Jun/090
Stem instead of implants. Here is the future of cosmetic surgery
Regenerative surgery, which employs the use of stem cells for tissue repair could, in a not too distant future, replace the traditional plastic surgery. The techniques of tissue regeneration, which are classically used to repair or rebuild damaged tissues by scars, wounds and tumors, May therefore, be placed at the service of beauty. The available techniques used for the first time in Italy by the Istituto Tumori in Genoa, are two: one makes use of platelet growth factors, the other stem cells contained in body fat.
In the first case is used substances in the blood of patients being appropriately treated before being re-injected into the affected area, in the latter case the fat is removed from the body, usually the pelvis or belly, and used the stem cells it contains combined with cartilage. Currently, the fat cells are used together with silicone implants in cases of breast reconstruction after mastectomy, but in future they could replace them completely.
Actually ‘s body fat auto transplantation for breast enlargement is not a technique quite innovative, but in the past it has not resulted in achieving a lasting effect because of the physiological process of reabsorption, innovation is then the’ use of stem cells that would make the result more stable. The use of regenerative surgery in the field of beauty has been reflected in ISAPS Congress (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery) was held in Australia last February which was attended, along with a thousand plastic surgeons from around the world’s Italian Maurizio Valeriani, chief of plastic surgery at the San Filippo Blacks in Rome. The techniques in question, says Valeriani, have already yielded excellent results in facelifts and breast reconstruction after mastectomy Good results could be achieved in other fields of intervention such as the closure of the ulcers.