Fat Grafting
in Austin, TX
An autologous fat transfer designed to gently harvest your own fat cells, purify them, and place them into targeted areas to restore youthful fullness.
An autologous fat transfer designed to gently harvest your own fat cells, purify them, and place them into targeted areas to restore youthful fullness.
Fat grafting (autologous fat transfer) offers an enduring way to restore fullness where time, weight shifts, or prior surgeries have taken their toll on volume. At Align Plastic Surgery in Austin, TX, Dr. Tosan Ehanire uses microscopic micro-grafting techniques to harvest your own fat cells, refine them, and place them where they are needed. Whether softening deep facial lines or augmenting contours, her focus remains on creating aesthetic improvements that blend effortlessly into your natural frame.
At our office in Austin fat grafting involves taking fat from one area of the body (such as the abdomen, flanks, or thighs) and refining it to place into areas needing subtle fullness.
Because the procedure uses your own body tissue, there is virtually zero risk of an allergic reaction.
During the fat transfer procedure, a thin tube is used during a gentle liposuction procedure to remove fat from a donor area. The harvested fat is then processed into purified fat and carefully injected in small amounts into targeted areas. Over time, the transferred fat integrates with surrounding tissue, developing a new blood supply to maintain long-term volume.
Performed as an outpatient procedure under local anesthesia or general anesthesia, your experience is fully tailored to your comfort. Dr. Ehanire begins by personalizing and marking both donor and recipient sites, mapping out your body's natural contours to ensure balanced results.
Through a discreet incision in the donor site, excess fat is harvested. The fat tissue is purified using specialized washing and filtration techniques to isolate the healthiest, most viable fat cells. Dr. Ehanire then meticulously places the purified fat through micro-cannulas into the desired area, correcting deep wrinkles, nasolabial folds, facial scars, hollow cheekbones, or adding volume to the breasts as part of a breast reconstruction or subtle breast augmentation. The fat grafting technique involves micro-droplet layering at multiple structural depths to encourage cellular survival. You will rest comfortably in recovery before being driven home the same day.
With fat grafting Austin patients can address a broad spectrum of structural volume loss, age-related depletion, and reconstructive tissue irregularities:
Fat transfer can add soft, natural volume to many parts of your body. It is often used to smooth out wrinkles on the face, fill in hollow cheeks, or make the hands look more youthful. Some people also choose it to subtly shape the breasts or help blend the edges of implants.
Fat grafting in Austin offers transformative aesthetic, structural, and cellular benefits by using your own tissue to restore volume without introducing foreign materials or synthetic devices.
Because autologous fat transfer relies entirely on your own fat cells, the volume created looks, feels, and moves completely naturally with your expressions and body posture. There is zero risk of synthetic allergic reactions, capsular hardening, or foreign body rejection, ensuring complete integration into your existing tissue layer.
The fat grafting process provides a two-in-one refinement: gentle, targeted liposuction streamlines a donor area (such as the lower abdomen, waist, or thighs), while the purified fat cells sculpt and restore youthful fullness to recipient areas that need elevation or softening.
Transferred fat tissue contains a rich concentration of natural regenerative cells and growth factors. As these cells establish a new blood supply, they release signals that help improve overlying skin elasticity, soften fine surface texture, and enhance overall skin radiance in treated areas over time.
Unlike temporary hyaluronic acid facial fillers that break down every 6 to 18 months, fat cells that successfully establish a vascular connection become a permanent part of your tissue matrix, offering enduring fullness for years to come.
Ideal candidates for fat grafting are healthy adults seeking natural volume enhancement who have sufficient donor fat reserves and realistic expectations about subtle, organic transformation.
Good Candidates Include:
Who May Not Be an Ideal Candidate:
Recovery from fat grafting is straightforward and well-tolerated, requiring minimal downtime as both donor and recipient sites heal.
While initial fullness is visible immediately, your final fat grafting results unfold over 2 to 3 months as acute post-operative swelling resolves and transferred tissue settles naturally into place. During the first few weeks, the body naturally reabsorbs a portion of the unvascularized fat cells, leaving behind the permanent, healthy fat cells that have established a robust new blood supply.
Once this vascular connection is fully formed, the remaining fat cells become a permanent part of your natural body structure. Because these living fat cells respond naturally to weight fluctuations and age in harmony with your surrounding tissue, your restored contours will remain soft, smooth, and authentic for decades to come.
At Align Plastic Surgery, Dr. Tosan Ehanire treats autologous tissue transfer as a delicate balance between cellular science and structural artistry. Serving patients in Austin, TX, she brings extensive reconstructive training and a quiet, partner-led philosophy to every consultation. Rather than overfilling or altering your natural expressions, Dr. Ehanire carefully places purified fat micro-droplet by micro-droplet, ensuring high cell survival rates and a soft, seamless result that simply looks like you at your most rested.
Typically, 60% to 70% of transferred fat cells establish a permanent blood supply and remain permanently in the treated areas. Dr. Ehanire accounts for this natural retention rate during surgical planning to ensure your final result reflects your exact volume goals.
Fat grafting is a very safe procedure because it uses your own tissue. Minor risks include temporary swelling, bruising, or mild asymmetry. While small risks like minor fat necrosis (firm oil cysts) or uneven absorption exist, serious complications like a fat embolism are extremely rare when performed by a skilled, board-certified plastic surgeon using blunt micro-cannulas and precise layering techniques.
Yes. Unlike temporary synthetic dermal fillers that require re-injection every 6 to 18 months, autologous fat transfer uses your own living tissue to provide permanent, natural-looking volume that integrates seamlessly with your facial anatomy.
