Why consider fat grafting in a facelift?

From the channel

I get 85% retention in the mid-face with fat grafting with a facelift. The fat transfer integrates into the fibroblasts, muscle, fat, and subdermis, and improves the quality of skin and integrity of the deep tissues. It stimulates your body to make GOOD collagen that will continue to help with a youthful appearance. #fatgrafting #fattransfer #facelift #necklift ------------------------------------

Fat grafting and volume with facelift

Faces age by losing volume as well as by sagging, so surgeons often inject the patient's own fat during a facelift to refill the cheeks, temples and folds. Part of the grafted fat does not survive, and some surgeons use injectable poly-L-lactic acid afterward to replace lost volume.

The technique, its anatomy and the papers behind it