Lipofilling is also denominated fat transference, lipotransference or fat grafting. All these terms make reference to a same procedure that consists in extracting fat from those zones where it is in excess to fill up others in which there is a deficit of volume due to atrophy or a congenital lack.
Thus, the zones that more frequently take advantage this filling are:
» Glutei
» Breast
» Face
THE TECHNIQUE, HOW MUCH FAT SURVIVES OF THE INFILTRATED ONE?
In the last years diverse techniques and methods for the fat extraction and its later processing have been published. There are diverse series of patients with different degrees of fat grafting survival-resorption even with the same technique from diverse authors. For this reason, at the moment what it has been possible to conclude is that it is a surgeon dependent owing to the cares taken during all the procedure.
What does it mean? Simply to confirm that is always submitted to the answer of each organism, the better cares used in the extraction and handling of this better the greater fat survival index we will obtain.