Roger Amar, MD, a French plastic surgeon, claims to be able to isolate a patient’s stem cells from fat and use them to add bulk by regenerating bone structure. “After age 35, on average, women lose bone surface,” Roger Amar says. “Its millimetres, but listen carefully:

If you lose one millimetre of cheekbone, that’s the beginning of a wrinkle.” To fill a tear trough under the eye, for example, Amar injects the stem cells beneath the periosteum (the layer of connective tissue that covers bone) next to the orbital rim. Amar believes fat’s stem cells not only stimulate new bone growth but stop regenerating when they’ve done the job.

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