The medical cosmetic treatment that is called facial fat injections is being used more and more by men and women who would like their wrinkles, laugh lines, and sagging facial cheeks to be corrected. The process is also used in the buttocks area to make a shapelier buttock by reshaping and re distributing the fat in the buttocks cheeks. Fat Injections are also given to enlarge the size of the breasts. The operation is expensive and can cost upward of $5,000 or inexpensive and less that $500 depending on the area and the amount of work needed to do the body reshaping treatment.
The procedure is being eagerly sought after by many people who are under the assumption that since no foreign chemical or contrivance is inserted into the body under the skin to provide the body enhancement that it must be safer than the more traditional methods of plastic surgery and other chemical injections. In facial fat injections, a fatty part of the body like the belly is used as the donor of the fat to be used on the targeted area that the person wants reshaped. An incision is used to cut out a piece of the fat. The fat that has been cut is melted and injected into the targeted area.
The risks of facial fat injections are claimed to be minimal by the medical practitioners of facial fat injections. A licensed plastic surgeon is usually the medical person who performs facial fat injections. Some of the risks that are given are swelling or even severe swelling for a few weeks after the procedure. Before and after pictures are available at clinics that perform the surgery that is claimed to be painless. Consultation with the plastic surgeon is always necessary and there is consultation provided for those candidates who opt for facial fat injection as a means of correcting facial deformities like wrinkles and hollows and even deep acne scars.
If you are thinking about getting facial fat injections, reading reviews on the Internet might be confusing and might not apply to your particular case. As in all surgical procedures, facial fat injections, and cutting fat, heating it, and injecting it into another part of your body, is a surgical procedure and the same risks and consultations should be considered and given. The procedure has appeal to those who need a quick fix to their appearance but the length of time needed to recuperate from the swelling should be a major consideration in when to plan to get your facial fat injections.
Most online reviews of facial fat injections are positive except for the same complaints usually made for other surgical correction of wrinkles like the traditional surgical face lift. The procedure may or may not last as long as the person getting the treatment expected or the procedure has to be re done. These questions should be discussed with the surgeon prior to the injections. Online reviews write that facial fat injections can last for as long as five years or more or start to fold in six months in areas like under the eyes. Most people who got facial fat injections for facial wrinkles in the cheeks or to fill in laugh lines were more satisfied than those who went in for under the eye injections.
Facial fat injections are done in a plastic surgeon’s office. The costs are oftentimes deferred to payments if the full price of the process is too expensive for the patient. Most surgeons who specialize in surgical methods of correcting facial problems that present a significant distress to the individual are very understanding of the psychological needs of these individuals. If correcting wrinkles, hollows and other facial deformities like scars with the use of facial fat injections can make the person happier and more productive in living his life then most of these surgeons help their patients to find a way to meet the cost of the process.
As with all cosmetic treatments, thinking of the prospect of redoing the treatment in five years should not be a deterrent to living five years looking the way that makes you more assured of yourself in your interactions with other people and even with yourself.