Patient education
Fat Grafting: Guides
Twelve guides written for the person deciding about a transfer rather than the person studying the operation. They follow one question each: what the donor site costs you, how a plan handles unpredictable survival, what happens if you want less afterwards, and when fat is the wrong answer.
All guides
12 guides
- Two Wounds, One Operation: The Donor Site Is Part of the DealThe Donor Site
- What a Good Plan Does About Graft SurvivalPlanning
- Fat Grafting Is Not Reversible the Way Other Volume IsReversibility
- How Long Grafted Fat Lasts, and What Changes ItDurability
- Candidacy for Fat Grafting: Reading the Recipient AreaCandidacy
- When Fat Is Offered for Skin Quality Rather Than VolumeSkin Quality
- Weight Stability Before a TransferPreparation
- When Two Recipient Areas Compete for the Same FatStaging
- Judging a Fat Transfer Before It Has SettledJudging
- A Second Transfer: What Revision Can and Cannot CorrectRevision
- Anaesthesia and Operative Time in a Fat TransferAnaesthesia
- When Fat Grafting Is the Wrong AnswerDeciding
Decide with the donor site in view
Arrange an assessment. We will examine both the area you want treated and the area the fat would come from, tell you honestly what cannot be predicted about survival, and say when a different answer is the better one.