hi i'm dr johnny thanks for joining me
for raji's quick clip we're talking
threads a lot of people know them as pdo
or the thread lift
or just facial threads i'm going to tell
you an important feature of threads
the different types in araji's quick
clip we're going to make it a super
quick one today but it's important to
know
because when people said i had the
thread lift or i had threads done or i
didn't like them or i loved them
it's important to know a thread isn't a
thread
isn't a thread meaning you have to know
what type of thread was used
and your provider will know it's
something you can ask them let's talk
about
what are the threads that you might want
to choose let's
get this started in three seconds
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now the threads the thread lift the cat
eye facial slimming
smooth threads whatever it is you were
talking about
it's important to know what was used
just like facial fillers just like your
botox and botox-like products
a user a follower here asked me ask the
question hey
i felt a snap and my thread from 15
years ago popped
that's a permanent thread that's
polypropylene
still used in some countries but imagine
a permanent thread trying to lift the
face
when it's changing in bone in muscle in
fat and strength
it's very difficult and so they're not
they caused puckering and over time they
didn't look right
50 of people were happy with them thus
in this country taken off the market in
many countries they are
they still do exist so it's possible but
those type of threads are not what
99 percent of people are talking about
when they talk about threads so that's
polypropylene
that's permanent that's number one
number two
pdo polydioxanol this is found in
sutures that dissolve they dissolve
typically after a month to three
the results last six to twelve months
they build mainly type 1
collagen maybe a bit of hyaluronic acid
they're the most commonly used
in canada in the usa now why is that
a they're the first ones to come b if
people don't like the result they
dissolve
they do need to be repeated like all the
resorbable threads
but there's a safety element in
something that's not permanent
but if we go into the second type of
thread it's a little longer or plla
polyl lactic acid you know it from
sculptra
lasts a little longer it is hydrophobic
as well it doesn't want to
attract water like the pdo doesn't so
that's nice
but that we think of lasting anywhere
from six to 12 months
builds type 1 and 3 collagen and they're
not as common i don't see a lot of them
but you start to see them
coming in north america now and they're
a good type of threat i always find that
when i'm using the mainly overseas
they're a little slippery a little more
slippery
they don't grab sometimes as much as
some of the pdo but so much goes into
that it's hard to tell because
it's also in the design of the thread
not just the material
the next longer lasting one is going to
be pcl
polycaprolactone i see these often in
different countries for the nose the
smooth threads that go in the nose
people want the nose to last long they
want a nice something with a high g
prime of course threads do and pcl are
it's a complex
formulation that and it is also found in
sutures that last a long period of time
so i often see them in nose threads but
they're used in other forms of threads
too
and they work very very very well
they're going to last you longer like 12
to 18 months
when i'm giving you those time frames
someone might disagree a little bit
based on some studies
but in general those are accepted
durations
the shortest acting will be pdo up to
plla
then pcl but remember when something's
really long lasting
you may not like it because if you don't
like the result you have to wait a long
time for it to get better
also when you produce collagen that
collagen stays with you
as long as you're healthy and you take
care of your body and you're doing your
other services that can
last you for six months a year or two so
there is a long-term effect of them but
it is a choice there are different
threads understand
it's your provider that's providing your
threads giving you the information based
on your face
your needs your prior procedures and
what your desired outcomes
and risk tolerances are just like
filling a glabella
you don't see many people use fillers
here in this country
because of the risk of blindness other
countries they're doing it every day
we don't have the risk tolerance we find
that that risk for
aesthetics of going blind one in ten
thousand to one and one hundred thousand
too high
just like with threads the the tolerance
for permanent
threads and 50 of people being unhappy
just to avoid a facelift
isn't tolerated in our society so you
have your own risk tolerances of what
you might accept
and your practitioner will dive into
that with you thanks for joining me
raji's quick clip on the type of threads
i hope that helped
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