SCULPTRA
The Collagen Stimulator
Sculptra is a synthetic filler made of polylactic acid which stimulates collagen regrowth for contouring, shaping, and volume restoration.
Special Features
- Long lasting volume restoration with staged sessions
- Easier than fat injection
- Indirect lifting as compared to the direct lifting of facelifts
- More contouring than botox
- non-surgical compared to implants
Benefits
- Enhanced chin
- Smoother temples
- Plumper and voluminous mid-face
- More heart shaped looking face
- More sculpted cheek definition
- Reduced nasolabial prominence
- Lifted early jowls
- More fullness of the chin
- Smoother neck lines
- Plumper hands
- Fuller buttocks
- Improved body contouring
- Improved breast contouring
- Improved liposuction defects
- More hydrated, plumber, and even-toned skin
Treatable Conditions
- Sunken temples
- Cheeks Hollowed
- Hollow eyes
- Mild to moderate sunken or hollow face
- Flat looking face
- Mid-face sagging
- Prominent nasolabial folds
- Early jowls
- Receding chin
- Neck lines
- Hands
- Buttocks
- Body contouring
- Liposuction defects
- Skin quality improvements
Frequent Ask Question
Following local anesthesia, fillers are injected slowly and retrograde in low pressure settings to slowly, incrementally, and gradually restore the lost volume of the targeted skin sites.
Specific areas of facial collagen or fat loss are addressed with serial sessions monthly injections. The treatments are sized to your dimensions and customized to your specific facial needs.
Generally, several sessions are required.
The treatment takes about one hour in an outpatient clinic setting.
Local anesthesia is used.
The results will be seen gradually in weeks. After the swelling subsides with few days, the results will look more and more natural.
Results last years. Duration of effect is similar regardless of sessions of treatments, but the magnitude of change will be determined by the number of sessions.
Additional maintenance is required.
Healthy eating and exercise are helpful to enhance results.
Further treatment may be recommended for further results.
Recovery lasts one weekend, with most people returning to work and activities thereafter.
Temporary swelling, soreness, and mild bruising are expected.
Prescription pain medications are generally not needed.
After the treatment:
Message to the areas three times a day for three days to improve evenness.
Ice pack to the areas for the first two days to reduce swelling
Heat pads to the areas for the subsequent two days to expedite the resolution of any bruising.
