Advancements in Facial Volume Restoration

Name: Advancements in Facial Volume Restoration
Uploaded: 2025-07-16T12:01:28+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: YouTube excerpt by Dr. Charles Mok explaining facial volume restoration approaches. He contrasts synthetic dermal fillers—described as the gold standard…

16 Jul 2025 · 0 min

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YouTube excerpt by Dr. Charles Mok explaining facial volume restoration approaches. He contrasts synthetic dermal fillers—described as the gold standard because they are reversible and predictable—with autologous fat transfer techniques (starting around 2006) that use liposuction and threading fat into facial muscles/tissues to re-volumize the face.

Over the years, we kind of have transitioned from fat transfers to the face. Well, first off, we use fillers for the face, which really is the gold standard. It's reversible, very predictable. We can modify the fillers to do certain things, but there's a point where some people want to use their own body's tissues to get fillers. About 2006 or so, we started doing a special type of fat transfer to the face. We'd extract fat through liposuction and thread it into the muscles and the tissues of the face to sort of revolumize the face.