What to Know About Sculptra
Sculptra is the only FDA approved poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) facial injectable treatment that helps stimulate the skin’s own natural collagen production. It works gradually to help restore your skin’s inner structure to smooth facial wrinkles, such as smile lines, for a more youthful looking appearance.
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF COLLAGEN IN AGING?
As we age, we lose collagen, which acts as the skin’s support structure and helps maintain its shape. In fact, 70% of our skin is composed of collagen,
and collagen loss causes the skin to lose its elasticity and moisture.
Sculptra helps treat an underlying cause of facial aging the loss of collagen. By helping stimulate your own natural collagen growth, Sculptra gradually adds volume that lifts the soft tissues and plumps skin from within.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM YOUR SCULPTRA TREATMENT:
- Stimulates your own natural collagen growth
- Helps restore lost facial volume and provides support to the skin to improve the look of smile lines (nasolabial folds), marionette lines, preauricular wrinkles (the vertical wrinkles in front of the ears), radial cheek folds (vertical wrinkles below the cheek), and chin wrinkles.
- Provides gradual and natural-looking results that become visible over a few months
- Long lasting—lasts up to 2 years*
*Individual results and treatment regimens may vary. The clinical trial ended at 96 weeks (2 years).
The most common side effects after initial treatment include injection site swelling, tenderness, redness,pain, bruising, bleeding, itching and lumps.
Once injected Sculptra begins working with your body deep within the skin to help stimulate your skin’s own natural collagen production over time, helping to reinforce the skin’s inner structure and increase facial fullness that has been lost due to aging.
On average, a series of 3 treatment sessions over the course of a few months may be needed. The number of injections at each session will vary depending on the degree of correction needed and the treatment plan determined by you and your specialist.
Sculptra is made from poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA), a biodegradable substance that has been proven safe and has been used in medical products, including dissolvable sutures, for more than 30 years.