Stem cell facelift: Myth or Reality?

In an environment of Plastic Surgeons ongoing debate about whether it is possible to use stem cells for a facelift. Opinion on this subject were divided.

American Eva Campbell Morales noticed dramatic age-related changes skin after 40 - there were wrinkles and bad wrinkles. Slim did not help Eve to look youthful, yet face betrayed the real age of the woman. She appealed to the clinic of Dr. Nathan Newman in Beverly Hills, and the dermatologist persuaded her to try a new method facelift   using stem cells .

"The results were phenomenal - said Eva. - All the person has acquired a clear structure, a new stretch of the skin, wrinkles are gone." Traditional facelift   It involves surgical incisions and pull wrinkled skin. Stem cell facelift   - Nepolosnaya operation. It involves the injection of the patient's own fat, with the help of which a person acquires the previous level.

In the first stage liposuction, in which fat is taken out of the body (where there is an excess). Then after special treatment fat injected under the skin of the patient. But at what point is there are stem cells - that's the million dollar question. More specifically on the $ 5000 - $ 10,000 in clinics estimate that this procedure. And the answer depends on the specialist to whom you refer.

"I am absolutely convinced that 90% of doctors who promise you a facelift stem cells, just take your fat, process it in a centrifuge, and then inject under the skin, - says the plastic surgeon from Illinois Dr. Carol Gutowski. - It is common transplant of fat, which is used in medicine for decades. Now, in the name was added, the term "stem cells" because it stirs per consumer. Yes, there fat stem cells, but it absolutely does not mean anything. "

"I have been using stem cells in cosmetic surgery more than 10 years - objection Nathan Newman. - I develop a special procedure in which I identify additional stem cells from collagen, and then add them into fat, which I stick to patients. Juvenile gloss leather It provides a growth factor, which is given stem cells. "

However, none of these points of view does not yet have a solid scientific basis. So patients have to trust your own heart. ( READ MORE )

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