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Facial AutoGraft Muscle Injection

The Amar Technique
FAMI is a non invasive, new restorative approach to aesthetic surgery which facilitates correction of facial volume deficiencies to provide a more youthful appearance.
"FAMI is a pan-facial systematized muscle injection that gives symmetrical volume enhancement for facial rejuvenation."

What is Facial Muscle Restructuring or FAMI?
FAMI stands for Fat Autologous Mesenchymal Integration. It is a systematized full face injection for pan-facial restoration, since we use more and more pre-adipocytes or adult stem cells we like to say that FAMI stands for Facial Autograft Muscle Injection.
FAMI is an outpatient procedure which removes fat tissues from the lower part of the body, with Liposuction called Lipobiopsy.
This fat tissue is refined by centrifugation at 2, 6 and 11 thousand rpm and injected in the vicinity or into the 30 main facial muscles and under the periosteum with 15 specific cannulaes.

Who is a good candidate for FAMI?
Nowadays many people, using diet and workout, age with a thinner face. Shrinkage of the muscles is the primary manifestation of aging.
In these patients face-lifting produces a mask look. Restoring the volume of the atrophied muscles is an obvious method for rejuvenation.
All patients with gaunt and drawn face, who are looking for rejuvenation without invasive surgery, can benefit from FAMI.
CEOs who want to be available 2 days after rejuvenation procedure, then FAMI is for them.

What is the main difference between FAMI and the other "fat tilling" techniques ?
FAMI is the only one procedure which uses specific cannulae to place the fat autograft and ADULT STEM CELLS, or Pre-adipocytes into the vascular muscle bed and under the Periosteum. FAMI restore Bone -Muscles -skin in one session! Touching up is not the rule!

How long does the graft last after FAMI?
FAMI is now the most advanced fat transfer procedure because it offers the best present solution to the very old problem of fat survival.
Fat grafting has been under development by Dr. Roger E. Amar since 1991. After more than 2500 muscle injections from 1996 to 2002 and after 9 years follow up, Dr. Amar maintains without any doubt, that FAMI gives long lasting successful and symmetrical results.

Is FAMI safe?
Fat is a natural filler advocated by thousands of doctors for more than a century.The safest grafts are the auto-grafts, which mean that the patient is grafted with his own tissue.
Over the last century, in the medical meetings, the controversy has always been on the survival of the fat, not on the safety of fat autografting. Since 2000, an ultra centrifuge has been used to destroythe large fat lobules and concentrates the lipoaspirate with ADULT STEM CELLS.
ADULT STEM CELLS are mesenchymal multi potent cells used to restore bone surfaces and muscle strength when injected under the periosteum or into the muscles.

Is Facial FAMI safer than regular plastic surgery?
Yes, much safer. There is no possible comparison between a non invasive injection technique and an open surgical technique with the risk of damaging the nerves, arteries, veins and other important structures or the face. The AMAR specific blunt instrumentation for placement is the less traumatic tool for facial rejuvenation; they are adapted to the skull.

Will the tissues move after FAMI?
As many authors demonstrated before, 2 days after the procedure, the fat graft is immediately anchored in the surrounding tissues by the new vascularization coming from the host tissue. “What you see in the OR is what you get”.

Why would I want more volume in my face?
Because FAMI can give a genuine rejuvenation without the presence of foreign bodies. Instead of tightening and shortening by excision of unsupported skin, FAMI injects the face with our own living fatty connective tissue and adult stem cells, correcting asymmetry and restoring the fullness of youth.

What areas are Treated?
Before intervention, the Doctor studies a photo of the patient around 20 to evaluate the volume of the brow, lips and chin in order to duplicate. The doctor checks the 30 muscles of facial expression and notes the atrophied muscles responsible for hollows and folds in the exam form.

If I had a BOTOX injection could FAMI be done?
Botox works by blocking impulses from the nerves to facial muscles. It is a chemodenervation that causes a paralysis of the facial muscles so they are unable to contract.
If this injection is repeated, the underlying muscles become atrophied and this region of the face ages more rapidly.
For FAMI it is better to have muscles that have not been destroyed by the botulism toxin.In some case of strong muscle contractures, BOTOX is used before the FAMI procedure to ensure a still face.

Is FAMI a dangerous procedure?
FAMI, unlike standard face-lifting, has been shown to be a very safe procedure with very few complications in the hands of doctors specifically trained in this procedure. Since there is no use of scalpel, the utilization of blunt cannula is safer than needles.

Where is FAMI performed?
As a non-invasive surgical technique, FAM] is performed under local anesthesia in outpatient facilities.

What is the recovery period?
After FAMI, the bruising is in generally insignificant or just around the injection sites and can be easily masked with coverage during initial 1-7 days. The edema lasts for 2 weeks. Most patients are performing routine duties after 2 or 3 days, and public / professional contact after 2 weeks. For movie and TV performers 2 months is necessary for going back to work!

Can the procedure be repeated?
Many patients are so excited by the results of the first procedure in lower face or upper face, they elect to have the other facial region treated in subsequent session.
One or two years after a Full Face FAMI, patients requested more shape for rejuvenation could have a new FAMI: Upper face, Lower face or Neck.

When will I notice the results?
Just after the edema period of 2 weeks, the patient and relatives notice the natural rejuvenation which will continue for up to six months.

If I lose weight or gain weight?
In general, body weight may remain the same if diet and exercise leve]s remain unchanged. The old rule that makes the face, the first area to be marked by weight loss, is no longer the case. Conversely, when patients gain weight, it inverts the ageing process effects in the face. A nomal diet is the best “FAMI face” maintenance.

What are the limitations of FAMI?
Some patients with sagging cheeks need a face-lifting for restoring the nonnal shape. They are not the best candidates for FAMI. After removal of folds and lines, these patients will benefit the most iTom FAMI, which will give a thorough rejuvenation.

Why have some people or even Doctors told me that fat grafting doesn’t work?
The public tends to keep in mind the first transient results of fat filling. The FAMI bloodless technique which restore the bone surfaces and muscle shapes produce hannonious symmetrical and long lasting results. Few people know the complexity of the FAMI procedure with a very steep learning curve. A successful result with FAMI means that your Doctor is an expert in facial modem anatomy.

 

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