Long-term outcome of autologous fat transplantation in aesthetic facial recontouring: sixteen years of experience with 1936 cases.

Fat grafts have become an important and necessary procedure in the field of plastic surgery. The author presents experiences with two types of patients: older people with thin facial soft tissues, in whom the combination of lifting and lipoinjection gives good results; and patients with progressive hemifacial atrophy caused by Parry-Romberg's syndrome in whom normal or almost normal facial contour can be achieved. The longterm survival of fat grafts is presented. This procedure has been used by the author for the past 16 years.