Fat Grafting versus Fat Transfer versus Fat Injection - What is the Difference?

Answer:  There is no difference.  Fat grafting and fat transfer are used interchangeably; they both mean the same thing.  Originally, when fat was being moved from one location to another, it became noted under the title of “fat grafting”.  This is similar to other types of grafts, in which skin or hair are moved from one part of the body to another by plastic surgeons.  When you take a hair follicle and move it from the back of the head to the front of the head, it actually grows because that hair knows here it came from, and it is not destined by its genetic profile to eventually fall out.  Skin grafts have been used for over 100 years to cover a defect when it is taken from one part of the body using healthy skin and moving it to another part of the body where there is burned or disfigured skin.  That is why fat grafting came in to play as a word because plastic surgeons were moving fat from one location of the body to another to replace fat that was lost.  The new fat taken from another part of the body is programmed to live; whereas, the location where the fat is being placed has been lost.  Probably because the general public did not quite understand what the word “fat grafting” actually meant, many people in the media, as well as plastic surgeons, started to use the word “fat transfer” to basically mean the same thing, that being to move fat from one part of the body to another.  Fat grafting or fat transfer has been becoming more mainstream recently because of the tremendous amount of publicity in stem cell research.  There are ongoing studies being done that may take a decade to be substantiated.  There is ongoing research that may prove that fat cells can represent a certain percent of stem cells.  Fat grafting and/or the word “fat transfer” are becoming very popular, and this article is for informational purposes to help the public better understand that these are used interchangeably, and they basically mean the same thing.

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[Nose job]

Great read, i was getting confused with the 2 terms being used interchangably, espcially on this site (http://www.beauty-pro.de) glad i found this article. Cleared everything up for me ;)