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STEM CELLS
(Prof. Michele Zocchi)

Since the moment of its conception lipoplasty has always been considered a specialized branch of plastic surgery which takes care of the remodelling of body adipose tissue.
Classic liposuction or ultrasonic lipoplasty, constituting the most advanced technical evolution has in fact as its main objective, the reduction of volumes through the taking away of excess adipose tissue.

Lipofilling and lipo-trasplant on the other hand allow for the addition of adipose cells to those anatomic areas where support volumes are naturally lacking and secondly as in the ageing process.
For many years then, the plastic surgeon found himself confronted with large quantities of adipose tissue, underestimating its enormous intrinsic potential.

The most advanced research has been able to demonstrate that adipose tissue presents the same potentiality of growth as that of stem mesenchymal multi powerful bone marrow cells. But when taking away bone marrow the results are more traumatic and limitative, while adipose tissue can represent an inexhaustible source of easy and immediately available mesenchymal cells for clinical applications in all those areas of medicine that care for the regeneration of autologous tissues.

In fact from a modest quantity of adipose cells one can obtain, through rigorous isolation and culture techniques, large quantities of multi powerful stem cells which can eventually be differentiated according to needs ( adipose, cartilaginous, bone, endothelial, muscular, hepathic tissue ...).

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Prof. Michele Zocchi
Plastic surgeon in Italy Torino Milano Roma Rimini