Facial Fat Grafting with G-Stem in Beverly Hills, CA
Facial fat grafting, also known as liposculpture, is a combined cosmetic procedure that removes unwanted fat from one part of the body, using liposuction, and purifies it for injection into the face to enhance facial beauty and restore a more youthful look.
Why would you want to add fat to your face? As we age, we lose fat from our face. This can cause the cheeks to flatten or hollow, dark circles to form under the eyes, lips to thin, and creases and lines to develop. Facial fat grafting uses your own tissue to restore lost facial volume and reverse these signs of aging and help restore skin resilience. Dr. Golshani has developed an advanced G-Stem technique for processing the fat for injection that boosts the concentration of restorative stem cells within the tissue.
Daniel Golshani, MD, FACS performs facial fat grafting in Beverly Hills to help men and women achieve more sculpted body contours and rejuvenated facial appearance. As a double board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Golshani has profound expertise and experience in cosmetic facial surgery and fat grafting. Dr. Golshani has earned international recognition for the beautiful, natural quality of his plastic surgery results and innovations in surgical techniques. His caring focus on each patient begins with the initial consultation and carries into their recovery and follow-up.
To learn more about the body and facial improvements possible with facial fat grafting, contact us to reserve your private consultation with Dr. Golshani.
What Is Facial Fat Grafting?
Facial fat grafting combines two cosmetic treatments. First, liposuction is used to gently remove excess fat from areas, such as the abdomen, buttocks, hips, or thighs, where a sculpted, slimming effect is desired. Some of the extracted fat is then refined for injection into areas of the face that would benefit from added volume. In Dr. Golshani’s advanced G-Stem fat grafting technique, the concentration of adipose stem cells is enhanced for added cosmetic benefits.
By strategically placing injections of purified fat, facial fat grafting can soften wrinkles, smooth fine lines around the lips, add definition to the jawline, make lips and cheeks fuller, and fill in hollows under the eyes.
The same fat grafting, or liposculpture, process can be used to transfer fat to enhance other parts of the body, including the buttocks or breasts and improve the appearance of scars.
Why You Might Consider Facial Fat Grafting in Beverly Hills with Dr. Golshani
Dr. Golshani is a double board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon who takes a highly customized approach to each body and facial procedure. Each body and face are unique, and even small changes to their contours can enhance their appearance in unique ways. As such, Dr. Golshani uses his tremendous skills as a surgeon and deep understanding of body and facial anatomy to create natural-looking results, tailored to bring out the best in each patient’s appearance. He has also made innovative advances in fat grafting—his proprietary G-Stem technique—that increases the concentration of stem cells in the fat processed for injection.
One of the great appeals of facial fat grafting is that it’s a “2 in 1” procedure: you’ll lose extra fat from an area of your body that you’d like to slim while restoring a more youthful look to your face. Another appeal is that your own fat tissue is used to add volume to your face. No artificial or manufactured substance is used, and the results, in most cases, are permanent rather than the temporary results of dermal fillers.
Facial fat grafting may be the ideal solution if you have excess fat in your abdomen, waistline, hips, thighs, or upper arms that you would like to trim, and you’d like to enhance the appearance of your face by:
- Adding volume to thin or hollowed cheeks
- Filling sunken areas below your eyes
- Smoothing creases around your mouth and nose
- Adding definition to a recessed chin
- Plumping thin lips
- Correcting facial asymmetry, such as unevenly shaped lips
- Filling recessed scars to make them less noticeable
Note that facial fat grafting by itself will not correct problems with loose or sagging facial skin. However, to help address sagging skin, facial fat grafting can be combined with a deep plane facelift.
Planning Your Los Angeles Facial Fat Grafting Procedure
Your consultation with Dr. Golshani is a critical step in planning a successful facial fat grafting procedure. A patient coordinator will meet with you briefly before Dr. Golshani joins the consultation and will stay in the room to take notes. Dr. Golshani will ask questions to understand your goals for treatment and your medical history. He will then assess the extent and location of the excess fat on your body (to determine whether you are a candidate for liposuction) and the opportunities for enhancing your facial appearance by adding fat to thinned or hollowed areas. He will also consider the quality and resilience of your facial skin.
To ensure you have the necessary information to make an educated decision, Dr. Golshani will recommend a treatment approach, then explain what you can expect throughout the process, how to prepare for the procedure, care for yourself afterward, your likely outcome, and your risks. Dr. Golshani will answer your procedural questions, and our patient coordinator will answer your non-surgical questions afterward.
