{"id":98,"date":"2010-09-10T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/?p=98"},"modified":"2010-09-10T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T18:17:43","slug":"fat-transplantation-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/2010\/09\/10\/fat-transplantation-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Transplantation Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Study of New Technique for Fat Transplantation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fat transfer is a technique that allows correction of age-related wrinkles and fat loss using the patient&#8217;s own body fat.\u00a0 We will be undertaking a study to evaluate a new technique for autologous fat transfer.\u00a0 Fat transfer involves gentle liposuction to harvest excess fat from one part of the patient\u2019s body, isolation and cleansing of the fat cells,\u00a0and transplantation of\u00a0the fat\u00a0by injecting fat cells into another part of the patient\u2019s body (most commonly the cheeks) to correct volume loss.\u00a0 With traditional fat transfer techniques, the amount and duration of volume enhancement varies from patient to patient.\u00a0 The objective of this study is to evaluate a modification in the way we process fat for transplantation to determine whether enzyme-digested fat will last longer and produce superior volume correction of age-related wrinkles and fat loss.\u00a0 In this study, we will treat one side of the face with traditional undigested fat and other side with fat digested by an enzyme called collagenase.\u00a0 We believe that enzyme-digested fat will last longer and produce superior volume correction of age-related wrinkles and fat loss.\u00a0 If successful, this technique could provide an enhanced method of correcting large volume deficits resulting from variety of causes including age-related volume loss, traumatic injuries, cancer surgery, and other reconstructive surgery.<\/p>\n<p>We will be enrolling patients for the study this fall.\u00a0 If you are potentially interested in participating, please call the office at (856) 596-3040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study of New Technique for Fat Transplantation Fat transfer is a technique that allows correction of age-related wrinkles and fat loss using the patient&#8217;s own body fat.\u00a0 We will be undertaking a study to evaluate a new technique for autologous fat transfer.\u00a0 Fat transfer involves gentle liposuction to harvest excess fat from one part of &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/2010\/09\/10\/fat-transplantation-study\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-dzarnosky","4":"post-98","6":"format-standard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}