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Ageing is an inevitable process…Collagen is a key structural component that makes your skin youthful and glowing. However, as you age, the body decreases the production of collagen, and it is due to this reason that you begin to see wrinkles, facial folds and fine lines on your face. Sculptra is a non-surgical cosmetic treatment that corrects shallow and deep facial wrinkles by replacing the lost collagen, thus providing you a much youthful appearance. Sculptra Los Angeles is a perfect treatment for those who do not wish to go under the knife, and yet, need a facelift. The best part about sculptra is that it has no incisions, no bruising, no scarring and a negligible downtime, unlike as in traditional facial plastic surgery Los Angeles.

Sculptra is an injectable liquid used to add volume to areas of the face that need a lift. Sculptra creates a soft, natural and more youthful contouring of the face by building collagen, and adding volume to hollow cheeks, boney cheekbones, hollow chin area, hollow temples, and nasolabial folds (nose to mouth).

If you wish to undergo sculptra, then you certainly need a surgeon who is specialized in this non-surgical facelift. Dr. Michael Persky, a board certified plastic surgeon, MD, at Persky Sunder Facial Plastic surgery Encino, has successfully carried out numerous treatments with Sculptra Los Angeles. Dr. Persky is specialized in injecting sculptra into the sub-cutis layer of the skin, thus resulting in tightening of the skin over the face and giving a refreshed look. There may be slight swelling, redness, itching, or tenderness after the procedure, but then, that subsides away in a short while. Results of sculptra can be partly seen immediately after the first session; however, it usually takes 4-6 weeks for the full impact to be visible.

For more details, contact Dr. Michael Persky, MD at Persky Sunder Facial Plastic Surgery, Encino, CA or call 818-501-3223.

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With ageing, many people tend to observe a significant loss in the facial volume. The foremost signs of ageing are fine lines and wrinkles on the face, and gradually over the years, loss of volume can be observed. Furthermore, the skin loses its elasticity and looks loose and sagging. These signs tend to appear because the production of collagen reduces with age. The thought of getting a facelift done is quite natural.

Sculptra is used to correct the shallow and deep facial wrinkles and folds. Sculptra is a synthetic, injectable material which is injected below the surface of the skin, in the area of fat loss, and provides an increase in the skin thickness. Initially, swelling will appear but after a few days, the swelling will have gone down, and you may look as you did before the treatment. Sculptra is injected in small amounts using a very fine needle. This treatment takes time to correct the depression in your skin, and usually takes 2-3 sessions, although, results are partly seen immediately after the first session.

However, only an experienced and board certified plastic surgeon can truly be successful in this kind of non-surgical facelift. Dr. Michael Persky, MD, Persky Sunder Facial Plastic Surgery Encino, CA, has successfully carried out numerous treatments with sculptra Los Angeles. It is his deep understanding of facial anatomy and a sense of aesthetic beauty that he is able to carry out the injection procedure quite skillfully, without damaging the facial nerves. Sculptra is one of those non-surgical procedures in facial surgery Los Angeles that has negligible downtime, no incisions, no scarring and no bruising.

Dr. Persky will provide you with specific post treatment care instructions. In an initial consultation with him, he will provide you with all the details for the treatment and give you professional advice on what you might experience. For more details, call 818-501-3223.

The first signs of aging are nowhere more apparent than on facial features. The three major things that happen are –

– diminished volume on the temples, cheeks and below the eyes resulting in loss of contour of the face
– baggy skin and muscles, sagging cheeks and formation of jowls
– textural changes of the skin and development of fine lines and wrinkles

The hollowed out and loose facial skin is mainly due to decreased collagen production as aging sets in. A very convenient way to reverse these signs is through Sculptra treatment. Sculptra Los Angeles is dermal filler that is injected deep into the sub-cutis layer of the skin with a very fine needle. It boosts low collagen levels and creates fresh collagen that plumps out the hollows, tightens loose skin and eliminates fine lines.

