Plastic Surgeon Unveils “Fat Bank”

Thursday, 15 September 2011 | by Pat's Picks

This a bank you don’t want to make a withdrawal from very often. The Orlando Sentinel says a Florida plastic surgeon is “giving new meaning to the phrase recycle, repurpose, reuse” with the unveiling of something called a fat bank. Designed to store fat liposuctioned out of patients for future use, it’ll cost you $900 the first year and $200 a year after that, to store a coffee cup worth of fat. The patented process “drains, cleans and then freezes the fat. Some skeptics, however, question whether frozen fat will act the same way when reconstituted: “No good data exists to substantiate the fact that frozen fat does well or is metabolically viable.”