Dr. Sam Lam Plastic Surgery Forum

Good evening Dr. Lam, i am a boy of 29 years in Rome and I recently suffered a loss of fat from my cheeks (after session of IPL). I was thinking about the transfer of fat but I have some curiosity about this procedure: 1 is necessary to wait for further normalize the situation?, consider that they are now almost three months .. 2 is more likely to survive grafted fat in people who have suffered this loss due to medical procedures or who are simply getting older? 3 age is a factor? 4 because when it comes to fat transfer refers to stem cells? I mean the fat that was in those areas previously not already contained? 5 if happened to be suffering from post-operative infection, the procedure would have been in vain? and what other effects could lead to a complication like this? further loss of fat? Thank you in advance.

1. Wait at least a year
2. Should not matter.
3. In general, the risk of doing someone young is Rick of a lot of weight gain when u r older. If your weight stays stable within 5-15 pounds u should be fine.
4. The role of stem cells in fat is still unclear. Don't bank on it.
5. Infection is very rare. In several hundred cases I have done, I have never seen it.
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