Generally, a course of 4 injections is necessary given at 2 to 3 week intervals for the full impact of the procedure to be noticeable even though early results can be seen immediately after the first one. For Sculptra treatment to be successful, the injectables should be administered by a trained board certified surgeon who is a specialist in facial Plastic Surgery Los Angeles. He should have great knowledge of facial anatomy to know the exact doses of Sculptra required if the face is to have a natural and balanced look.

Dr. Michael Persky, MD, Encino is trained in Sculptra Los Angeles and has successfully carried out numerous such procedures. If you are considering a mini non-surgical facelift, seek an initial consultation with him. Ask for before and after photographs of his previous patients of Sculptra treatment. You will surely be impressed with his ability to turn around the signs of aging and craft out a perfect look.

Nowhere is the aging process more apparent than the face. When the mirror shows appearance of fine lines, a hint of loose and sagging skin below the chin (often called a double chin) and around the neck, you can either choose to ignore it as an inevitable part of life or decide to do something about it. If the ageing is at an advanced stage traditional facial Surgery Los Angeles requiring incisions is usually the only option. But to take care of the initial signs, one of the best facial treatment is Sculptra Los Angeles.

Production of collagen is the key to a taut and firm skin. When this drops, the skin loses its elasticity resulting in drooping and a baggy appearance of the face. For those in the late thirties and thereafter but below sixty, Sculptra treatment will be just perfect. It is injectable dermal filler that is administered deep within the sub-cutis layer of the skin at points that need plumping out. It boosts collagen producing levels leading to a young look when the skin tightens up. The full treatment with Sculptra Los Angeles consists of a series of 4 injections given at 2 to 3 week intervals. It is a non-invasive procedure, requires no downtime with initial results noticed immediately even though it might take up to 6 months for the full impact to be visible.

However, for Sculptra treatment to be really successful, the surgeon must have a deep understanding of facial anatomy. The injections should not damage facial nerves and the outcome should show a natural and symmetrical look. Hence choosing a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon is crucial. Dr. Michael Persky, MD of Persky Sunder Facial Plastic Surgery, Encino is one such surgeon with numerous successful treatments with Sculptra to his credit. Fix an appointment with Dr. Michael Persky and ask for before and after photographs of his previous patients. You will not fail to notice his excellent abilities to craft the perfect young look with Sculptra.

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We have just returned from Phoenix, Arizona this weekend where the Sculptra Aesthetic Training and Education Relaunch Advisory Board was held. About 20 of the world’s top Sculptra injectors met to discuss their vast experience with the use of Sculptra. We were humbled and honored to be included with these brilliant, creative, artistic aesthetic physicians.

oxman sculptra Sculptra (Galderma; Dallas, TX a subsidary of Nestle; Vivey, Switzerland) is Poly-L Lactic Acid (PLLA), the same material that make up absorbable sutures. Sculptra has been used since 1999, was first FDA approved to stimulate volume in patients with HIV lipodystrophy in 2001 in the US. It was approved for cosmetic use in the US in 2004. Sculptra is safe, effective, and has many benefits.

We have found the use of Sculptra to be among the best values of facial rejuvenation because of it’s long lasting nature as well as the ability to treat the entire face. Though Sculptra is used in patient of all ages, it is best to begin Sculptra treatments in young patients as less is needed and the aesthetic benefits are quickly seen. Our faces begin to lose volume (bone and fat) from about 25 years old on. A vial of Sculptra properly placed can reverse the earliest signs of facial aging…mid-face hollowing, hints of jowls, and sagging jaw line.

