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Regenerative medicine leads to new ways of treatment for many diseases, and this also spans to the procedures in the field of aesthetics where the focus is on the recovery of the youth’s features. Improvements and new technology in fat grafting, regenerative cells procurement, growth factors, and biological scaffolds can contribute to achieve these goals. Until the present time, the real indications of these techniques, fat grafting apart, are limited because we know their potential but restricted nowadays to clinical trials. Unluckily, technology now available at the point of care is less powerful than what the advertisements tell the patients. So we should be realistic when advising the patients about what can be achieved with a treatment based on regenerative medicine.
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Fontdevila, J., Pinto, H. (2019). General Conclusions: The Current Status of the Regenerative Medicine in the Aesthetics Applications. In: Pinto, H., Fontdevila, J. (eds) Regenerative Medicine Procedures for Aesthetic Physicians. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15458-5_22
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