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may 1st injection session #3
3rd 0.8cc injection in 3 months last week. i can feel the skin on my face tightening and lifting. doctor is injecting mainly in the upper cheeks, which pulls the nasolabial folds out. there's still juvaderm in there from injections i had over the last 2 years. i plan to go back to the doctor in 3 weeks to see if she feels we can place another 0.8 cc syringe. though i'm 54, i now look pretty much like i did in pics taken when i was 28, which is my final goal. (thinking peter burns here). she will not inject artefill in the glabella between the eyes or right below the eyes. for those areas she stays with juvaderm for safety issues. for the glabella, you need botox to prevent the material from breaking down fast. juvaderm under the eyes lasts a long time - more than a year. genrally she uses the 0.4 cc syringe there, so it's not very expensive to maintain. no problems with bruising or lumps. so, pretty good so far.
one more thing
i've read that from histology (looking at stained tissue biopsies under the microscope) of artefill treated skin, by 3 months post injection the skin has vascularized and grown into the pmma microspheres, so it's now forever part of the tissue.
update artefill
i had another artefill treatment 10 days ago, upper cheek areas, to help add volume to the face. it was a bit sore for 3 or 4 days, but then was fine. no problems yet. i'm scheduling another injection visit the start of may. i still have a lot of volume in the areas where i had juvaderm done over the last year. when that goes down some the doctor will start using artefill there too. she places artefill deep in the skin and messages it so there's no lumps i can feel. i asked her about putting some in the frown lines area but she said no. she said the risk of clogging the blood supply to the skin and eyes is too great there. if it's an ha product like juvaderm it can be dissolved with a chemical injection, but artefill can't be dissolved that way. some doctors will do it, but she won't. frankly the juvaderm stimuulated collagen and it's also actually removed years of sun damage from my cheeks and below my eyes, which also make me lookk younger. i read a dermatology papaer where they found ha like juvaderm causes sun damaged skin to repair itself. it stimulates the cells inside the skin because it stretches the dermis, so the skin compensated by making collagen to fill in the areas.