McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Fat Grafting: Youthful Face with Your Own Cells! #shorts

9 Jul 2026 · 2 min

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In this interview, McCall McPherson asks a clinician to walk through their distinctive fat‑grafting technique. The clinician explains that fat grafting involves harvesting the patient’s own fat—rich in stem cells and natural growth factors—from donor sites such as the abdomen, thighs, or belly under local anesthesia. After numbing the donor area, the fat is removed, then mechanically processed (chopped into varying particle sizes depending on the target facial region). The clinician also enriches the graft with lab‑sourced growth factors to standardize and boost longevity, compensating for age‑related variability in the patient’s native factors. The enriched fat is then injected into facial zones that commonly lose volume or collagen—temples, under‑eyes, cheeks, perioral area, and forehead—offering a more natural, stable result compared with synthetic fillers, which can migrate and carry higher risk in certain areas.

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And talk to me about the process of fat grafting, because for some people that might be a little bit foreign. You also have somewhat of a unique approach to that in terms of what you put in and all of that. But I'd love for you to take people through the process.
Sure. Fat grafting is basically harvesting your own fat cells, which have the benefit of having stem cells and growth factors already in them that are not foreign to you. They're your, they're your own and processing them and putting them in areas of your face that you would maybe have lost some volume in, or you've lost some collagen, or even just the areas have become dark because fat is yellow. It can make the areas look brighter. So a lot of my patients opt to do this in the office if they're not doing other procedures that require anesthesia. So we will locally inject some numbing medication on their legs or their belly or thighs and remove some fat. And then the way I process the fat is I chop up the fat particles in multiple different ways depending on where I put the fat. And I will also add other lab-sourced growth factors. And for me, the benefit of that is not just skin quality improvement, but I really believe that helps the fat last longer because I've taken some of your chance with your own growth factors, which are variable based on your age. And then I've removed some of the variability by adding a large amount of growth factors that are safe for you. So in doing that, I can add fat then back into your face, in your temples, under your eyes, in your cheeks, around your mouth, forehead, lots of places where either filler can be dangerous, filler can migrate, And fat just doesn't have that propensity, but it is just such a more natural, nicer result.