A few plastic surgeons claim to offer better results when they remove strips of healthy fat and replant them into areas that need augmentation. One particular surgical fat grafting procedure process, trademarked by Dr. Brent Moelleken as "LiveFill", consists of harvesting live fat and fascia, a flat band of tough tissue below the skin that covers and separates the underlying tissues. The procedure is mostly used to plump up deep facial wrinkles and folds, to fill hollow areas and to augment lips. The donor fat is harvested in very thin strips and then placed into the target areas during a minor surgical procedure; the surgeon maintains the donor fat is fully alive, unlike the fat cells used in fat injections, which he finds are approximately only 20% alive at the time of injection, according to CT scans and other medical testing.^[10] Based on a study of 120 LiveFill patients comparing that procedure to fat injections, Dr. Moelleken in one test found an average of ten to 15 percent of injected fat surviving over the long term whereas transplanting live fat via surgery resulted in a 75 percent survival rate.

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