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Vampire Facelifts

Advanced Skin Fitness understands there are many reasons you might pursue plastic surgery, be it recovery from ailment or a personal desire to look like you've always felt you should.

To set the record straight, a Vampire Facelift—at least the kind of face lift that uses Harvest Technologies Smart PReP or Selphyl blood separation systems to create your body's natural injectable filler—does not make you look like a vampire. While plenty of teens would clamor for that type of treatment, the real reason that Selphyl has been dubbed the Vampire Facelift is far less haunting.

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Platelet Rich Plasma or Platelet Rich Fibrin Matrix is an all new, natural dermal filler that uses the patient's own blood as the product. The patient has a few ounces of blood drawn and the clinician separates the patient's blood with a high tech centrifuge. The blood for procedure is processed and the platelets and fibrin are separated from the other substances in the blood like red blood cells. As you may know, platelets and fibrin are what help the blood to clot; however, when they are purified and injected back into the skin, they appear to stimulate the growth of new collagen. Collagen, the prototypical dermal filler, is what gives skin its fullness, suppleness, and elasticity.

What makes the Vampire Facelift or PRP injectable filler approach so attractive to patients is that it takes something that is natural to the body and re-purposes it for use as a cosmetic treatment. There is no rejection by the body's immune system because it is the patient's own blood. Also the separation of platelets and fibrin takes about 14 minutes to complete and can be done right in the treatment room. The actual injection after the PRP is processed takes less than 10 minutes.

The Vampire Facelift is really no different than any other dermal filler treatment in terms of what it can be used to treat. Platelet Rich Fibrin Matrix injectable filler can be used to treat nasolabial lines (from the corner of the nose to the corner of the mouth), glabellar lines (forehead crease between the eyebrows), as well as fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes and mouth. It's also a great product to enhance the cheeks. Before it was being used as part of the "vampire face lift" for purely cosmetic reasons, the technology had been applied to the correction of post-operative scars, burns and wound repair treatments, as well as orthopedics for tendon and ligament injuries.

Since the treatment is fairly new, it is not clear how long the results of PRP injectable filler last compared to other dermal fillers. Early clinical studies show at least 18 months, and we are likely to find the results are much more lasting. Also, since there is not a large amount of foreign substance being injected into the skin, there is a very low chance of becoming allergic to the contents used in the injection. People that are on anticoagulation or aspirin therapy may not be good candidates for the Vampire Facelift. Moreover, a patient must have a reasonable number of platelets in their blood in order for the filler to be effective. In other words, if you have low blood platelets, the PRP injectable filler is probably not the right dermal filler for you.

Please contact us at 214-521-5277 if you're curious about this process. We can set up a complimentary consultation and explain the entire process so that you can learn how the procedure works, and whether it's for you.