Q-Med, maker of Restylane and Perlane, recently announced their new line of skincare products at the World Congress for Anti-Aging Medicine. The new products are made using the same patented NASHA technology used in Restylane injectable filler, giving the creams a pleasing consistency while preserving moisture and adding lustre to the skin. Q-Med explains the […]
Sculptra Aesthetic is more effective than Cosmoplast human-derived collagen and lasts as long as 25 months, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 233 patients were treated randomly with Cosmoplast or Sculptra Aesthetic at 3-week intervals. Injections were performed to reduce the appearance of the nasolabial folds – […]
If you’ve never tried a wrinkle filler or perhaps never even tried a Botox injection, and you want to erase those lines and folds, then Prevelle Silk is a good place to start. Here’s why: Results are Short Term Like many injectable products, Prevelle Silk is made with hyaluronic acid. Except with Prevelle you get […]
By coincidence last week, as we posted about wrinkle fillers with lidocaine, Allergan was announcing FDA clearance for the new RHA Fillers Ultra XC. The company is citing results from their clinical trial in which 93 percent of patients reported reduced pain with the new formulation. They are now marketing RHA Fillers XC as a […]
If you’ve hesitated to undergo injectable treatments because you’re worried about needles and discomfort, you are not alone. Products like Restylane and RHA can effectively restore facial volume, reshape lips and correct wrinkles. But the looming question for many people is, are these treatments comfortable? Fortunately the answer is yes, thanks to local anesthetics that […]
There are many opinions being expressed about this so-called “Botax” but there’s one problem: patients aren’t voicing their own position – and they would be the ones paying most of it. As Dr. Steven Teitelbaum told the New York Times this week, “[cosmetic surgery patients] are a disorganized group that has no one of its […]
The recent FDA approval of Sculptra for cosmetic use has spawned a renewed interest of the drug in the cosmetic surgery industry and in the media. The Today Show recently featured Sculptra injectable wrinkle filler on a segment of “Today’s Health.” The first half of the segment features a brief treatment demonstration and some patient […]
The so-called liquid facelift has once again been featured by a national media outlet. Harper’s Baazar recently posted an excellent article that outlines the pros and cons of all the latest wrinkle fillers. The Best Beauty section of the September issue includes before and after pictures and a discussion of professional techniques for administering injectables. […]
We wrote last month about the FDA’s recent approval of Sculptra for cosmetic use. Now more physicians are starting to use the wrinkle filler, and marketing efforts of it have been increased. Just recently, Dr. Jeannette Graf appeared on the CBS Early show to demonstrate treatment with Sculptra. This video features a few before and […]
Yesterday brought an exciting announcement from pharmaceutical company sanofi-aventis; Sculptra has been FDA cleared for physicians to use in additional facial cosmetic procedures. Even though off-label cosmetic use of Sculptra is common and has been happening for years, original approval of the filler was for treating lipoatrophy, i.e. facial fat loss, in AIDS patients. Professionals […]