Facial Rejuvenation with Own Fat (Lipofilling)

Lipofilling at PRIMED Clinic rejuvenates the face using the patient's own fat: a small amount is harvested by gentle liposuction, processed, and injected into hollowed cheeks, deep folds, tear troughs, or thinning lips. The graft restores youthful volume with fully biocompatible tissue, and the clinic notes that serious complications are rare with this technique.

Facial ageing is as much about volume loss as it is about sagging — the deep fat compartments of the cheeks, temples, and around the mouth deflate over time, hollowing the face. Lipofilling (autologous fat grafting) reverses this with the most biocompatible filler available: the patient's own fat. A small volume is harvested by fine-cannula liposuction from the abdomen or thighs, centrifuged or filtered to concentrate viable fat cells and their regenerative stromal fraction, and then layered in small aliquots into the areas needing volume — cheeks, tear troughs, nasolabial folds, marionette lines, lips, temples, or the jawline. A proportion of the grafted fat (commonly 30–50%) is resorbed in the first months; what survives is permanently integrated, living tissue, which distinguishes lipofilling from temporary hyaluronic fillers. Some patients plan a second session to top up volume once the first graft has stabilised. At PRIMED Clinic the procedure is performed under local anaesthesia (or light sedation), taking about 1–1.5 hours including harvesting. Recovery involves swelling and possible bruising of both the face and the small donor zone for one to two weeks. The clinic's guidance highlights that serious health complications are rare with lipofilling; as with any grafting procedure, realistic volume planning at consultation is the key to a natural result. Lipofilling is frequently combined with facelift or eyelid surgery for comprehensive rejuvenation.