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How Can a Single Touch Up of Sculptra Be Enough to Maintain Results?

asked 2 years ago by camile in california
Latest answer by Ronald Shelton, MD
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Tags: amount, effectiveness, touch up

If Sculptra and/or the collagen created by it, last up to two years before completely breaking down, why do many surgeons insist that a touch up of just one vial is needed to maintain the effects? Wouldn't the whole process of three treatments have to be repeated to maintain the results?

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Sculptra maintenance

Although three sessions are often done initially with Sculptra, there is significant new collagen left behind in many patients even at two years. Granted, the residual new dermis may not be visualized as an improvement but the scaffold is there, and it is common to find that less volume is needed the next time treatment needs to be initiated.If only one vial is needed, it doesn't mean that two years after the maintenance treatment that only one vial wold be needed then. It is quite... more
Ronald Shelton, MD

Manhattan Dermatologist

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