#443: Unmasking Cosmetic Myths: Dr. Cameron Chesnut on Fillers & Botox Realities

Recovery Methods

Dr. Cameron Chesnut employs innovative recovery techniques to enhance surgical outcomes. He uses dissolvable sutures and fibrin to promote efficient healing, reducing infection risks and inflammation 1. Additionally, he integrates regenerative medicine, utilizing growth factors from the patient's own blood to steer healing processes, creating new elastin tissue and improving skin elasticity 2.

I use dissolving sutures so it stays for a while. Then it relies on the body healing it together.

--- Cameron Chesnut

These methods reflect his athlete's mindset, focusing on optimal recovery and performance readiness.

   

Fat Transfer

Chesnut advocates for fat transfer over fillers for a more natural aesthetic outcome. He highlights that fat transfer, though complex, offers a regenerative approach, using the patient's own fat to volumize and rejuvenate 3. This method addresses issues with fillers, such as inflammation and migration, by replacing them with fat, which is less likely to cause adverse reactions 4.

I'm usually removing it, and I'm replacing the importance of it with your own fat, like fat transfer, which is much more natural.

--- Cameron Chesnut

This approach encourages critical thinking and curiosity among his peers.

   

Elastin Production

Advancements in regenerative medicine focus on enhancing elastin production to improve skin elasticity. Chesnut explains that lasers and bio-stimulators can create controlled injuries that promote elastin and collagen production, crucial for youthful skin 5. He emphasizes the importance of elastin, a delicate component that provides skin elasticity, which is often overlooked in favor of collagen 6.

The real secret is if we can rejuvenate and build elastin in the skin and put fat back in the fat pads.

--- Cameron Chesnut

These techniques aim to naturally reverse aging signs rather than just masking them.