Fat grafting or lyco injection. Now the first question which comes to our mind is who is the group of patients or who are the people who can on benefit from Fat grafting. There are many conditions, for example, we can broadly divide them into reconstructive and aesthetic conditions.

In reconstructive, in congenital i.e. since birth many children have an asymmetry of the face that is one part of the face is not as developed as the other part or condition called macrosomia. So in those conditions then there are certain females very rarely though who have a Poland Syndrome that is one side of the breast is not developed. So these are the conditions which present since birth, we can do fat grafting or we can correct those conditions.

Second is post-traumatic for example there is a fracture of the face leading to atrophy or loss of fat from there, there is some depression, some depression in any part of the body which can be corrected by fat grafting. Many times there is the asymmetry of the breast, small asymmetry of the breast which can also be corrected.

Now the cosmetic indication of Fat grafting is usually related to age-related changes. Wherein there is sagging of facial tissue, Fat grafting sometimes helps in that and there many times cosmetically patients have depressions in the hand people request for fat grafting. Similarly, even in genitalia people request for enhancing the size of genitalia and we can do that by fat grafting.

And the question which comes to our mind is what exactly is done in fat grafting, basically, fat grafting is a procedure in which we take fat by technique which we uses Coleman technique and we take fat from our body which has excess of it, for example, people have flap in their tummy or thighs and buttocks. We take that fat and we process it by the procedure by centrifuging it and once we process it and then we very find out we separate the very fine fat and by a technique of finely injecting we put it to areas where it is required. So this is briefly and a rough idea of what we do.

Then something about the cost usually it costs somewhere between 25 thousand to 60-70 thousand depending on the amount of fat which needs to be injected. Then another question which might come to our mind is are there is any side effect it is a routine procedure pretty safe, usual side effect the common one is there is sometimes bruising in the areas from where we do liposuction and take out the fat.

So what they usually settle down in 3 to 4 weeks and the next question which might come to us how soon the patient can go back to work again there is some amount of swelling usually stays for 5 to 7 days and the patient can resume work after 7 days to 10 days. Thank You.