Sculptra is so good. I look at a face now sometimes and when I see that you need Sculptra,
I just can’t unsee it until I’ve told you about Sculptra. You may be here for your
Botox, I’m like I have to tell you about Sculptra. What is Sculptra? Unlike dermal
fillers that we use in the lips, or sometimes in the chin, or the jawline, Sculptra is a
bio-stimulatory filler. It’s making you make your own collagen. The places that we
see you’ve lost volume over time: cheeks, temples, jawline, this periocular space here,
even in your nasolabial folds. We can correct that, all of that, with Sculptra. Usually,
my rule with Sculptra is one vial per decade, but I start treating patients as young as
30 all the way up to 70, 80 years old, and that’s because it’s this very subtle,
natural, delayed gratification kind of treatment. For Dr. Holman, for example, we have treated
in her hairline, and it’s just kind of pulled everything up because over time, her body
starts making that collagen where she’s lost it in her temples, and it just kind of
gives her this nice, not a face lift, but it pulls everything back, it opens things
up. For athletic younger patients, it’s a great treatment for your temples where you
start to get a little bit hollow, if you’ve noticed that. I think I heard a trainer one
time, a doctor call it “peanut face”, not very nice. But he’s talking about that
deepness that you get here, the hollow in the temple. Cheeks, it’s a great correction.
Underneath your nose we start to lose volume right through here. These are things that
maybe you don’t look in the mirror and specifically say, “I’m losing volume in my pure form
aperture.” Dr. Holman and I can look at you and say, “We know what would make a
huge difference, but something so subtle that it would take 6-8 weeks to even see that difference.”
Sculptra is ideal where you come in and you say, “I want a very natural correction,
but I want an overall correction,” because when we do a Sculptra treatment, I've got
enough product that I can do an overall correction. I can look and say, “Okay you need a little
bit here, you need a little bit in your cheek, you need a little bit in that periocular space.”
The cool thing about Sculptra, so again different than those HA fillers which are kind of what
everybody thinks of with fillers, with those fillers you walk out, you’re as full as
you’re gonna be, and then it’s gonna decline depending on the product over nine to kind
of fifteen months. With Sculptra, you’re gonna walk out and be like “I look awesome!”
and then two or three days later when swelling and stuff has gone down you’re gonna go
“And where did it all go.” And that’s because it’s going to be your collagen that
fills in these areas. But, because of that there’s a few things that of course as a
dermatologist, we love about that. Because kind of in this dermatology world, we’re
looking for very natural corrections, non-surgical corrections. When you build your collagen,
guess what, it’s your collagen. A lot of times, we’re gonna start folks off with
a series of three treatments to really get this great overall correction. And then, it
may be every two to five years we are doing one treatment, just to top off that collagen
gas tank essentially. I love, one of my patients told me she was coming in for her Sculptra
treatment, and she said, "My husband asked me where I was going. I said, I’m going
to get some fertilizer.” It’s so true. I know, and that’s really what it is. You’re,
you know, building your own stuff, but the other thing when you’ve done a series of
Sculptra, your skin looks fabulous. The collagen glow. Yes, everything looks shiny and new,
and it’s just a natural lift because again, we’re replacing where the aging is happening.
We’re not just chasing lines through there. We’re saying why do you look tired? Why
don’t you look like you did before you lost that weight? That kind of stuff too. We’re
replacing those areas. Another place that we see too where Sculptra was first really
approved in, and when I see this kind of defect or, you know, a place that needs correction
on a face, I can’t think of anything but Sculptra. It’s when folks, and I know a
lot of times I see this in really athletic women or sometimes it’s just a genetic pattern
of aging, but it was initially approved in HIV guys who would get this thing called lipoatrophy.
It’s where you get this, kind of, loss of volume right through here, that’s really
specific. It gives you that really almost kind of skeletal look there to your lower
face, and Sculptra is beautiful in that area because I’ve got enough volume to use, you
build your own collagen through there, and it’s a great correction. One of the most
natural corrections that we can do is with Sculptra, and it’s a good starting place
too. It’s a great starting place to get this overall natural correction, and then
at the same time we may do a little bit of a lip. Those kind of things too with our traditional
HA fillers, or some Sculptra and we do some laser. Treating your skin as well, and re-volumizing
at the same time. We use a ton of Sculptra around here because it gives you long lasting
and very, very natural results. So today you’re going to watch us treat a patient whose had
Sculptra before. We are just kind of spreading fertilizer all over that line. She’s gonna
look a little bit puffy today. We use a cannula, we numb, and we use a cannula so there’s
no down time. She’ll just be a little bit puffy today, a little overfilled looking,
and in a couple days, like Dr. Holman said, it’ll look like nothing's done. And then
she’ll start that slow process of collagen, building her own collagen.