No Knife Facelift
In time your skin loses its full, firm youthful appearance – a result of the natural ageing process. Your skin becomes thinner and can sag, causing wrinkles and deep lines to appear. Fat tissue which maintains the fullness of your face is also lost, causing your face to look thin and narrow and making you look older than you are. Sculptra can help by smoothing deep lines and wrinkles and also by returning lost volume to give you a natural looking fuller face.
What is Sculptra?
Sculptra is an injectable treatment that works by stimulating the build up of the body’s own collagen to get rid of lines and wrinkles. Sculptra’s volumising effect also restores lost facial volume, resulting in a fuller younger-looking face. The overall effect is a youthful appearance with gradual, natural looking results.
Suitable areas for Sculptra
• Sculptra is suitable for a number of areas on your face:-
• Deep folds between the nose and the mouth (nasolabial folds)
• Folds around the corners of the mouth (marionette lines)
• Sunken cheeks
• Wrinkling in the cheeks or chin
• Deep scars
Why Sculptra?
Sculptra is a discrete approach which allows a gradual natural effect to occur. Usually 2 or 3 treatments are required and natural looking effects should become noticeable after approximately six weeks.
Clinical studies have shown that the results of Sculptra can last for more than 3 years, significantly longer than other treatments.
It is well tolerated with over 17,000 treatments in the UK since 2005. The main ingredient of Sculptra has been used in medicine for over 10 years and is biocompatible, biodegradable and well tolerated.
No allergy testing is required before treatment
Your commonly asked questions:
Who performs the treatment?
A qualified practitioner who has been trained to use the correct procedures for Sculptra performs the treatment
Does the treatment Hurt?
As with all injections you will feel some discomfort. It may be that you notice a brief burning sensation at injection site.
What must I bear in mind after treatment?
Your Healthcare professional will give you special aftercare instructions. These include massaging the treated areas of the face in the first five days after treatment. Inform your healthcare professional if any side effects occur, for example inflammation of small bumps in the treated area.
Are there any side effects?
The most common side effect includes bleeding, tenderness or pain, redness, bruising or swelling at the site of injection. These side effects generally resolve in 2-6 days. One possible delayed side effect with Sculptra can be small bumps under the skin in the treated area. These small bumps may not be visible, and you may notice them only when you press in the treated skin. These bumps tend to happen within the first 6 to 12 months after the first treatment. Occasionally these bumps go away on their own. Visible bumps, sometimes associated with redness or colour change to the treated area have also been reported.