Renuva is an injectable treatment that can reverse volume loss in the face and neck, to plump cheeks, smooth wrinkles, and improve skin tone.
It can also rejuvenate the backs of hands, balance asymmetrical breasts, and fill in indented scars, cellulite dimples, décolletage lines, and liposuction irregularities.
Once injected, Renuva creates a honeycomb-like "adipose matrix" that acts as a scaffold for your own body fat to form, a process called remodeling. It's gradually replaced over the next three months by your own fat cells, reversing volume loss in the face, hands, and body.
“Renuva relies on your own body’s ability to replace fat within the injected structural matrix material,” explains Dr. Erez Sternberg, a plastic surgeon in Jacksonville, Florida.
Results are similar to autologous fat transfer (in which excess fat is harvested from another area of the body and injected into an area where more volume is desired), without the need for liposuction. This can be a plus for people who have little body fat to transfer, or who don’t want the risks or expense of plastic surgery.