Save the fats in 'fat bank' for Savings Plastic Surgery

Seminole County, Florida, plastic surgeon to open 'fat bank' which allows patients to store their own body fat that could later be used for plastic surgery. In other words, one could store body fat for saving plastic surgery.

Dr. Jeffrey Hartog of Seminole County, Florida, has developed a process that removes fat from patients with sedok liposuction or fat and then store it in a super deep freeze.

This is a potentially profitable idea and he gave the name of the facility as Liquid Gold lipid bank.

According to him, the fat will be stored frozen for life of patients who would then be used in the treatment of potential future plastic surgery, where fat is needed as a filler.

"Banking is a fat new level procedures. We put patients to sleep. Take the fat. Get as much fat we need to be injected later (plastic surgery)," explained Dr. Jeffrey Hartog, as reported by Dailymail, Thursday (10/13/2011).

Dr. Hartog believes that many patients would be interested in this new service. He said the service will be present and offered to patients undergoing liposuction procedure.

Fatty 'harvested' from patients with liposuction before being dried and cleaned. Protectan then added to the fat before it is inserted into the slow-freeze with temperatures that will be gradually lowered to minus 192 C.

Dr. Hartog charge each year to save fat. To 250 cm ^ 3 fat with deep freeze storage charge of U.S. $ 900 (about USD 8 million) in the first year and then in subsequent years will be charged U.S. $ 200 (about USD 1.78 million).

But the new service is quite drawn criticism from some surgeons. According to them, the freezing of human fat is not supported by existing research.

"There is no good data exist to support the fact that frozen fat is not good or metabolic viable," said Dr. Stephen Baker, professor of plastic surgery at Georgetown University.

In addition to Dr. Baker, there is also Dr. Daniel Del Vecchio, of Massachusetts General Hospita. According to him, the data show that animal fats can not stand frozen like fresh fat.