Facial Fat Grafting Cannulas: Sizes, Tips and Uses

Facial fat grafting relies on small, precise cannulas: fine harvesters to collect small fat parcels and blunt micro cannulas to place them in thin layers. This guide covers the sizes and tip types used for the face. You can also match sizes to products with our cannula selector tool.

Harvesting Fat for the Face

Fat for facial grafting is harvested from the abdomen, flanks or inner thighs with 2–3 mm multi-port harvesters that produce small parcels suitable for fine injection. The Fournier pattern three-port harvester (available from 1.5 mm), Carraway harvester and spiral three-port harvester are common choices. Fine infiltration cannulas such as the micro infiltration cannula prepare the donor site.

Injection Micro Cannulas

Facial injection uses blunt micro cannulas of about 0.9–2 mm, 5–10 cm long, attached to 1 ml syringes with Luer lock hubs. Blunt tips move through tissue with less trauma than needles. Typical choices by area:

• Tear trough and under-eye: the finest cannulas, around 1 mm, placed deep and in very small amounts. See the compact blunt-tip injector.
• Lips and nasolabial folds: 1–1.5 mm blunt injectors such as the round blunt-tip injector cannula.
• Cheeks, temples and jawline: 1.5–2 mm, where slightly larger volumes are placed. The spoon-tip micro injection cannula helps direct placement.

Facial Cannula Size Summary

For gauge equivalents and more sizes, see our liposuction cannula size chart. For body procedures, read our guides to BBL cannulas and breast fat grafting cannulas.

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This article is a purchasing reference for medical professionals, not clinical advice.