With our current technology, we can harvest fat and actually separate the stem cells. Dr. Minoo Singh says "Not only will this be the next major plateau in cosmetic surgery, this is likely to represent the next major breakthrough in medicine in general,"
While progress with stem cells is in the early stages, cosmetic surgeons will be one of the principal players in this new segment of medicine.
In cosmetic surgery, a patient's fat can be fortified with stem cells and used for procedures to rejuvenate the face, eyelids, hands, breast augmentation, buttock augmentation and more. We have been doing liposuction already for the last 10 years, & we have developed best method of autologous stem cell harvesting from the patients owned fat tissue obtained by liposuction. We have started doing many stem cell procedures.

Embryonic stem cells vs. fat stem cells

Up until recently the media has largely focused on the more controversial embryonic stem cells. These are stem cells derived from embryos. The potential uses of these cells to cure and treat diseases remain vast, but the controversial source of the cells poses ethical questions which have delayed medical progress.
During the past decade, researchers have discovered that stem cells can also be extracted from your own fat tissue. These adult stem cells have the same potential as embryonic stem cells, except for the ability to differentiate into sperm or ova. Unlike embryonal stem cells, stem cells extracted from your own fat are abundant, easily available, and pose no ethical or political controversy.

It turns out that your fat has somewhere in the neighborhood of 500,000 stem cells per cubic centimeter of fat. So from 25 cubic centimeters of fat, we can get anywhere from 10 to 30 million cells or more in a single isolation process. So instead of having to harvest the cells and culture them out for several days, within an hour and a half, we can give somebody back 20 to 30 million cells from one 25 cubic centimeter sample of their own fat. Drt
<< A good plasticSo in plastic surgery, what’s happened is these cells have been isolated from fat and technically the cells aren’t isolated as stem cells or isolated. It’s what we call stromal vascular fraction. What that means is this is when you take the fat and then you separate out the fat from the other cells, what you are left is a soup that we call stromal vascular fraction. That’s loaded with stem cells, white blood cells, some growth factors and endothelial cells.
Those cells then are that soup or stromal vascular fraction, and those cells can be added back to harvested fat to sort of fortify the fat cells and then when you take those and put them back in the body, you get better retention rates of the grafted fat.
There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the fat cells themselves don’t even survive that well because of the lack of oxygen. When you graft it back into the body, the fat cells, they largely die. But cell entry to the fat actually is a signal that turns on the stem cells that it causes the stem cells to then replace the fat cells as well as create neovascularization, if you will, but grow new blood supply.
So it’s a pretty remarkable process. It’s very dynamic.
"As we age we lose fat and volume in the face, so replacing that volume with stem cells won't only plump the face up but it will actually rejuvenate, neovascularise and rebuild new collagen, so the skin will be tighter and firmer. It can even remove age spots and sun damage,"
And the truth is while the stem cell is very important, you couldn’t do a stem cell facelift without fat, so it’s technically, in the old days, we just call it fat grafting. Now, we enrich or impregnate this fat tissue with harvested stem cells from the patient’s own fat & implant it at the desired place on the face.
It might improve the quality of the skin, but they are not going to grow new fat cells because there is significant damage going on. So they need to see that cell injury in order to get turned on. That’s just the nature of the stem cells. Stem cell is a progenitor cell. It reacts to the cell injury, inflammation or degeneration. So those are the things that would going to turn on the cell and get it to activate.
Well, I continue to do a lot of facial rejuvenation, and so there is no doubt, the best way to rejuvenate somebody’s face is by treating them three dimensionally. My claim to technique was not being the first doctor to do fat grafting, but I got up one day and said, “Hey, we misdiagnosed aging. Aging is not just gravity pull in the face down. It’s a loss of volume & slowing down of natural regenerative process also.” So, as you lose that volume and that volume loss is predominately due to fat that metabolizes or dies over time, the skin looks like it’s sagging, so you need to put that volume & regeneration back. But the reality is it is a stem cell fat graft, and you need the fat so that the stem cells can signal and turn on and do what they are going to do.
Most people would be surprised to hear that the secret to a youthful face may well be hiding in the extra pounds they are working so hard to lose. So indeed for me the stem cell fat transfer or Stem Cell Enhanced Face Lift, is now the primary tool for rejuvenating face and doing a facelift.

But using your own (autologous) stem cells to restore a more youthful appearance is available now, from experienced cosmetic surgeon at Vanity in India. There is no need to travel to U.S.A., China, Korea, or Europe to get stem cell enhanced facial rejuvenation or breast augmentation. These therapies do not fall under the FDA’s or IDA’s ‘drug therapy’ classification and are therefore not regulated as such because: 1) the injections are performed in the same operative session as the liposuction procedure to remove the fat; 2) the stem cells have been only minimally manipulated; and 3) the stem cell enhanced fat transfer does not alter the original relevant biologic function of the stem cell. Thus, when the cosmetic enhancement is performed in the same operative session, it is not regulated by ‘drug therapy’ guidelines..

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