The injections of fat taken from the abdominal area help plastic surgeons restore the faces of patients affected by cancer treatment.

Quite often, patients who have faced malignant neoplasms of the face area remain disfigured after surgery for cancer treatment. And now plastic surgeons have developed a new technique that allows these defects to be corrected by injecting fat taken from the abdomen.

First of all, it is addressed to those who injured the face as a result of surgical operations to remove tumors of the head or neck, or during irradiation. For decades, plastic surgeons have successfully used a similar kind of fat injection from the abdominal area for reconstructive operations in the chest that are required after a mastectomy.

And now the same treatment has shown its effectiveness in restoring sensitive face surfaces. This is especially important if one considers that the number of cases of head and neck tumors is constantly growing.

In the last 10 years, in a number of Western countries, the number of diagnoses has increased by 30%.

Scientists attribute this growth in part to human papillomavirus, rapidly spreading due to unprotected sex. Some strains of HPV cause tumors in the mouth and in the throat. However, the most common cause is still smoking, which accounts for 65% of all these tumors.

Reconstructive plastic surgery requires the patient several weeks of hospitalization.

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