Walk into Dr. Steven R. Cohenโ€™s FACES+ plastic surgery center, located in sunny San Diego, and one of the first things youโ€™ll notice is beautiful art covering every wall. Look even more closely and youโ€™ll see his scribbled signature at the bottom of every piece.

Dr. Cohen is an artist in every sense of the word โ€”ย heโ€™s a painter, an author, an inventor, and his โ€œleft brainโ€ approach to beauty, aging, and surgery techniques has made him an award-winning, internationally recognized plastic surgeon.

One of his most inventive and visually compelling procedures is his โ€œInjectable Facial Rejuvenation,โ€ a technique that has the potential to turn the current filler craze on its head.

In this procedure, instead of reaching for a box of Juvederm or Restylane on the shelf, Dr. Cohen uses the patientโ€™s own fat harvested via liposuction. Within the operating room, he filters the fat and breaks it down into three different density levels (mili, micro, nano) before re-injecting the appropriately-sized fat into different areas of the patientโ€™s face.