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A Fat Bank

By on October 10, 2012 in Ideas

Liquid Gold Liposuction Bank

South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

Giving new meaning to the phrase recycle, repurpose, reuse, a Seminole County plastic surgeon is opening a fat bank Friday so patients who have fat removed during liposuction can store it for future use.

Cosmetic surgeons who perform fat-transfer procedures typically transfer the patient’s fat immediately after removing it through liposuction, often within the hour. Common sites for the transferred fat are the face and breasts.

Having their fat in the bank would allow patients to draw on it later, when they want to plump up body parts that have succumbed to age, said Dr. Jeffrey Hartog, whose new Liquid Gold center is next to his cosmetic-surgery clinic. “I will present it as an option to any patient having liposuction,” he said.

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  • Christine Timmerman

    They seem to have found a very peculiar niche in an increasing industry of plastic surgery. If the doctor that performed the surgery doesn’t provide the service of keeping your fat for later use for you this could be a great option and with the more and more surgeries being performed today, the option could be very popular. As long as the plastic surgeons started mentioning this service, it could prove to be very successful as long as it was only a single payment. The idea of having to pay “rent” or “interest” on the fat storage is just too weird to me.

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