New Facelift Uses Patient's Own Blood
New Facelift Uses Patient's Own Blood
Lolita Lopez reports on a procedure where a patient's own blood is used in a cosmetic procedure designed to make the face look younger.
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" This is not a scary tale but the story of a new procedure aimed at making you looked younger almost instantly. It's called the vampire facelift."
" So -- and -- we can look. Young and stay -- exactly about it the whole idea immortal forever."
" Doctored feel humble is one of a handful of doctors in the Los Angeles area performing the procedure from our offices in Redondo Beach."
" It actually involves using platelet rich plasma. We found patient's own blood and then we separate the plasma that has the platelets and that's. And we re injected into the face we can use the growth factors that they met to regenerate your skin and you better texture and tone and volume. But overall Norman I just hesitant to lift to a three week fact that I have nightmares line and -- balanced hitting nice letter and I haven't. --"
" 48 year old Norma -- is here for her third treatment doctor humble says results -- visible during the plate looks like which is about seven days. Volume was noticeable in eight weeks -- the -- lasts up to nineteen months. -- for humans like this one from -- plasma were first used in 2009. But the benefit of PRP have been part of medical treatments for years. Whenever you have a small muscle hair or you have a silver hair you can injected into the joints and you have a repair. Doctor Campbell has been doing the procedure for two years and says from start to finish it takes about a half hour. -- that it might not race. PRP concept in 195214100. Dollars per visit and can be done based on the patient's desire and meet. People are getting away from from the artificial pillars. And this allowed them to have a totally natural process. To keep the same result."
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