title: Future Perspectives of Fat Grafting.
abstract: Autologous fat grafting is an exciting part of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Fat serves as a filler and its role in tissue regeneration will likely play a more important role in our specialty. As we learn more about the basic science of fat grafting and the standardized techniques and instruments used for fat grafting, this procedure alone or in conjunction with invasive procedures may be able to replace many operations that we perform currently. Its minimally invasive nature will benefit greatly our cosmetic and reconstructive patients, and may even achieve better clinical outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Division of Plastic Surgery, University of California, Davis, 2221 Stockton Boulevard, Suite 2123, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. Electronic address: lee.pu@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.
authors.forename: Lee L Q
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Pu
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
authors.forename: Kotaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Sydney R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Coleman
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000637:transplantation*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D012060:Rejuvenation; D016378:Tissue Transplantation / Q000639:trends*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
keywords: Fat grafting; Fat grafting research; Regenerative surgery; Soft-tissue augmentation; Soft-tissue reconstruction