Dr. David Sparks

I think if you were asking people before they donated their bodies whether or not they were happy for their fat to be used as a filler, I think that that would be obviously something that's kind of important and part of an informed consent process when you're donating your tissue.

I mean, it sensationalizes what's actually being used, right?

So zombies being dead people, cadaveric tissue is what we use as a clinical term to describe people that have passed away and generously given their tissue for use in the medical field or in another capacity, say for anatomy education at universities and things like that.

So

It is, by essence, effectively a cadaveric fat, and it's gone through a processing sequence.

The vast majority of the DNA has been removed from that cellular material, and it's essentially like a structural graft, effectively, from another donor.

It's a new product, right?

And I wouldn't say that people are actively going for this filler over other fillers.

It is FDA approved.

I'm not sure if it's completely approved in all jurisdictions in the US, but certainly in certain locations it is.

And it's being used, as you say, as a filler alternative.

I mean, the advantages that something like this would have over, say, existing fillers would be that it's more like your own fat than a filler would be.

It's probably got a more permanent result than hyaluronic acid, which is a conventional filler that we use in plastic surgery.

But it's really early.

So it's super early in terms of clinical evidence base.

And I suspect that a product like this, although...

might seem attractive because there's no donor site.

You're not removing it from a living person.

You're not taking it from the person and then putting it elsewhere.

So there's no procedure to harvest it.