Menopause is the process by which a woman’s period stops and hormone levels drop, generally affecting women between the ages of 45 and 55. Unfortunately, the fast hormonal changes that occur when our ovaries go dormant can have a less welcome effect on your appearance. The extra pounds DON’T slip off so easily, your skin feels drier, and your face looks looser. in a fairly short time, our breasts, cheeks, and other areas begin to sag as collagen is rapidly depleted. Menopause can physically alter the body in several ways, which is why many women consider aesthetic procedures when they reach menopause.

The physical symptoms of menopause can make many women self-conscious and dissatisfied with their bodies, in some cases, a “menopause makeover” can restore women’s self-confidence. A menopausal makeover consists of a series of highly customizable procedures, allowing women to discuss a personalized treatment plan with their plastic surgeon to provide the most natural result. Dr. Rozina Ali is a proponent of ongoing self-improvement and believes that a well-considered aesthetic surgery can sometimes be used to redirect life. As a highly qualified aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon in London, her philosophy of beauty advocates that feeling content and confident in your skin is the ultimate luxury. To help women everywhere meet menopause well-prepared, Dr. Ali provided us with some valuable and practical guidelines on how every woman can choose some aesthetic procedures as part of their menopause makeover.

Hormonal Haemorrhage

As women approach middle age, estrogen levels begin to fluctuate and then rapidly and catastrophically decline. the peri-menopausal phase can last up to a decade. During this time, physical and emotional symptoms appear and periods are no longer predictable. During menopause, a woman’s ovaries stop producing eggs and produce fewer female hormones. Menopause symptoms occur because of the hormonal changes a woman experiences. As hormone levels begin to stabilize and estrogen levels remain consistently low, some uncomfortable symptoms will decrease and many will disappear altogether. Understanding these symptoms will help you choose the right treatment options as you navigate the changes that menopause brings.

Natural hormonal changes mean you may experience menopause symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, and mood swings, but you shouldn’t fatalistically accept that metabolic changes will also make themselves felt, meaning you’ll notice a physical change. Shifting weight from your hips to your mid-abdomen, drier skin, decreased muscle tone, hot flashes, and hair loss, changes how you feel, how you think, and the actual shape of your body. Dr. Rozina Ali believes that aesthetics is a profound form of healing that incorporates psychology, skill, and surgery to help people achieve their full aesthetic potential and often their happiest and most fulfilled selves. By resorting to aesthetic procedures, performed by a highly qualified plastic surgeon, you will be able to improve certain changes produced by menopause and you will be able to feel good in your skin again!

The cure is “fat”!

During menopause, the distribution of body fat can change, more precisely, most of the fat will be deposited around the waist, abdomen, hips, and thighs, which will give you a reason to worry. Also, some areas will suffer such as the breasts, face, or scalp, but what would you say if you could correct all these changes using your body fat through fat transfer?

Fat transfer also known as fat grafting, autologous fat transfer, lipofilling, or stem cell therapy is the ultimate in tissue regeneration, it is the definition of tissue recycling. Fat is removed from areas of unwanted or excess body fat. (abdomen, flanks, thighs, knees, back, etc) and transplanted to areas that would benefit from the stem cell-rich media of adult human fat tissue for rejuvenation, regeneration, or volume enhancement. Areas such as the breast, face, scalp, and scarred areas can all benefit. Dr. Rozina Ali is an accredited expert in the field, helping her patients not only extract fat tissue healthily and correctly but also use it where there is an opportunity to enhance their natural beauty and/or function.

Fat transfer to breasts

A natural aging process in menopausal women is that our breasts involute (ductal breast tissue softens and shrinks, the breasts become filled with fat, become soft, droopy, less pert, and bigger. The powerful effects of gravity mean they lose their previous firmness and full shape. Hormonal changes also cause the skin to lose moisture, thickness, and elasticity. This has a stretching and loosening effect on the breasts.

The volume effect can be corrected by the fat transfer to the breasts. During a fat transfer breast augmentation, a process similar, but not the same as liposuction is used to ‘harvest’ live fat cells from areas of excess. These are then washed and prepared so that purified fat cells can be injected into the subcutaneous areas of your breasts, increasing the cup size by 1-2 cup sizes and focusing on specific areas of deficit (upper pole, cleavage, etc).

Dr. Rozina Ali is highly qualified in lipofilling to enhance breast size and shape, due to her extensive reconstructive and aesthetic experience and achieves consistently good outcomes in fat transfer surgery, which will enhance not only your breasts but hopefully also your self-image and self-confidence.

Liposuction

One of the areas most prone to fat accumulation during menopause is the abdomen. Liposuction techniques are used during a fat transfer to obtain natural fat cells. The abdomen is a great place to do this because most people have excess fat here. So, by adding liposuction techniques, you can optimize your results, removing stubborn fat cells and helping you achieve a sculpted abdomen. After liposuction is performed to remove the fat cells, they can be processed and purified, ensuring that only live, usable fat cells remain. These fat cells can then be placed in the breasts for natural breast augmentation. Your fat cells can even be used to smooth facial lines and soften the look of aging hands.

Liposuction from the back and thighs, as well as other body parts, are popular treatments, Dr. Rozina Ali ensures each client receives a 360 wraparound service and advice, to make the best-informed choices and achieve internationally-awarded results. Fat transfer can be used in intimate areas to fortify thinning atrophic tissues and mitigate against diseases such as lichen sclerosis of the vulva.

Hair thinning

Menopausal hair thinning and loss occur due to the effects of having more androgens in your body, which causes hair to grow slower and weaker and hair follicles to shrink. Because perimenopause can last for years, this hormonal hair loss often occurs gradually. Thanks to advanced technology, you can now use your fat, enriched with stem cells, to treat problematic areas of your body. There are a thousand times more stem cells and growth factors in fat than in plasma, therefore a professional surgeon can use these regenerative cells to repair and stimulate renewed scalp tissue through Kerastem cell therapy. Fat grafting gives long-lasting results, especially in the case of autologous transfer to the scalp. Less movement in the scalp area ensures the survival of the fat even after several years.

Rozina Ali is an experienced fat transfer practitioner, performing various procedures in this field, and is one of the very few plastic surgeons offering Kerastem Hair Therapy in London.
The changes produced by peri-menopausal fluctuations and menopause can be life-changing and discouraging for many women, but you should know that there is a solution and an alternative for all of these. Each change can be corrected with the help of various aesthetic procedures performed by a professional plastic surgeon. As one of the best female plastic surgeons in the UK, Dr. Rozina Ali has the necessary experience to help you achieve the best results. Book a consultation right now and achieve the transformation you want.