Abstract
Liposuction has become one of the most commonly performed cosmetic surgical procedures. A natural offspring of liposuction, liporecycling, has simultaneously been developed as an effective procedure in soft-tissue augmentation. The graft material for this procedure is collected during reduction liposuction performed with tumescent anesthesia. The tumescent solution allows for the use of specially designed microcannulas. In this way, pure fat cells are harvested that can easily be used immediately or frozen and kept for future subdermal reinjection through small syringes. The results in soft-tissue augmentation and facial rejuvenation are comparable to those of collagen injection but show a number of significant advantages.
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