• Fat Transfer: The best generic term that encompasses all procedures used to move fat by any technique from one area to another
• Fat Grafting: The transfer of relatively intact structural units of fat tissue from one body area to another. While unattached to their original blood supply, such grafts retain much of their normal architecture (cellular relationships, blood vessels, nerves, surrounding connective tissue, etc). True fat grafts are not unlike skin grafts, where rapid and permanent incorporation into the recipient site is the usual outcome.
• Fat Injection: The transfer of fat cells and/or disrupted fat globules obtained using liposuction by withdrawal into a syringe and injection through a cannula (a sort of blunt needle). Fat injection shares more in common with a blood transfusion than a skin graft.
• Autologous Fat Transplantation: A more technical but accurate way of saying "fat injection"
• Microlipoinjection: Another term for "fat injection"
• Lid to Lid Fat Transfer: Movement of orbital fat out of one eyelid and into another
• Fat Repositioning: The transfer of a pedicle (or flap) of intact fat still attached to its original blood supply.
