Brent Moelleken, M.D., F.A.C.S., with
offices in Beverly Hills and Santa Barbara, is one of Beverly Hills' premiere plastic
surgeons. He has been selected to many elite Top Surgeons and Top Doctors lists, including Top 10 Plastic Surgeons in America by Vogue Magazine.
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The LiveFill
LiveFill is a new method of augmenting wrinkled or “deflated” areas in the face. Dr. Moelleken has innovated this technique, presented it at ASPS and ASAPS meetings, among many other national and international academic formats. There has been a long-standing need for filler materials in the field of cosmetic surgery. These filler materials are used to fill in areas that hollow with age, for example lips, smile lines, or the areas below the eyes. The most popular fillers in use today are Restylane and Juvederm. There are many other fillers, such as Gortex, SAM, Restylane, Alloderm, Perlane, Fat injection, and a number of fillers based either on plastic beads or silicone. All have problems. Restylane and all hyaluronic acid (HA) products, are temporary, and then will be gone and need re-injection. Synthetic materials (Gortex, SAM) can leave three-dimensional irregularities in the skin, and can be felt through the skin. Alloderm is cadaver material; and silicone tends to run over time, causing chronic infections and disfigurement. Any permanent material such as Artecoll that does not have its own blood supply can become infected, sometimes chronically, and is prone to granuloma formation and lumpiness. It is our belief that many implanted materials can grow lumpy, especially if they are bone material based, have synthetic material in them, or are not living. Once fat is harvested and injected, it is already 80% dead. So the doctor must exaggerate the amount he uses. The survival of fat injection is also unpredictable.
Dr. Moelleken has been developing LiveFill™ for over five years to address these problems. Now, LiveFill grafts have become a large part of his practice. Once LiveFill™ has been placed, it again becomes an integral part of the body's tissue and the results are permanent. The blood supply from the body actually grows into LiveFill in a way it cannot with any other technique, including fat injection. These studies have been presented and published by Dr. Moelleken. Since the tissue comes from the patient's own body there is never rejection of one's own tissues. It is possible that minor irregularities can result from the LiveFill™ technique. If this happens, they are typically corrected under local anesthesia. Healing time is very rapid; since no over-correction is necessary, typically only a long weekend. Dr. Moelleken now frequently incorporates LiveFill™ while performing facelifts (including his trademarked 360 Facelift™) blepharoplasties, browlifts, or his signature superficial cheeklift operation.
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With plastic surgery practice locations serving Beverly Hills, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, plastic surgeon Dr. Brent Moelleken performs facelifts, neck lifts, cheeklifts, Livefill, eyelid surgery, liposculpture, abdominoplasty, breast reduction, breast lifts and augmentation, “mommy makeovers” and rhinoplasty.