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Last week the US Food and Drug Administration granted approval for a new treatment to combat frown lines, medically called nasolabial folds.
‘Radiesse’ was developed by BioForm Medical in 2002 for use in facial reconstructive surgery, but now the calcium based microsphere technology has been approved for other applications.
The new treatment is longer lasting as it not only fills in facial folds and depressions like existing ‘wrinkle fillers’, but also increases the bodies capacity to produce collagen. Collagen provides body to facial tissues.
The drug was also approved for use on HIV positive candidates who suffer from significant facial fat loss (or lipoatrophy).
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2004/204_beauty.html
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We've been writing about Cosmetic Surgery since 2006. Where used appropriately it can have a positive impact upon patients' lives. Any views here, whilst exhaustively researched, are our own. Please seek your own medical advice as things may change, alternative approaches may be more suitable and some surgeries impact people differently.
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