Liposuction for fat transfer was first used over 100 years ago.
The procedure was performed for the sole purpose of using the patient's
own natural cushioning tissue to fill in her cheek where a tumor had
been removed; it left a sunken space that the doctor believed he could
safely fill. Today the same ideas about fat transfer have become far
more refined; patients want to use their own fat to fill in the features
on their bodies where they cannot genetically gain more muscle or fat
volume. Instead of complaining about one's excess pounds, patients can
get some fat removed from one unwanted area and use some of that fat to
plump up another. Patients want it transferred to their lips, cheeks,
breasts, buttocks and even their hands.
