Lipostructure - Fat transfert - Lipofilling
With this technique the body’s own fat tissue is used for treating deep wrinkles, lip
enlargement, lifting cheekbones, correcting hollow cheeks and for fading out skin
irregularities.
Injecting fat used to be carried out with fat tissue obtained from simple
liposuction without treating the fat tissue first. This means that also red blood
cells, dead fat cells and connective tissue were injected in large quantities.
Needless to say the results of this technique were generally poor. There was a lot
of resorption, scar formation or hardening of the injected fat.
With the new Coleman technique the fat tissue is cleaned and prepared before
being injected, allowing for lasting good results in most cases. The advantage of own
fat tissue is that it does not trigger any allergic or antibody reactions, as it is the
body’s own material that is used. Once the fat cells are taken on and survive after
injection, this technique accounts for a lasting result.
The treatment
This takes places under a local anaesthetic. Own body fat is taken away at the
height of the navel. This is done with special canulas that are inserted through an
incision of only a few millimetres.
The fat tissue then undergoes centrifugation in order to separate the living fat
cells from the red blood cells. The pure fat cells are then inserted into the tissue
of either lips (lip enlargement) or under deep folds (e.g. nose/lip fold). For this
other special canulas are used.
A slight over correction is performed as about 30 to 50% of the injected fat cells
are lost the first days after being injected. That is why the procedure sometimes
needs to be repeated after three months. However, in most case this is not
necessary.
After treatment
The Coleman fat injection technique causes somewhat more bruising after surgery. This is especially visible the first few days: swelling and/or skin turning blue. After about ten days the bruising will normally have disappeared.
