Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.]
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A comprehensive review of the history of free fat transplantation reveals that since 1893 when Neuber used small pearls of fat taken from the arm to fill out depressed facial scars after trauma and underlying bone loss, free fat graft has been used with success in facial surgery, brain and nervous system surgery, various orthopedic uses, general surgery, craniofacial surgery, and cosmetic surgery. ⋯ The hypothesis that applied fat grafts are real grafts was demonstrated. Not only are the grafts real, they are able to live and persist with the patients, growing if the patient gained weight over the gluteus area, and not losing circumference when reducing weight.