Studies reflect the cultural shift toward natural beauty, showing that people considering aesthetic surgery desire natural-looking results. At Pearlman Aesthetic Surgery, we empower beauty, and that looks different for everyone. Our surgeons are dedicated to enhancing the features that make you who you are, not overpowering them.
As leaders in the world of aesthetic surgery, we’re pioneering effective solutions for seamless enhancements, rather than settling for a “one-size-fits-all” approach. As Dr. Brian Bassiri-Tehrani says, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and he has the proven expertise to help you achieve your goals with fat grafting in New York City.
What is fat grafting?
Fat grafting—also referred to as a fat transfer, fat injection, lipomodeling, and lipofilling—is a technique that uses liposuction to extract fat cells from one area of a patient’s body, and then injects them into another. This biocompatible aesthetic procedure offers results that look and feel natural, as it involves no foreign substances such as implants or fillers. Solely using your own tissue significantly reduces the risks of allergic reactions and infections and completely removes the risks of implant-related health concerns.
Here’s a closer look at where we can perform fat grafting, enhancing your natural beauty and restoring lost volume from head to toe.
Facial Fat Grafting
There’s science behind why we lose our “baby face.” Age and gravity cause your skin to thin, your muscles to weaken, and fat pads and bones to diminish, resulting in visible volume loss. While dermal fillers use a hyaluronic acid-based formula to replace that volume, it’s important to understand that fillers can migrate beyond the areas injected and only last for a matter of months. Facial implants offer a permanent solution, but come with inherent risks due to the insertion of foreign objects, as well as significant downtime.
Fat grafting in New York City is a uniquely biocompatible, lasting solution for facial volume loss and enhancing your face shape. However, it requires extensive anatomical expertise in facial anatomy, as the procedure repositions live cells—which is why our renowned surgeons don’t use the procedure to “fill” lines like nasolabial folds or in smaller areas such as the lips. Your weight fluctuates with age, so it’s important to account for inevitable shifts and approach facial fat grafting in New York City realistically.
Cheeks
There are 43 muscles in your face, many of them—such as the buccinator and masseter muscles—overlapping around your cheeks to allow you to speak, eat, smile, and create other expressions. Many of these muscles rely on “fast-twitch” fibers for quick, powerful movements, which are more delicate and prone to deterioration, especially when the underlying fat pads thin.
A fat graft replenishes those fat pads, providing natural lifting and contouring effects by redirecting skin and muscle tissues into a more youthful position. Depending on your goals, you can achieve higher cheekbones or more rounded cheeks to accentuate and balance your other features.
Undereyes
The skin beneath your eyes—tear troughs—is much thinner and more delicate than other areas, making it more prone to premature aging, which can leave the area looking sunken or hollow. Replenishing volume to this area creates a smoother transition between your cheeks and eyes, making you appear more awake, refreshed, and youthful. Volume loss can also create shadows beneath your eyes, resembling dark circles. A fat graft addresses those shadows by smoothing the area, allowing light to reflect on it evenly and can even impart a more youthful texture to the skin.
Temples
Your temples (temporal fossa) may be a small area, but they play a big role in the overall shape of your face by framing its upper half. Plump temples create a softer, more youthful frame, while hollow temples create a more rigid, angular frame, creating a valley in the transitional area between your forehead and cheeks.
We recommend temple fat grafting in New York City to smooth this transition for patients struggling with declining skin quality and bone resorption that imparts an almost skeletal appearance, as well as for those who have lost a significant amount of weight—no matter their age. For patients seeking more dramatic, harmonious results, we may recommend combining fat grafting with a facelift to lift the tissues in the entire upper and mid-face and further enhance contours.
Body Fat Grafting
Dr. Brian Bassiri-Tehrani also offers fat grafting to enhance your physique, offering natural alternatives to breast and butt implants to eliminate the risks of implant illnesses.
