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Facial Fat Transfer Recovery: What To Expect Day by Day (Updated 2024)

Facial fat transfer is an excellent way to add volume to the face, creating a youthful and refreshed appearance. It offers many advantages, including long-lasting results. Still, you likely have questions about your facial fat transfer procedure and its recovery process. We'll outline what you can expect in this post. Facial Fat Transfer Before and …

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How Plastic Surgeons Treat “Ozempic Face” After Rapid Weight Loss

While many people are excited about the rapid weight loss made possible by modern medications, it can sometimes lead to unexpected changes in your appearance, such as facial volume loss, sometimes referred to as "Ozempic face." At Youthful Reflections Facial Plastic Surgery Center, we understand the emotional and physical challenges that accompany these changes. As …

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Does Facial Fat Transfer Last After 5 Years?

Using a patient's fat as a natural facial filler is an increasingly popular technique, but I've used it for much of my career as a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon. Facial fat transfer is effective as a standalone filler and enhances facelift surgery results by replacing lost volume. One of the questions patients ask about …

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Facelift Before and After: See What’s Possible

If you are experiencing signs of aging on your face and neck that can’t be improved by nonsurgical treatments, there are effective surgical options available. Our goal at Youthful Reflections Plastic Surgery is to enhance and improve your facial features rather than drastically change them. Some popular facial surgery options include brow lifts, eyelid surgery, …

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Can You Tighten a Saggy Face? 4 Skin Tightening Options

If you’ve googled “can you tighten a saggy face,” you’ve likely seen an assortment of home remedies such as skin-firming creams and advice ranging from massaging the area to applying mashed banana paste. Even though a daily skincare routine is important for maintaining healthy and youthful-looking skin, tightening saggy skin often requires nonsurgical or surgical …

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How Long Does Facial Fat Grafting Swelling Last?

Using a patient’s own fat as a natural facial filler—a technique I’ve used for many years—has become increasingly popular in the last decade. Fat transfer, also called fat grafting, is effective as a standalone minimally invasive procedure or as part of facelift surgery. Many patients who aren’t familiar with fat transfer often want to know …

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Facial Fat Grafting Treatment Areas

Plastic surgeons have been using a patient's own fat for aesthetic purposes—a technique called fat grafting or fat transfer—for decades. I use facial fat grafting to enhance my Nashville patients' facelift results and as a natural alternative to facial fillers. How Does Fat Grafting Work on the Face? Fat is an excellent filler to treat …

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Fat Transfer and Facelift: How You Can Benefit From Both

Even though fat transfer on its own can be an effective treatment for appropriate patients, most facial plastic surgeons now recognize the benefit of combining fat grafting with facelift surgery to improve volume. In fact, I often combine the fat grafting technique with facelift surgery in Nashville, TN, as part of my signature Reflection Lift. As …

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3 Reasons Facelifts Remain Popular

If you Google “top aesthetic trends” you’ll see lists that include BOTOX®, laser skin treatments, lip fillers, and a few other nonsurgical facial rejuvenation treatments. But there’s another procedure tucked in those lists that might be a bit surprising—facelift surgery. That’s certainly true in the Nashville, TN, area, as people realize that the time-tested procedure …

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What Is Fat Transfer for the Face?

Many people concerned about losing the facial volume that creates a more youthful appearance often turn to dermal fillers as a nonsurgical solution. Patients, however, are often surprised that their own fat can be used as a natural filler to restore volume to sunken cheeks, create plumper lips, or smooth out facial wrinkles. Fat grafting …

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Worth Waiting For

We understand you want your facial plastic surgery right away, but when it comes to your safety and appearance, patience pays off. Immediate appointments aren’t always available because Dr. Boggess:

  • Is highly accomplished, and his services are in demand.

  • Takes his time to ensure outstanding safety, care, and results.

  • Offers personalized techniques that aren’t available elsewhere.

We are worth the wait.

If you can’t see Dr. Boggess right away, learn why waiting for the best facial plastic surgeon is essential and how you can make the most of that time in blog post.

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