Facial fat grafting uses your own tissue to replenish volume and refine facial contours. Dr. Derek Sheen injects the processed fat with precision, paying attention to structure, proportion, and overall balance.
This procedure addresses:
Hollow or sunken cheeks
Under-eye hollows
Temple volume loss
Deep facial folds
Thin or aging lips
Uneven facial contours
Volume loss after weight changes
Selected facial scars or depressions
Facial aging involves more than skin laxity. Fat compartments can shrink or shift over time, causing hollowed cheeks, sunken temples, deeper folds, or less support beneath the eyes.
Dr. Sheen offers facial fat grafting for Plano patients who want to restore volume using their own tissue. He evaluates the face as a whole and places fat where it can support proportion, structure, and continuity.
Replenish Lost Facial Volume
Facial aging involves more than skin laxity. Fat compartments can shrink or shift over time, causing hollowed cheeks, sunken temples, deeper folds, or less support beneath the eyes.
Dr. Sheen offers facial fat grafting for Plano patients who want to restore volume using their own tissue. He evaluates the face as a whole and places fat where it can support proportion, structure, and continuity.
You may benefit from this procedure if aging, genetics, or weight loss has reduced facial fullness. It may also help improve contour irregularities or restore volume around the cheeks, temples, lips, and lower eyelids.
Ideal candidates should be healthy enough for surgery and have a suitable donor area, such as the abdomen or thighs. Patients should also maintain a stable weight. Fat grafting may not suit patients who have too little body fat for collection or medical conditions that increase surgical risks.
Dr. Sheen reviews your health, medications, previous procedures, and expectations before recommending treatment.
Fat grafting involves 3 main stages: harvesting, processing, and placement. Dr. Sheen first removes a limited amount of fat from a donor area using liposuction.
The collected fat is then processed to separate healthy fat cells from fluid and other material. Then, Dr. Sheen carefully injects small amounts of fat into selected facial areas. Placing the fat in thin layers helps the cells establish a blood supply within the surrounding tissue.
Not every transferred fat cell survives. Because absorption varies between patients, Dr. Sheen may place slightly more volume than the final result requires.
Fat grafting allows Dr. Sheen to restore volume without relying on a synthetic implant or manufactured filler. Your own fat can integrate with nearby facial tissue as well.
Furthermore, this procedure addresses several areas during one surgical plan. Dr. Sheen can perform it alone or combine it with a deep plane facelift, blepharoplasty, or brow lift when volume loss contributes to facial aging.
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Both options restore volume, but they use different materials. Dermal fillers contain manufactured injectable substances, such as hyaluronic acid. Fat grafting uses fat collected from your own body.
Fillers take less time and generally require less recovery. Fat grafting involves liposuction and surgery but produces longer-lasting volume. Dr. Sheen can explain which option best fits your concerns, timeline, and desired outcome.
Dr. Sheen may collect fat from the abdomen, thighs, hips, or another area with enough donor tissue.
We often only use a limited amount for facial enhancements. And please note that the liposuction portion supports fat collection rather than major body contouring or weight loss.
Fat cells that establish a healthy blood supply can remain for years. However, some transferred cells naturally absorb during healing, and the amount retained differs between patients.
Your weight, health, aging process, and aftercare can influence the results as well. Patients choosing facial fat grafting in Plano should know that a touch-up from Dr. Sheen helps maintain or refine their desired volume.
Yes. A facelift repositions dropping tissue, while fat grafting replenishes volume. Combining them can address 2 different aspects of facial aging within one surgical plan.
Dr. Sheen may place fat in the cheeks, temples, under-eye region, or other areas while performing a facelift. He recommends combined procedures only when they support balanced results and fit safely within your recovery plan.
Possible risks include bleeding, infection, asymmetry, contour irregularities, prolonged swelling, fat absorption, cysts, calcification, and changes in sensation. Rare but serious complications can also occur if fat enters a blood vessel.
Dr. Sheen will review the potential risks before your procedure. Following all preparation, wound-care, and activity instructions helps support proper healing after your facial fat grafting in Plano.
