A single injection of a new “permanent filler” called ArteFill could erase wrinkles for the rest of your life. Plastic surgeons have been making wrinkles vanish for 25 years by using products called “soft tissue fillers” such as collagen or Restylane. They fill in wrinkles such as the nasolabial folds that run from the edges of the nostrils to the corners of the mouth and are known as smile lines. Even the best of the treatments now available are expensive and only last from six months to a year.
ArteFill is different. While other fillers are made of animal or human collagen or hyaluronic acid, they are absorbed by the body in a few months. ArteFill, however, is made of microspheres of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), the most common material used in implants. It won’t be absorbed by the body over time and the manufacturer says it will also keep other wrinkles from forming.
ArteFill, which is waiting for approval from the Food and Drug Administration, is anticipated to cost about 50 percent more than Restylane, which usually runs $500 to $600 per syringe or cc.
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