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Melissa Davey

A dead person’s fat pumped into your body? Why the ‘zombie filler’ trend has some experts spooked | Antiviral

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Some cosmetic and plastic surgeons in the US are using donor adipose (fat) tissue from dead bodies in filler products Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images

With people getting everything from salmon sperm to plasma injected into their faces in the name of beauty, it is difficult to be surprised when new, even seemingly extreme methods to achieve youthfulness are promoted.

But Dr David Sparks, a specialist plastic surgeon based in Queensland, was alarmed when he heard patients were asking about cadaver fillers, a trend being promoted on social media as “zombie filler”.

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