Is autologous cheek augmentation permanent?

In today's society, appearance is the most important thing and many people are obsessed with looks. Indeed, a beautiful face can make people feel happy and want to interact with them. People with good looks can always do things better. A beautiful face requires a full forehead. Having a moist and full face is the dream of every beauty-loving woman. Plastic surgery is now a common phenomenon, and using surgery to make themselves more beautiful is the choice of many women. So is autologous cheek augmentation permanent?

1. What is Autologous Cheek Augmentation?

As long as the transplanted fat survives, the effect of autologous fat full-face surgery can be permanent. This is because the fat survival rate of autologous fat filling is only about 40% (the fat is separated from its original position and various factors affect fat survival). Therefore, it is best for those seeking beauty to consider autologous fat filling of the entire face again according to their own facial conditions in order to achieve better results of autologous fat filling of the entire face.

2. Does cheek filling have anything to do with the doctor’s technique?

The survival rate of fat transplantation is directly related to the doctor's skills and experience. This is because the full-face fat filling surgery requires the doctor to pay attention to every step of the fat collection (the best place is the fat in the thigh, because it has less fibers and is easier to survive after separation), filtering and filling. In addition, doctors and hospitals must ensure that the operating environment is safe, sterile and free of contamination. The duration of the full-face fat filling operation should not be too long, and the time the extracted fat is exposed to the body should be shortened as much as possible. Because if the fat is out of the body for too long, it will die when it is injected into the body again due to long-term lack of blood nutrition.

Therefore, choosing a doctor or medical institution is very important. High-sounding publicity does not necessarily mean good treatment results, so girls should keep their eyes open and choose a more professional hospital with a longer history to perform full-face autologous fat filling.

3. PRP injection cannot enhance the effect of fat filling on the whole face

Experts point out that it is currently unrealistic to extract stem cells and PRP to increase the survival rate of fat. Now on the market it is said that some living cells, stem cells and PRP growth factors will be added during autologous fat transplantation. But in fact, such methods only exist in laboratories. To use such methods clinically, it is necessary to extract more fat tissue or blood cells, and it takes a long time to prepare. Therefore, its actual application in clinical practice is far from popular (for example, adding adipose stem cells often requires consuming half of the extracted fat tissue as the raw material for extracting stem cells, and taking PRP requires more than 200 ml of whole blood, which takes more than two hours, and the cost will also be greatly increased). That said, the effects of adding stem cells or PRP to enhance full-face fat grafting may be limited to what is advertised.

(IV) Fat grafting of the entire face may require multiple procedures

For full-face fat filling, since there are many areas that need to be filled, such as the temples, apple muscles, cheeks, tear troughs, etc., doctors generally adopt the principle of small amounts and multiple injections. Some patients achieve relatively good results after one filling and are very satisfied with the result, so they do not need to fill it again. However, there are cases where 2-4 fillings are needed, and the number of fillings is determined by the survival rate of the fat.