Soft Tissue Augmentation Using Artecoll: A Personal Experience

ABSTRACT

Artecoll is a dermal wrinkle filler that will be released in 2005 as Artefill^™. As one of the eight lead investigators for the U.S. study that compared Artecoll to Zyplast^™, I am reporting my experience with this new filler. Background information, injection technique, training, and other caveats are shared with focus on safety and up-to-date information on the product's status.

KEYWORDS

Artecoll - Artefill - tissue augmentation - dermal fillers - wrinkles - injection techniques - polymethylmethacrylate microspheres

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