Lipofilling (Fat Transfer)

Lipofilling at V CLINIC Brno harvests the patient's own fat from the abdomen, thighs, or flanks and reinjects it into facial areas that have lost volume — including wrinkles, under-eye circles, sunken cheeks, and thin lips. Because the material is entirely autologous (from the patient's own body), there is no risk of allergic reaction and results are permanent once the transferred fat establishes a blood supply. The 60-minute outpatient procedure uses local anaesthesia, with swelling visible for two weeks and follow-up at one month to assess integration.

Facial volume loss is a fundamental driver of facial ageing that filler injections address temporarily but lipofilling addresses durably. As the face loses fat compartment volume with age, it deflates — contours flatten, tear troughs deepen, cheek prominences reduce, and nasolabial folds deepen as the tissues above them descend. Lipofilling restores this lost structural volume using the patient's own adipose tissue, which integrates permanently into the recipient site once vascularisation is established. At V CLINIC Brno, the procedure begins with the harvest: small volumes of fat are aspirated via fine cannulas from donor areas — typically the abdomen, thighs, or flanks — under local anaesthesia. The harvested fat is then processed and purified through centrifugation to concentrate viable adipocytes and remove oil, blood, and cellular debris. The refined fat is injected in micro-aliquots through small-gauge needles or cannulas into the target facial areas — common recipients include the under-eye hollow (tear trough), cheeks, nasolabial folds, lips, and areas with deep static wrinkles. The entire procedure takes approximately 60 minutes as an outpatient treatment under local anaesthesia. Post-operatively, patients can return to office work from day two, though swelling — both at the injection sites and the donor areas — is normal and expected for two weeks. The follow-up at one month evaluates fat take-up rate, as some transferred fat is reabsorbed in the first weeks. A second session may be recommended if significant volume correction was the goal. Because only autologous material is used, there is no risk of rejection or allergy, and the established fat is permanent — unlike hyaluronic acid fillers, which are metabolised over months.