Breasts
Whether you’re worried about the risks of breast implant illness (BII) or the maintenance that comes with a breast augmentation, consider fat grafting as a natural breast implant alternative. This unique approach to breast reshaping in New York City restores youthful volume and firmness, increasing their size by one to two cup sizes while maintaining their natural teardrop shape. Our trusted breast surgeon may recommend pairing a breast lift and fat transfer in New York City to provide more comprehensive results if you’re also struggling with sagging (ptosis).
Buttocks
Implants aren’t your only option for defining your buttocks, either. Fat grafting in New York City offers greater definition with a natural look and feel to fill “hip dips” and create a fuller, rounder buttocks. A fat transfer Brazilian butt lift (BBL) enhances your curves seamlessly—unlike implants, which can create a harsh transition between your legs and buttocks and offset your physique’s natural balance.
Hands
You use your hands every day, and those repeated movements combined with constant exposure to damaging elements like the sun and chemicals cause them to age quickly. As your skin weakens and thins, your hands can appear “bony” and allow discoloration from veins and uneven texture from tendons to show at the surface.
A fat graft restores dorsal hand volume to smooth this area without the risk of appearing “overfilled.” This solution also lasts longer than dermal fillers, seamlessly integrating into the tissues without migrating.
The Process of Fat Grafting
Fat grafting is highly personalized, as every patient’s anatomy and goals are unique, requiring unique techniques. The procedure offers a range of applications, from large amounts of fat for significant volume to “micro” or “nano” fat grafting for more delicate results.
Consultation
At Pearlman Aesthetic Surgery, your journey always starts with a consultation, where our surgeons will take the time to get to know you, your struggles, and your aspirations. We’ll help you determine if fat grafting in New York City is your best solution, assessing the best donor site to collect the fat from and the precise injection points to enhance specific areas. Once we craft your personalized plan, we’ll provide you with a detailed cost estimate.
Here’s a closer look at the patient experience at Pearlman Aesthetic Surgery, where empowering you is our primary focus.
Fat Harvesting
When you arrive for your procedure, we’ll answer any questions you have and review the process again before helping you get comfortable and administering general anesthesia. Then, your surgeon will create a small incision in the predetermined donor site, typically the abdomen, flanks, thighs, or buttocks, before inserting a cannula (a thin tube).
We attach the cannula to a closed-system liposuction machine, removing fat cells on a lower setting than traditional liposuction to maintain the cells’ structural integrity, allowing the fat to slowly drip into a canister. This modern approach ensures sterility and gives cells the highest chance of survival.
Fat Purification
After carefully closing the small incisions, we’ll process the fat cells to isolate them from blood, oil, and other natural elements. This is a crucial step to our safety-focused approach to fat grafting in New York City, as removing those “impurities” minimizes inflammation and maximizes fat cell retention for the most effective, lasting results.
Fat Injections
Finally, your surgeon will collect the purified fat cells into a syringe and administer injections into your desired treatment area. We deliver this fat with extreme precision, evenly distributing cells throughout the area—on multiple depths of multiple tissue planes—from every angle for the most seamless results. Depending on your unique anatomy and desired results, we may suggest a secondary round of fat grafting in New York City, as your body absorbs some of the fat injected.
Recovery
Due to the less invasive nature of fat grafting procedures, recovery is faster and more comfortable than that of many other surgical techniques. However, prioritizing rest and allowing your incisions to fully heal is still important.
Your surgeon will provide detailed aftercare instructions depending on your unique treatment plan and schedule follow-up appointments to ensure your body heals optimally. Typically, we recommend wearing a compression garment for the weeks after your procedure to promote circulation—expediting the healing process and reducing swelling.
Ready to unlock your full potential?
You deserve to trust the hands performing your surgery, and meaningful transformations are an art just as much as they are a science. Beyond his proven medical expertise, Dr. Brian Bassiri-Tehrani‘s passion for helping patients step into the best version of themselves sets him apart.
Everyone’s idea of beauty is unique, and we honor that rather than settling for a standardized approach to fat grafting in New York City. Our personalized techniques require more than precision, skill, and a mastery of anatomy; they require truly getting to know you. Schedule your appointment at Pearlman Aesthetic Surgery to begin your journey on your terms.
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