Dear RLee, I SERIOUSLY doubt that the "friends that say they have been treated by a doctor with a series of collagen injections" - really know what they were really injected with. This is tragic. Collagen is a cow derived dermal (skin) filler which was popular in the 1980's to late 1990's when new,... more
Collagen injections for hips and butt augmentation?
She's has friends that say they have been treated by a doctor with a series of collagen injections. I can't find anything about this procedure on the internet and am worried that she's really going to get silicone injections. Is collagen ever used as a hip and buttocks filler?
2 answers to “Collagen injections for hips and...”
A: Collagen is usually too expensive to use for this purpose...
Hi there- For a nice result with a buttock augmentation, we typically will require between 400cc and 1000cc of volume per side, expecting that some of the tissue will be resorbed over a few months after the procedure. Using a substance like collagen (or any other approved filler) for this purpose would be very... more
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