As an abundant tissue in the majority of people above 40 (when the first signs of ageing appear), fat has always been an attractive material as a ‘filler’ to augment volume in various parts of our body for Plastic Surgeons. Since the beginning of the 20th century various efforts have been recorded on that purpose, mostly unsuccessfully.
In 2000 Coleman introduced a new method of fat-harvesting, based on a process (centrifusion) that isolated ‘pure’ fat-cells. This way long-term survival of the fat-cells was achieved.
This was the beginning of a new era in Plastic Surgery. Nowdays fat is considered and used as ‘biological gold’ by Plastic Surgeons.
