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"Patients' Choice Award" by Vitals.com
Dr. Sam Naficy has been awarded the "Patients' Choice Award" by Vitals.com - a website dedicated to rating the quality of physicians across the country. Out of 720,000 physicians, only 5% received this honor.
Fat Injection
Fat transfer, fat grafting, or fat injection relies on the premise that by adding more volume to certain areas of the face, we can improve signs of aging. It is a well-known fact that as we age, the face loses volume and deflates. For many decades, we thought of aging as an excess of skin. It is now recognized that the apparent excess of skin is at least in part due to the loss of soft tissue bulk, or fat from the face. Fat may be transferred from other parts of the body (usually from the abdomen, flanks, thighs, or neck) to areas of the face in need of volume enhancement.
Fat injections can smooth certain deep wrinkles, enhance the volume of thinning lips or soft tissue of the cheek and chin, and can help the appearance of sunken eyelids. The main advantage of fat injection is that it is a 100% natural filler. The other advantage of fat is that there is usually an adequate supply of fat for areas requiring a large volume of augmentation.
Facial fat grafting by Sam Naficy, MD
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Fat injections to small areas may be performed in the office under local anesthesia. For larger volumes of fat injection, we use IV sedation which involves giving sedating medication that will make you very relaxed and sleepy during the procedure but does not require putting a breathing tube in the throat. Typically, after fat injection, there is minimal discomfort in the donor area from where fat is removed. Discoloration and swelling of the face is also typically minimal and patients are usually able to return to work and social activities in 4-5 days.
Fat injections are longer lasting than most other injectable fillers (such as Juvederm, Restylane, Perlane, and Radiesse). Because fat is a natural substance, there is typically less reaction to the injected fat by the body. Injected fat has the potential to survive for many years in the new location. Survival of fat is greater in areas where there is limited movement (cheeks, back of hands) and tends to be less in areas where there is constant movement (lips and mouth). In the lip and mouth areas fat does absorb over time and repeated injections may be necessary to maintain desired fullness.
Longevity of facial fat grafting is evident 2 years following facial fat grafting using the FAMI technique by Sam Naficy, MD
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At Naficy Rejuvenation Center, we perform over 3,000 injections per year - making us #1 in the Pacific Northwest for nearly all facial injectables! Naficy Rejuvenation Center is Seattle area's premiere location for facial injectables. We have an experienced staff of five skilled providers who regularly perform cosmetic injections. Naficy Rejuvenation Center serves as a national physician training site for advanced injection techniques. Unlike many "Medispas" and "Skin Clinics" that do not have an on-site physician, the Naficy Rejuvenation Center has a board-certified facial plastic surgeon present on-site at all times and the providers at the Naficy Rejuvenation Center have over 50 years of combined medical experience.
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