"I vaaaaant to suck your blud" - What exactly is a vampire facelift?!
First there was Nosferatu, then the Twilight saga and now......there's a new name in town.....known as the...*lighting strikes, thunder claps*....... “The Vampire Facelift!!!!!”.....
Well.....not exactly....first, you need to know a few things about it. the main one being, it is not a bona fide face lift, this is because it's not a surgical procedure - it cannot sculpt the lower face, neck and jaw-line, as does the standard and face and neck lift.
The catchy title is just a simple play on words. You need to remove any ties you may have mentally with Team Edward or Jacob or.....if you're more inclined to traditional movies, the famous actor, Bela Lugosi - I'm sure in you head, your visualising Dracula horror movies, where the main villain sucks blood from your neck and then with a swoop of his cape, changes into a bat and flies out your window.........well, it's not like that....
The Vampire Facelift is getting a lot of media attention simply because of its name, and not because of it's spectacular results.
It did not originate in Transylvania; maybe not even Pennsylvania. But this is the essence of the process, as I understand it: using the patient’s own blood, a mixture is prepared that is injected under the skin, which ostensibly will do some plumping and filling of the tissue under the skin. Should the plumping be successful, then presumably, some of the signs of aging would be diminished. The proponents are hoping that such “self-filling” will be more permanent than the current crop of fillers.
I’m familiar with the basic science and technology of this variety of natural filler. The Vampire Facelift uses “platelet-rich plasma” as the filler. Platelets, very small fragments and a normal component of blood, are very valuable in healing. Their main function is to promote blood clotting when clotting is necessary, such as after an injury or surgery. They literally plug the holes in blood injured and leaking blood vessels. Platelets are also rich in growth factor, and other chemicals and hormones that stimulate the body to generate healing tissue.
All surgeons are familiar with the non-cosmetic uses of platelet-rich plasma. In the universe of all surgical specialties, platelet-rich plasma has had a long and successful run. Reconstructive plastic surgeons and cosmetic surgeons adopted it from those worlds of other surgical specialties including chest surgery where the plasma is sprayed over the stitch lines to promote rapid healing and reduce leakage from reunited blood vessels
So to conclude. Here at SpaMedica, we're not team Edward, Jacob or even Bella - we're just really good at our job!! For more information on us, you can visit our website here