Sculptra patients look younger. Among the best candidates for Sculptra are athletic wasted faces, post-face lift patients, and patients 45 years old or younger with mid face volume loss, especially men. Sculptra is a unique product in that it provides both lifting and tightening of the face and neck. It not only stimulates mcrae sculptra increased volume in the face, but there is a “Sculptra Glow” of the skin. With Sculptra patients get the benefits of many products combined resulting in improved facial structure and skin improvement. In thin skinned patients with dynamic smile/sleep lines on the sides of their face/cheeks, Sculptra can correct these difficult to treat lines and improve the quality of the skin long term.

Along with improved general skin quality, Sculptra most impressively corrects acne scars. It is also being used to improve the skin and lines of the decollette` and to rejuvenate hands. It is being applied topically after fractionated CO2 laser treatment to markedly improve laser results. We have found that patient results with Sculptra are greater when the patient commits to an excellent skin care product regime during and after their treatment.

The key differentiator of Sculptra is that it stimulates the patient’s own collagen production resulting in natural volume replacement. It is also unique Sculptra male in that the effects of Sculptra occur gradually over weeks to months, and then the results are the longest of any non-permanent facial filler. It is also the only facial volume injectable that heat devices such as Ulthera and lasers can be used over. In fact, we have found that the effects of each of these treatments are exponentially increased when used together!

Sculptra is well suited to allow those of us expert in facial evaluation and aesthetics to use our artistic vision treat the whole face and attain natural beautiful results for our patients.

An article in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery Jan/Feb 2015 by HH Chen, et.al. has documented the quantitative effectiveness of Sculptra over a long time period. The incidence of complications and adverse events with Sculptra are minimal because of the knowledge and experience of it’s use over the years.

There is “something about Sculptra” that has made it one of the best choices for both men and women of all ages to look younger and improve the long term quality of their skin. Should you have any questions about Sculptra please feel free to contact us. Be well!

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Video Highlights: Sculptra Los Angeles

0:23 Who makes Sculptra?
0:34 The characteristics of Sculptra
0:40 What is Sculptra and does it do?
1:10 The dread of aging and the role of fillers
1:57 Combining Sculptra with other fillers
2:13 The cost of Sculptra
2:15 Why is Sculptra more economical than other fillers?
2:28 Sculptra versus fat transfers
3:26 Session requirements
3:55 Collagen growth
4:45 How long will Sculptra last?
5:09 The benefit of building a personal base of collagen

Hi this is Dr Michael Persky. I’m a facial plastic surgeon here in Encino California. We’d like think of Encino as the Beverly Hills of the San Fernando Valley. I am a consultant and lecturer as well as an instructor for Valiant which is the company that makes Sculptra.

And today I’d like to talk to you about one of the questions a patient asked me about today during consultation which is, what makes Sculptra different from other fillers. Sculptra Los Angeles.

