A BREAKTHROUGH MEDICAL TREATMENT TO CORRECT WRINKLES, ACNE SCARS, AND FOLDS
April 17th, Sadick Dermatology Office, Great Neck N.Y.
Text J. Ecochard
Images Courtesy of Artes Medical and are of actual clinical trial results.
We’ve written on medical technology alternatives to pricey plastic surgery. And after an up-close look at the talented actress director Helen Hunt who looks realistically amazing-and to our eyes, has had no work done except maybe a spray-on tan-we are glad people are leaning away from the phoniness of blown up lips and chipmunk cheek implants. They look way better.
Except drag queens of course.
So our ears were open but our eyes were really bug eyed by a live demonstration on a late sixty something woman-forgoing a lift for two strategically implanted syringes of ArteFill™-an ultra purified permanent (7 years plus) FDA approved filler by Artes Medical. She looked her age but refreshed…a cliché-but true.
Dr. Neil Sadick who has the required scientific pedigree to conduct research in all sorts of dermatological areas…wielded the needles after a short presentation on what he feels is “pioneering, safe effective product to treat acne scars, (FINALLY!!!) nasofabial folds, lines, and to add structured integrity” to cheekbones for example.
Sadick emphasized how this is a new formulation of ArteCoil, and how long it’s been in clinical use. Sadick was clearly happy with the fillers ability to “produce natural looking, non-migrating results (that) induces the body to create collagen.”
Like the gift that keeps on giving.
We took the skin test for ArteFil™-to see if it’s really like a TB test and to accurately report on how it felt. Granted, a needle went into our muscled forearms (courtesy of rock climbing)-but after an hour, we forgot about it…and had no reaction.
Sadick feels the target market for ArteFill™ is for sophisticated clients who are tired of shelling out money for repeated temporarily gratifying treatments of fillers. He also felt that there is no comparable filler on the near term research pipeline that works similarly. (We asked).
We can see why men and women suffering from noticeable (ugly) acne and chicken pox scars will clamor for this treatment as a cheaper, permanent alternative to laser and other filler protocols on the market.
And of course, readers need to educate themselves about all aspects of any injectable...and the person wielding the syringe.