Your Hands Can Look Younger
With Rejuvenation by Fat Transfer

Aging causes several changes over the back of the hands, including wrinkles and sags, a blue coloring, and more apparent veins and tendons. In this procedure, the physician simply harvests your own body fat from other areas of the body, and injects this fat into the back of the hand tightening the skin for a more pleasant appearance.

Fat has the highest concentration of adult stem cells of any tissue in the body. Placing fat full of stem cells under the skin of an aging hand, where there is usually little fat, can not only can reverse the damage to the skin caused by aging and sun exposure, but also creates long-lasting skin rejuvenation.

As we age the hand fullness disappears allowing the veins to become prominent and their blue color deepens. The tendons as well as other anatomic details in the back of the hand become more visible through the thinning skin. In addition the skin looses elasticity and wrinkling becomes more prevalent. The spaces between the bones of the hand deepen, especially between the thumb and the index finger, and the loss of fullness of the hand and fingers make the joints appear enlarged and arthritic. This wasting process can be complicated by loss of muscle volume with aging or disease.

How Fat Rejuvenates an Aging Hand

Fat injected in a specific structured fashion to place hundreds of tiny drops of fat cells over the dorsal aspect of hands creates a system of support and stretches the skin. The presence of thin layers of fat cells will not only decrease the blue color of the dorsal hand veins and the white color of the extensor tendons but will also soften the shape of veins and tendons. The thickening of the aging skin and fullness of the underlying subcutaneous tissue creates a long-lasting, youthful-appearing hand.

The fat will be harvested from other areas of your body, such as love handles, abdomen, hips and thighs using our minimally invasive Body-Jet water assisted procedure. This is your body fat and will not be rejected or cause any complications for your system.