Collagen loss is a leading cause of skin aging — including fine lines and wrinkles, increased laxity (skin sag), and volume loss (facial deflation) — but you don’t have to embrace it.
At Manhattan Dermatology in Murray Hill and Midtown East, New York City, our expert team has the perfect anti-aging solution. Sculptra® is an FDA-approved injectable that works with your body to help rebuild lost collagen, smooth deep wrinkles, and restore lost facial volume for up to two years.
Learn how this advanced dermal filler works, and find out what it can do for you.
Beneath every youthful, luminous complexion, there’s a foundational scaffold of strong and resilient skin proteins. The most important and abundant protein in your deep skin layers — the one that gives your epidermal tissue its inherent strength and structure — is collagen.
Known as the “quintessential skin matrix” due to its flexible rigidity and natural resistance to overstretching, collagen works with two other vital skin proteins, keratin and elastin, to ensure every dermal tissue layer 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. But with each passing birthday, your collagen levels decline a little. Starting in your mid-20s, 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 40-year-old has 20% less collagen in their skin than they did when they were 20 years old.
Sun damage and unhealthy habits like smoking only accelerate this natural process. The result? Visible skin aging that you see each time you look in the mirror.
Sculptra is a top-tier, FDA-approved filler designed to enhance your natural facial contours and smooth deep lines, creases, and wrinkles to effectively reverse some of the most noticeable signs of aging.
Sculptra’s success lies in its main ingredient: poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA), a biocompatible substance that your body gradually absorbs. PLLA is a powerful collagen stimulator that steadily releases its microparticles into your deep epidermal layers, prompting your skin fibroblast cells to ramp up collagen production.
In other words, Sculptra harnesses your skin’s very own antiaging mechanism — its collagen production abilities — and gives it a major, long-lasting boost. Sculptra effectively works with your skin to actively restore its inner structure and volume, erasing fine lines and smoothing deep wrinkles along the way.
With just a few tiny, well-placed injections, Sculptra gets to work immediately. Skin-renewing results are visible within two weeks of treatment, with improving results becoming more and more noticeable for several months as the collagen remodeling process kicks into high gear.
Sculptra can 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 your 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).
In addition to smoothing deep wrinkles, Sculptra addresses contour deficiencies with beautiful, long-lasting results. It reverses facial deflation and restores lost volume, firming your cheeks and tightening the skin along your jawline and temples.
Depending on your skin evaluation and antiaging goals, your Sculptra treatment regimen may include up to four injection sessions, with each session scheduled three or four weeks apart.
Following your final treatment session, Sculptra continues stimulating your skin’s deep collagen response for many months, leaving you with smoother, younger-looking skin for up to two years — and possibly longer.
With zero downtime and near-immediate, ever-improving results that last, it’s easy to say yes to Sculptra. Are you ready to discover how this potent collagen stimulator can give you smoother, firmer, healthier, and more luminous skin for years to come? We can help.
Call your nearest Manhattan Dermatology office in the Murray Hill or Midtown East section of Manhattan, New York City, today, or use our online booking feature to schedule a visit at your convenience.
