COLLAGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY For Fewer Lines & Fuller Lips
Collagen is a key element that keeps our skin looking young and smooth. Every time you smile or frown, squint or pucker up, you put stress on the underlying collagen in the skin, which results in the development of facial lines. In addition, collagen is depleted naturally as you age, leaving many yearning for the plump and youthful skin they remember. Collagen Replacement Therapy offers immediate and dramatic results for those unhappy with the early signs of aging. It is the foremost non-surgical method to smooth facial lines and wrinkles, plump lips, and fill scars. The results produced are immediately noticeable and leave you with refreshed and more youthful looking skin.
What is Involved In Collagen Treatments?
Treatment is usually a four-step process. First, a consultation is set up to determine if Collagen Replacement Therapy is an option to achieve your favored results. Sensitivity to the material is determined by examination of your medical history and possibly a skin test. When all factors are deemed acceptable your treatment will be performed. Periodic Collagen Replacement Treatments may be required to maintain your desired look.
How Long Does Collagen Last?
Collage Replacement Therapy is temporary, with results from the first treatment normally lasting from 2 to 6 months. Eventually the collagen material is absorbed into the body and metabolized. Successive treatments are recommended to maintain optimal results.
How Will I Look And Feel Immediately after Treatment?
Most patients resume normal activities following treatment. The treated area may be subject to temporary puffiness, which diminished over a few days, a slight redness that subsides almost immediately. The area surrounding the mouth may feel slightly tender for a day or two. Within a few days, the material softens, blends and gradually is incorporated into your own skin and takes on the natural look and feel of healthy skin tissue. Depending on the area where collagen is injected, lips look fuller, lines are filled, and overall the face looks more youthful.
What Are The Benefits of Collagen Injections?
You will notice a reduction of frown or laugh lines, deep smile lines, lip lines, and worry lines. Crow’s feet and facial scars will be greatly minimized. Experience the thrill of fuller upper and lower lips.
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What Is Collagen?
Collagen is a natural protein found throughout the body that supplies structure to skin, muscle, tendon, and bone. Collagen fibers are woven like threads to form a supportive foundation and enhance the contours of outer layers of skin. It provides the skin texture with resiliency and shape. The collagen in certain animals closely resembles natural human collagen, and thus has many medical applications, including surgical sutures and heart valves. Injectable collagen is purified bovine dermal collagen, which is developed into Zyderm and Zyplast. Since the early Seventies, more than one million people globally have benefited from Collagen Replacement Therapy, restoring the collagen the body has lost naturally over time.
Who are Candidates?
Injectable collagen is not intended for people who have excessive facial skin or who need major resurfacing of their skin. It can, however be used as an adjunct to these procedures or to fill in depressions that cannot be eliminated by face-lifts, or other cosmetic treatments. People who have a history of certain allergies, various auto-immune diseases or are pregnant cannot be considered candidates.
CosmoDerm and CosmoPlast collagen-based dermal fillers are sterile devices composed of highly purified human-based collagen that is dispersed in phosphate-buffered physiological saline containing 0.3% lidocaine. CosmoDerm is a non-cross-linked formulation used in the treatment of superficial lines, whereas CosmoPlast is cross-linked and is primarily used in the treatment of more pronounced wrinkles.
CosmoDerm 1 - Purified human-based collagen 35 mg/mL, dispersed in saline. Indicated to treat fine lines, wrinkles and shallow scars. For thin-skinned areas. No skin test required.
CosmoPlast - Purified human-based collagen 35 mg/mL, cross-linked with glutaraldehyde dispersed in saline. Indicated to treat deep lines, furrows and scars. No skin test required.
