Today, I'm answering a question from Fredericka let's listen, could a
PRF treatment do the same thing as a fat transfer could do to the face.
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She's asking will a fact transfer equate, PRF injections, fact transfer.
We harvest fat.
Uh, part of the body, usually say the belly, we process it.
Sometimes we add PRF or a blood draw where we spin it down.
You get platelet rich, vibrant, many people know P R P better.
I much prefer PRF.
It's all natural.
And then we put that back into the face.
It's a great, great idea, because it's all natural.
You don't have to have any syn, anything synthetic, uh, but
remember with a fact transfer.
The thing is not all fat takes.
In other words, it doesn't all live.
Meaning each individual fat cell needs its own capillary or its own blood supply
to survive because of that, a lot of the fat dies up, but it does leave stem cells
behind fat has 10% Meenal stem cells.
A stem cell is something that can grow into other cells, skin, bone.
Other fat different things.
So, and it rejuvenates.
So you get rejuvenation, you get some of the fat that comes back.
But remember we took the fat from the belly.
It's gonna act like belly fat in the face.
So estrogen changes.
If one has more propensity to grow their belly fat, it will grow in the face more.
Uh, so it doesn't always.
It's imperfect.
You can have irregularities, uh, but it is a good procedure for some that
don't want fillers or bio stimulators.
The question is, can it equal PRF, platelet rich fi we take the blood draw.
We spin it down to get your own growth factors.
Meenal stem cells cytokines.
We inject it back.
Now.
The blood draw is ways than getting a fact transfer.
There's 1%.
Stem cells in peripheral blood.
The thing is I can come get your blood three or four times a year.
You don't care.
It's only, uh, we're taking, um, 40 MLS max, maybe 50 MLS, small
amount of blood, but I can then kind of add it up over time.
I can rejuvenate it, uh, the face or wherever replacing it.
And you don't have to get fat retaken if it doesn't look perfect.
So there's positives and negatives, but fat will give you a more robust one time
hit because often we overfill with fat.
Um, some people are real good with fat transfer others aren't so the
take rates are anywhere from 30 to 80%, so they're very different.
Um, one's much more invasive, but neither of them, can you say, this
is the result you're gonna get?
Here's the after picture you're gonna get, because we're depending
on your own bodies, um, regenerating factors and the amount that we put in.
To get the final result.
So they're both somewhat imperfect.
Why do way more PRF and PRF gel, where we heat the blood product is because
I can do a couple sessions, six weeks apart, and then I can touch up as needed.
Most people come in for PRF and gel products where we heat that,
um, that blood product, uh, once a.
After two sessions initially.
So it's much more palatable.
Uh, however, we can't use that in the buttock.
You can, but it's just not robust enough.
The face is a good application for PRF platelet Ridge vibrant.
The buttock is much more well suited for large volume of transfer.
So those are some difference.
Fat and PRF while they share some similarities they're
used in much different ways.
And patients may just not want their fat harvested to put
in their face multiple times.
Whereas they're much more willing to get a blood draw.
Watch my many videos on fat transfer versus PRF and PRF versus P R P.
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