Sculptra is a biostimulatory filler which means that when we inject it stimulates the immune system to make volume and increase the volume of the face. All other fillers fill the hollows of the face, fill the lines of the face. A few years back, thanks to the work of Bryan Ambro, Rod Rohrich, Joe Pesa, Rebecca Fitzgerald, Amy Lager a consensus about facial aging was come to and that is rather than filling the lines of the face when they occur, those lines are occurring because of the lost of volume in the face from the lost of fat and the preauricular area, over the brows, the cheek, the chin and that’s what’s causing the lines. Rather than just filling lines, what we are now doing, again our philosophy has changed, we are now filling the areas up where we’ve lost the volume and by reinflating the face it actually takes care of those lines without having to fill them. Of course, even with Sculptra, there may be a few superficial lines that will be filled with other fillers. So it’s nice to combine other fillers with Sculptra. it’s not all of one or all of the other. But what’s nice with Sculptra is it globally fill the face in a way that’s not really possible with other fillers.
Younger patients may need one or two. Older patients may need three to four sessions. Much older patients who have a lot of volume loss would probably be better served by having a facelift and maybe fat injected at the same time. Economically, Sculptra makes sense over other fillers. And that once the patient reaches full correction and the face is rejuvenated, we don’t have to treat patients again for 2-4 years. So when you amortized the cost of Sculptra over time, it’s a lot less expensive than the other fillers that you need to start over again every time they run out.Even with fat when we take patients to the operating room and do fat transfers we are able to again, fill the place but Sculptra is a lot more predictable and reliable than fat when we put fat transfers in. Approximately 40 to 60 percent of the fat survives. We don’t know how much of it will survive and where it will survive so as Dr Ambro says the most common procedure to fat surgeons do is fat transfer and the second most common is a second fat transfer and then the third one is because the fat that stays is permanent is removing the fat. So with Sculptra, we are able to predictably rejuvenate the face by replacing lost volume. That’s really the main difference between Sculptra and other fillers. The other difference is with other fillers the injection process is done. Face is filled and the patient walks out and there’s a finite amount of time, six to twelve months before the patient needs to come back to have more filler put in. With Sculptra, the amount of volume changed is directly related to how many sessions the patient has so in other words, the first time a patient has Sculptra inject them, we don’t inject them to fill all the hollows. You have to think of that more in terms of spreading seeds out to grow new collagen in the places where we want to grow it. And we can’t and we don’t fill those areas up to max so it would be like putting a fertilizer on a lawn up to here and expect it to grow more grass. There’s only so much collagen that will grow at one time with a treatment session of Sculptra so, after this session, the patient will wait a good six to eight weeks, come back and then we can treat again in the areas where more volume is needed. The amount of volume replacement with Sculptra is directly related to how many injection session the patient has or needs.Sculptra Los Angeles.

And again, the nice thing about Sculptra at that 2-4 year point where you put a little bit more in, you don’t have to start all over by building things up because the patient has a nice based of their own collagen. So, I hope that answers most of your questions about Sculptra. Certainly if you have any more, please feel free to contact me either my website, you can call my office, or email me, i’ll be happy to get back with you.

Be well. Bye Bye.

If you are interested in a Sculptra procedure, please schedule your consultation with Dr. Persky by calling (818) 501-3223. Join our newsletter to receive special offers & promotions exclusively available for subscribers.

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Video Highlights

00:14 – Beauty Secret
00:35 – Botox + what?
01:01 – What fillers to use
01:10 – Picasso’s proportions
01:20 – Da Vinci’s facial harmony
01:40 – Areas to work on
02:00 – Don’t go by what others look like

Hi this is Dr. Michael Persky, I’m a facial plastic surgeon in Encino California, suburb of Los Angeles, it’s approximately 20-25 minutes from both Beverly Hills and Hollywood, California.

Today I’d like to share with you a little beauty secret that came up during the day in the office. While consulting with a 50 year old very beautiful woman who wanted to look a little bit better for her upcoming birthday party. She was receiving her Botox injections and asked me what she could have done that would make her look better. What would I do. And I told her that it looked like her face need a little volume in both the mid cheek area and jaw area.

Oh No no no! I was working out in the gym today next to a 30 year old woman who was just puffed up. I will never do fillers on my face. She looked ridiculous. And what I told her was, it’s not really what fillers you used or how it’s done but it’s rather the artistic vision of the person who’s putting it in. If the doctor or nurse studied under Picasso’s proportions, they’re gonna look funny. They’re gonna look like a genetic mutant. If that doctor studied rather under Da Vinci’s proportions of facial harmony, then no matter what fillers you use they’ll end up looking good.

If somebody looks obviously done, then we’ve failed them as facial plastic surgeons.

So in her case, she again could have used volume in her mid cheek area, in her marionette area and as well as anterior to her jaw area. So she’s gonna consider that, but seriously, when you are considering whether you should have a treatment done, don’t go by what other people looked like.

If the person who put the material into the face studied out Picasso’s school of cosmetic surgery they’ll look funny but if they’ve done their work and know about facial beauty and harmony and the shape that a face should have then they’re in good hands. That’s our beauty secret of the day. Be well and we’ll see you soon.

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