Dr. David Sparks

It still, I feel, is unlikely to match or surpass.

Definitely can't see it surpassing your own existing fat when you think about the way we conventionally do things.

So I think for certain patients, it's probably got a role and that would be patients that are either very young patients or patients that are very thin.

They don't have a lot of donor fat and they need fat graft for a variety of reasons.

From a cosmetic point of view, I think people would be using a product like this because they don't want to go through liposuction.

They just want the filler effect without any liposuction occurring to get that.

I certainly haven't seen any patients while I've been consulting in Queensland who have requested zombie filler per se.

Certainly patients will come in wanting fat graft and that sort of thing.

I've recently spent a bit of time in North America and Vancouver, gone to Beverly Hills and a variety of other places.

And I can tell you that I think there's probably a different kind of

perspective, I guess, over here that in some of these locations, you can acquire obviously this FDA-approved product.

And I think that probably patients who are on GLP-1 inhibitors are likely to be that group where, yes, they have less fat.

But when we're talking about volume of fat, patients that have, they call this the ozempic face or whatever,

They get hollowing in certain regions, particularly below the malar region, kind of a gaunt-looking face, and those medications cause particular types of atrophy of the fat in the face, and it's like a characteristic feature that you see.

So...

The amount of fat that you actually need to address some of these patients' contour changes and that sort of thing, they would have to be extremely lean for there not to be enough autologous fat on their body to harvest.

So it's a product, right?

It's a product that's being sold and it's attractive for reasons like the fact that, yeah, you can avoid the donor site-related problems.

Whether or not it actually the fat that you put in from the cadaver survives as well as the fat from your own belly or legs or, you know, wherever, jury's out on that.

The process for this kind of thing is that anybody who's donating their tissue, there's a legal framework, there's legal acts in place to protect cadavers or patients who are donating their tissue.