5 Reasons to Try Sculptra®: The Collagen Rejuvenator With Results That Last Two Years
Collagen loss may be a natural cause of age-related wrinkles, increased laxity, and volume loss, but you don’t have to live with it.
At City Derm NYC in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City and Flushing, we have the perfect solution: Sculptra®. This FDA-approved injectable works with your body to help rebuild lost collagen, smooth deep wrinkles, and restore lost facial volume for up to two years.
Board-certified dermatologist and practice founder, Catherine Ding, MD, FAAD, breaks down how Sculptra works and offers five reasons you should consider giving it a try.
Rebuilds collagen: The foundation of beautiful skin
Beneath every youthful-looking complexion, there’s an underlying scaffold of strong and resilient skin proteins. The most important and abundant protein in your deepest dermal layers — the one that gives your skin tissue its natural tensile strength and inherent elasticity — is collagen.
Collagen is the quintessential matrix for skin due to its rigidity and resistance to stretching. It also works in conjunction with other important skin proteins, such as keratin and elastin, to ensure dermal tissue maintains its shape and stays smooth and supple.
Collagen is plentiful in young, healthy skin. The average 20-year-old has a brimming “collagen reservoir” that’s 100% full. With each passing birthday, however, everyone’s collagen levels decline a little; you can expect your skin to lose about 1% of its collagen structures every year.
While it may not sound like much, it definitely adds up: the average 45-year-old has 25% less collagen than they did at 20.
Smooths deep lines, creases, and wrinkles
Sculptra’s success lies in its main ingredient: Poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA), a biocompatible, biodegradable, synthetic material that’s gradually and naturally absorbed by your body. PLLA is a potent collagen stimulator that steadily releases its microparticles into your deep dermal tissues, prompting your skin cells to ramp up their collagen production.
Sculptra harnesses your skin’s own anti-aging mechanism — its collagen-production potential — and gives it a major, long-lasting boost. In this way, Sculptra works with your body to actively restore your skin’s inner structure and volume, erasing fine lines and smoothing deep wrinkles along the way.
Natural-looking
With just a few tiny, well-placed injections, Sculptra gets to work immediately. Natural-looking, beautifully subtle results are noticeable within two weeks of treatment, with results continuing to improve for several months as your skin’s collagen remodeling process kicks into high gear.
Dr. Ding uses Sculptra to correct shallow-to-deep facial wrinkles and contour deficiencies with excellent, long-lasting results.
Sculptra is commonly used to improve the appearance of smile lines, or the vertical lines that extend from the sides of your nose and around your mouth. This includes the creases that extend from the edge of the nose to the outer corners of your mouth (nasolabial folds), as well as the wrinkles that extend from the corners of your mouth to your chin (marionette lines).
Depending on your skin assessment and aesthetic goals, your Sculptra treatment regimen may include up to four injection sessions, with each session scheduled 3-4 weeks apart.
Long-lasting results
Sculptra continues stimulating your skin’s deep collagen response for many months, leaving you with smoother, younger-looking skin for up to two years. Once the results wear off, you still benefit because your skin has rebuilt collagen, and the aging process has slowed. To maintain results, you can also choose to receive another set of injections.
Low-maintenance
Each treatment takes about 30 minutes, with minimal to no downtime and simple aftercare requirements. Because collagen builds up gradually, friends and family usually cannot tell that a procedure was done!
To learn more about Sculptra or to book your first appointment, contact City Derm NYC today.