Facial fat differs from abdominal and lower extremity fat, impacting outcomes in procedures like fat grafting.

“And then when they gain weight you have to tell your patients specifically don't try to gain more than a few pounds because it will hypertrophy like it would in the abdomen if they gained weight.”

“So we know that fat is not the same throughout the body and it's not the same in the face. Um, and we know this also practically speaking because when we're doing fat grafting procedures, the source of the fat can have a different long-term effect when it's injected into the face depending on what the source was.”

“So when we do fat grafting for example and we take fat from the abdomen which has the highest concentration of stem cells priiposytes there and put them in the face the fat starts to behave more like the fat from the abdomen when you put it in the face and if they gain weight so it retains its source.”