4:30pm – 6:30pm
2-Hour Courses
Timothy Marten, MD
tmarten@martenclinic.com
Level: Comprehensive Organization: Didactic
This course will be a clinically oriented guide to planning and performing simultaneous facelift and fat injections. The course will include video of facial fat injections and a question-and-answer period. (Please note: The course will focus on fat grafting and facelift will not be specifically discussed.)
Desired outcomes:
- Review the relevance of the facial atrophy and the importance of restoration of lost facial volume in the modern facelift procedure
- Compare the strengths and weaknesses of the commonly advocated procedures used to add volume to the face
- Discuss pre-operative analysis of the facelift patient and the development of an appropriate surgical plan
- Discuss primary fat grafting vs. simultaneous facelift and fat grafting and review the indications and best applications for each
- Review controversies in harvesting and processing of fat for injection
- Present fat injection technique
- Discuss optimal sequencing facelift and fat injection procedures
- Review anesthesia considerations for facelift and fat injection procedures
- Discuss patient safety issues in facelift and fat injection procedures
- Discuss peri-operative care of the patient undergoing simultaneous facelift and fat injections
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