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Injectables that can last for two years, can you believe it?

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

Are you looking for sublte results over time?  Are you afraid that your friends might notice that you have had facial plastic surgery? Do you want to refreshen your appearance by undergoing a procedure that provides natural looking results with no downtime required?  If so, as a Charlotte facial plastic surgeon, I believe Sculptra, poly-L-lactic acid,  might be the treatment for you!  Sculptra visibly reduces your age over time.

Charlotte Sculptra 300x26 Injectables that can last for two years, can you believe it?

Sculptra is poly-l-lactic acid that stimulates your body to produce collagen

Sculptra requires 1-3 treatments over the course of a few months.  These injections of poly-L-lactic acid provide you with natural looking results by stimulating your body’s natural ability to produce collagen.  Collagen is the main structural protein found in our connective tissue, helping give tissues like our muscles and skin their ability to hold shape and maintain integrity. Collagen is also responsible for the firm, almost plump look of healthy, youthful skin. As age encroaches, collagen seems to jump ship, abandoning the face and leading to wrinkles and thinner skin.  Popular brands and many marketing tactics promote topical creams for being able to replace collagen or help firm skin; however, that is false.  Collagen production happens deep within the skin’s many layers. In order to boost collagen levels to see reults, you must get further than skin deep.   Sculptra helps correct youthful facial shape and deep facial wrinkles and folds that appear with aging by replacing lost collagen. The main ingredient Sulptra is a biocompatible, biodegradable synthetic material that has been used by physicians for decades.

I offer Sculptra in my Charlotte office and inject the product deep and directly into the fat pockets of the face that has lost volume.  Restoring volume in the exact location where it was lost results in natural results.  Sculptra helps the body restore lost collagen gradually, lifting and plumping the skin from the bottom to the surface.  Your face regains its fullness and loses its wrinkles over time, with the results lasting up to two years (which is longer than the various other fillers).

 

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What is Sculptra Aesthetic and How is it Different From Injectable Fillers of the Face?

Monday, February 13th, 2012

The growth of injectable facial fillers has been explosive over the past ten years.  I love the products and their outcomes, as they require no downtime and minimal pain.  Facial injectable fillers are ideal for immediately correcting facial volume loss and filling wrinkles in the face.  These products are best for a patient seeking an immediate boost.  They are also completely reversible, and are made up of naturally occurring products, such as hyaluranic acid, which are already in your body.  At our Carolina Facial Plastic Surgery Center offices in Charlotte and Columbia, we use Restylane, Perlane, and Juvederm as our facial fillers of choice.  They are injected into the face to immediately fill or volumize areas of concern.

Sculptra Aesthetic is an injectable product used in the face to ultimately increase facial volume, but it is NOT a facial filler.  Sculptra Aesthetic, poly-l-lactic acid, is an injectable substance that stimulates your own body to produce new collagen.  This new collagen will SLOWLY add new volume to the face.  In young faces with good volume and elasticity, it may take only one treatment to give that added youthful “pop” to the face.  In faces requiring more volume, it can take up to four injection sessions to get the desired amount of new collagen. Each session is spaced out over approximately three weeks, and since the result is dependent on the body producing NEW collagen, it will take about three months for the new collagen to become noticeable.  The advantage of creating new collagen is that the effects of Sculptra last much longer, 2-4 years, as opposed to other filler products which last 3-12 months.

In previous blogs, I have discussed my 3D facial topography theory that I use to analyze facial structure.  I believe a face with the right amount of volume will reflect light and have smooth transitions from one area of the face to the next.  In patients with volume loss, the smoothness is lost and the wrinkles create multiple shadows on the face.  The shadows make the face appear tired and aged.  I inject Sculptra into the natural fat pockets of the face to add volume to the actual area of the face that has lost the volume.  This can subtly change the entire shape of the face and smooth the transitions to add a youthful and beautiful appearance to the face.

Dr. Jonathan Kulbersh is the founder of Carolina Facial Plastic Surgery.  He is a facial plastic surgery specialist, and has offices in Charlotte, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina.

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