5-Nov-06 3:00 PM  CST  

Channel 2: Dr. Mentz uses "liquid facelift" to remove wrinkles and reduce aging. 

Botox, Restylane, Juvederm and Radiesse combinations can improve results!

Liquid Facelift Used to Remove Wrinkles -- Channel 2 KPRC Coverage

Dr. Mentz administers a liquid face lift using a combination of Botox, Restylane and Radiesse.

HOUSTON -- Do you want to get rid of wrinkles, but surgery seems scary? A liquid facelift may be the answer, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.

Doctors said a few injections could take years away. Wrinkle fillers are starting to catch up to Botox, which was the most popular cosmetic procedure in 2004. Botox, Restylane and Radiesse are different products used for different situations.The combination can improve results.

"These liquid facelifts generally combine soft-tissue fillers like Radiesse, Juvederm and Restylane with Botox which reduces animation wrinkles. There are some that you inject deep (Radiesse), like for cheek fullness, and there are others that you inject just under the skin for lines around the mouth (Restylane and Juvederm)," said Dr. Henry Mentz, a Houston plastic surgeon.Mentz said it's a good product for younger patients who are not ready for a surgical facelift. Botox can reduce animation lines and in combination the effects can be dramatic.

"I always wanted to do something about these lines in my face," said Shelley Schefler, a patient.  A few injections in some key areas filled in the wrinkles.

But how long will it last?  "Some patients, for example, with Restylane -- after two or three months it seems like it's all gone. And there's some patients that seem like they get eight to 12 months out of it. It has something to do with the immune system and maybe their health as well," Mentz said.

Some still worry about what is being injected into their faces.So, Mentz is involved in studies to get a new procedure approved by the Food and Drug Administration called Isolagen.

"It's a process by which you can take some skin, from let's say behind a patient's ear and you extract the fiber blasts. Now the fiber blasts are the cells that make collagen," Mentz said.  Then, they are harvested in a lab and used as a concentration of a patient's own collagen-producing cells to inject in the wrinkle.
Results of Botox, Restylane, Juvederm and Radiesse Treatment Last Differently For Different Patients.


On The Net:

• American Society of Plastic Surgeons
   
• American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
  
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  
• Restylane
  
• Isolagen
• Botox
• Juvederm
  

 

For additional information on this liquid facelift article, please contact:

Henry Mentz
(713) 354-5152

Source: Dr. Henry Mentz

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