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HYDROLIFT ACTION:
Annalisa Beatini discusses her experience using HYDROLIFT™ ACTION with the objective of restoring hydration (HYDRO), volume (LIFT) and turgor, combining cross-linked hyaluronic acid and natural hyaluronic acid, while ensuring safety and efficacy
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DR ANNALISA BEATINI currently practices Aesthetic Medicine, Dermatologic Surgery and Laser Therapy, Liguria, Italy
N THE PROCESS OF CUTANEOUS AGEING, the effects of cronoageing and photoageing manifest differently. The gravitational pull on facial skin, structural bone changes, reabsorption of adipose tissue, and loss of turgor and elasticity owing to elastic fibre and collagen reduction and damage, are some of the problems we work to resolve on a daily basis. In fact, there are a number of methods that may be
used to reverse the effects of ageing, from surgery to laser treatments, to deep peels, but the request received from the majority of patients is for a treatment that is safe, pain-free, with no down-time, and showing immediate results, without complications. Hyaluronic acid (HA), a molecule
naturally present in our skin, has enabled us to respond to these demands; and over time, not only has HA been formulated into different concentrations and cross-linking grades to personalise treatments for the wide variety of imperfections, but at the same time the number of implant methods have multiplied also. One of the most recent methods implements the use of a cannula, which allows the treatment of the entire face with only four entrance points, using the products most suitable for obtaining the desired results, from restoring facial volume to improving skin texture, radiance, turgor and elasticity. Generally, these results are obtained through a number of treatments involving the scheduling of different aesthetic treatments, which often compromise patient compliance owing to repeated invasiveness of the entire therapeutic process. Furthermore, the use of HA at an elevated viscosity
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and cross-linking grade sometimes causes — especially in very thin skin — the appearance of lines similar to a
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‘pipe organ’ where the material has been implanted. This effect is most evident from the entrance point in the zygomatic region to the pre-tragus region, and disappears towards the malar region, where the skin is thicker.
“Using the methods
described by the author, the
result achieved in both groups was a uniform distribution of the product without the negative
aesthetic ‘pipe organ’ effect.
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Aims The objective of the author is to improve and expand the practice of this therapeutic rationale. The concept of HYDROLIFT™ ACTION proposes a simple, effective approach for obtaining this goal. The author has chosen to combine ALIAXIN® SR, an intradermal product pre-formulated with a combination of natural and cross-linked HA, with VISCODERM®, a natural HA for biorestructuration, or VISCODERM® SKINKO’, a natural HA combined with an anti-ageing
complex
for biocomplementation, in order to achieve the optimum results. The rationale behind this method is to
regulate the density of the injectable solution in order to obtain a desired lifting effect, and at the same time reach the objective of improving the cutaneous texture through biorestructuration or biocomplementation depending on the level of ageing of the patient. Therefore, the solution obtained by this combination becomes much easier to inject and distribute, and consequently,
the aesthetic results are more natural and homogeneous.
Materials and methods ■ALIAXIN® SR, monophasic gel formulated with three
different molecular weights (500 kDA, 1000 kDA, 2000 kDA), containing 22.5 mg/ml of cross-linked NAHA and 2.5 mg/ml natural NAHA (0.1 ppm BDDE)
■VISCODERM® 2.0%, 20 mg/ml NAHA ■VISCODERM® SKINKO’ injectable solution in 5 ml
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