DR LEWIS OBI FEATURED AT NEW YORK ADVANCED SYMPOSIUM FOR FAT DERIVED STEM CELL FAT CLINICAL APPLICATIONS

Dr. Lewis Obi was one of the keynote speakers at Palomars Advanced body sculpturing symposium in New York this past weekend. Palomar Medical Technology Inc. is the premier world leader in the development and production of medical lasers used by plastic surgeons. At the symposium, Dr. Lewis Obi shared his 30 months of experience with Slim Lipo (LifeSculpt) system to an international audience. Dr. Obi was one of the first plastic surgeons in the world to integrate this advanced technology into his practice.

In January, Dr. Lewis Obi was the first plastic surgeon in the United States to integrate Palomar’s Adivive™ FDA approved Fat Processing Unit into his practice. Three of the major clinical researchers and developers of fat-derived stem cell fat are Dr. He Young Lee of South Korea, Dr. Katora Hoshimura of Tokyo, and Dr. Mark Berman of Santa Monia. Since last year, Dr. Lewis Obi has worked closely with these pioneering plastic surgeons and has achieved tremendous success with his patients in the area of stem cell fat grafting. He has treated 25 patients in more than 40 areas including the face, breast and hands. The Adivive Fat Processing Unit is the only totally enclosed system which harvests fat, filters and centrifuges fat and finally delivers the stem cell concentrated aspirate into syringes that then injects into the target areas. The only major competitor of Adivive is the complex Cytori system which is not yet FDA approved and therefore unavailable in the United States. Cytori’s only domestic unit is PureGraft™ which is a very simple system of IV tubing that cleans the lipoaspirate without the complex features of Adivive i.e. compacting, filtering and condensing fat in a totally enclosed unit. Dr. Mark Berman, who shared the podium with Dr. Lewis Obi this past weekend, has commented that “PureGraft is not too different from what we all have been doing with fat for decades. The non FDA approved complex Cytori system is not bad but the cost factor is prohibitive for our domestic patients. Therefore Adivive (Lipokit) is the best and only cost efficient system in the area of stem cell fat."