Aesthetic Procedures

- facial fillers
- BOTOX® Cosmetic/Dysport
- fat injection
- Fraxel re:store™
- laser hair removal
- liquid facelift

Fat Injection in Bellevue and Seattle

	If you have experienced loss of fatty tissue in some areas of your face, and occasionally rest of the body, either due to aging or trauma.
	If you have thin lips due to aging or genes.
	If you are starting to form smile lines around your mouth.
	If you desire enhancement of the chin or jaw line.
	If you do not desire to have artificial implants placed in you body and face.
	If you desire to gain significant enhancement without major surgical procedures.
	If you have had liposuction and now have irregularity of skin.

Rejuvenate and enhance thinned out areas of body by strategically placing fat in multiple layers.
Create results that are not fully absorbed and diminished.
Improve post liposuction deformity.

In our office, under local anesthesia or sedation fatty tissue is harvested in a non-traumatic fashion from appropriate areas of deposit such as inner thighs or lower abdomen. The amount of fat that is removed is not going to leave any type of
noticeable defect.
The fat is then prepared and purified by first centrifuging it in a special machine. All the oil and local anesthesia solution is purified out.
Small (1-2 millimeter) incisions are placed in strategic areas and specialized cannulas are used to microinject fatty cells into multiple layers of the appropriate area. This dramatic technique allows the fatty cells to seat in areas that can be vascularized. It is this practice that allows the cells to become permanently lodged in the areas of thinning.

Sutures are removed in 3-4 days. There is some bruising. There are no special dressings or drains. Most patient resume normal activity in 2-3 days. Depending in the areas that are done most patients have gone back to work in 3-4 days.
There is minimal discomfort associated with this procedure and oral pain medication can easily control the mild discomfort that some patients feel in the first 24 hours.

Autologus fat injection can be done in conjunction with variety of facial procedures such as facelifts.
Fat injection is becoming more accepted and is gaining significant respect in the field of aesthetic surgery. There is tremendous research on fat injection and its possible healing and rejuvenative powers deriving from potential stem like cells that are delivered to the area. Stay tuned.
Fat injection is powerful and effective for post liposuction deformities.
American Society of Plastic Surgeons offers additional information on fat injection — http://www.plasticsurgery.org.

Plastic surgeon Dr. Sepehr Egrari, serving Bellevue, Seattle and the surrounding area.