Meet Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon
Daniel Golshani, MD
Dr. Golshani is a double board-certified plastic surgeon who is committed to enhancing your natural beauty. With a focus on balance, harmony, and symmetry, he is passionate about making aesthetic goals a reality at his Beverly Hills practice. We are not only dedicated to your personal cosmetic beauty, but also to ensuring your health, safety, and comfort.
Are You a Good Candidate for Facial Fat Grafting?
During your consultation, Dr. Golshani will determine whether you are a good candidate for facial fat grafting. You are probably a good candidate if you have areas of excess fat suitable for slimming with liposuction, and you:
- Are bothered by flattened cheeks, hollows under your eyes, a weak chin, thin lips, or facial lines and wrinkles
- Are in good overall health
- Do not smoke, or can quit smoking for six weeks before and after the surgery
- Have realistic expectations for the outcome of the procedure
- Are aware of the surgical risks
If you are also bothered by loose or sagging facial skin, Dr. Golshani may recommend a facelift instead of or in combination with facial fat grafting.
How to Prepare for Your Facial Fat Grafting Procedure
Dr. Golshani will provide specific instructions on how to prepare for your treatment. These may include measures to take in the weeks before surgery, such as stopping smoking and fortifying your health, and short-term measures, such as discontinuing certain medications and avoiding herbal supplements in the days just before your procedure.
What to Expect on the Day of Your Los Angeles Facial Fat Grafting Procedure
Facial fat grafting is performed as an outpatient procedure, using either general anesthesia or a local anesthetic with sedation. The procedure is performed in our state-of-the-art surgical center, the Rexford Surgical Institute, which is located in our building on the same floor as our office.
Dr. Golshani will begin by making small incisions in the donor areas large enough a thin surgical tube, or cannula, to extract the fat via liposuction. When sufficient fat has been removed from the treated areas, the liposuction incisions will be closed.
A portion of the fat is then processed for injection with Dr. Golshani’s G-Stem fat-purification technique, which increases the amount of stem cells in the processed fat. The liquified fat is then injected into the face according to the procedural plan, in precisely calibrated amounts, to add volume.
Once you are fully alert, a trusted friend or family member can drive you home.
What to Expect After Your Facial Fat Grafting Procedure
You’ll be recovering from two procedures: liposuction and facial fat injections. You can expect some swelling and bruising at the sites of both treatments in the first few days. Any discomfort you experience can usually be managed with over-the-counter pain medication. If only a small amount of fat has been removed from the donor site via liposuction, you may resume most normal activities quickly. If larger amounts of fat have been removed, you may need to rest at home for a few days.
Dr. Golshani and his staff will provide thorough instructions on how to care for yourself as you recover and when to return for follow-up visits.
You’ll see the first signs of improvement in about a week; however, your face may appear fuller. Your results will gradually improve as residual swelling resolves and some of the injected fat is processed out of your body as waste. In about six months, you’ll see the final results of both the liposuction and facial fat grafting procedures as your body will have adjusted to its new contours.
Schedule Your Facial Fat Grafting Consultation in Beverly Hills
Contact us today to schedule your private consultation with Dr. Golshani to learn how facial fat grafting can sculpt your body and enhance the natural beauty of your face.
Facial Fat Grafting FAQs -Beverly Hills, CA
Yes. Facial fat grafting can be combined with cosmetic facial surgery or Med Spa treatments to address loose, sagging skin, skin tone and texture, and other concerns. Dr. Golshani offers his Los Angeles patients a combined procedure called the G-Stem facelift, which includes a multi-planar SMAS facelift, a neck lift with corset platysmaplasty, and advanced facial fat grafting. The results are natural-looking, balanced, and long-lasting.
The results of facial fat grafting are very long-lasting. In the first few weeks, some of the grafted fat will be processed out of the body as waste, but most of it— typically 50 to 75%—will permanently settle where it has been placed. It links to the blood supply and becomes part of your face’s new contours. This is in contrast to the more temporary results of treatment with dermal fillers, which typically require maintenance injections after a few months.
Of course, the skin on your face will continue to age, and the force of gravity may, over many years, pull some of the fat downward from its initial youthful-looking position. At that point, you may consider having a facelift with Dr. Golshani.
