Its fairly widely known that stem cells can mean life-saving treatments for deadly diseases.
Now, they are being used in the fight against wrinkles and more and more South Floridians are turning to the stem cell makeover.
Donna Pritchit is one of them. The 64-year-old headed into the operating room recently, wanting to turn back the hands of time without it being totally obvious.
I dont want someone to stop and go by and say Oh, she had a facelift. I want to have someone say Donna went on vacation she must be having a great life, she said before the $5,000 procedure began.
Dr. Sharon McQuillan at the Ageless Institute in Aventura marked the areas where she would take fat out of Pritchits belly and place it back into her face.
The retired teacher also hoped it would be her last step in getting rid of embarrassing acne scars.
I never wanted to go out in daylight and have anyone see me, she said.
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The outpatient procedure began with traditional liposuction, and then McQuillan and her team processed that fat and concentrated the stem cells so they could be injected into Pritchits wrinkles and in places where she has lost fullness.
Well, stem cells in general are the cells in your body that regenerate tissue and heal tissue, and they make the skin look beautiful and younger, McQuillan explained. And they also the fat to remain alive so that the volume that we create stays, which has been a problem with fat transfer in the past.
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