Facial fat injection surgery

Facial fat injection surgery aims to restore skin freshness and remove wrinkles and smile lines that appear with age, by injecting autologous fat from the patient’s body in the subcutaneous area of the face.

How to prepare for the operation:

• The doctor view the patient’s medical file
• The patient adheres to a set of important instructions before performing the operation. Especially quitting smoking.
• The doctor determines the areas that need facial fat injection surgery.

Facial fat injection process steps

The first steps begin with a set of tests that the doctor require. Through which the doctor makes sure that the patient does not suffer from any health problems such as diabetes, heart or high blood pressure.

We extract the fat by a thin needle from different areas of the patient’s body, especially from the abdomen or hips area.

After that, the doctor perform fat injection surgery in the specific areas of the face through small incisions that he applies.

The whole process takes place within one hour or more, depending on the areas on which fat injection is applied.

The doctor can perform local anesthesia or general anesthesia, according to the patient’s desire and health condition.

Some side effects

• The patient feel of numbness in the areas where the operation was applied.
• Redness or swelling at the site of the operation.
• An abscess appears at the site of the operation, and it can be treated with antibiotics, but according to the doctor’s advice..

Features of the facial fat injection process:

• It is one of the least dangerous operations because it depends on taking fat from the patient himself.
• Low exposure to allergens.
• The patient recovers quickly after the operation.
• The results of the operation appear quickly within a period of two weeks