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Fat Transfer for Non-Aesthetic Procedures

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Most often, autologous fat transplantation has been used for aesthetic purposes to fill defects and augment tissues. Autologous fat has been used in non aesthetic situations such as migraine headaches, clival chordoma surgery, congenital short palate, vocal cord paralysis, lumbar laminectomy, sulcus vocalis, vocal cord scar, hemifacial atrophy, myringoplasty, eye socket reconstruction, frontal sinus fracture, temporomandibular joint reconstruction, and other disorders. This opens the door to many more applications. Further research is important to find other uses for fat transfer.

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Shiffman, M.A. (2010). Fat Transfer for Non-Aesthetic Procedures. In: Shiffman, M. (eds) Autologous Fat Transfer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00473-5_42

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