Renuva® – Fat Grafting Results Without Liposuction.
Renuva® is a unique product that provides fat graft results anywhere on the body without the need for liposuction. By stimulating your body to create fat where it’s injected, it can plump bony hands, smooth crepey necks, fill hollow cheeks, temples, hip dips, cellulite dimples, décolletage lines, and restore smooth contours in any body area.
Because Renuva® doesn’t attract water like hyaluronic acid fillers do after multiple treatments, it doesn’t cause the swollen, “doughy” appearance sometimes seen with hyaluronic acid products. It’s also a great product to use for touchups after fat transfers.
Renuva® combined with Sculptra is an excellent combination for people desiring both added volume and wrinkle-smoothing.
Access to Renuva is restricted to only elite medical aesthetic clinicians and Dr. Elliott was one of the first approved Renuva providers in the Tampa Bay area.
How Renuva® Works
Renuva® is the first and only treatment that stimulates the body to produce new fat cells in areas where it’s injected. It acts as a scaffold or honeycomb foundation attracting stem cells that transform into fat. After several months, the scaffold is completely replaced by your own fat.
Renuva® is made from donated fat tissue that has been carefully processed, purified, and sterilized. MTF Biologics, the makers of Renuva, follow more stringent protocols than even the Food and Drug Administration requires. The fat cells are removed from the tissue but the growth factors, proteins, and collagen remain.
What Renuva® Is Best For
Renuva® is best for restoring areas that have lost fat and it can be used in any part of the body where fat naturally exists. It’s commonly used to add volume to the face and hands and to correct depressed scars, cellulite dimples, and defects from liposuction.
When Renuva® Isn’t A Good Option
Since Renuva® produces an increase in fat, it’s not recommended when the look of enhanced bone is desired, such as in the jawline. It also isn’t a treatment option for under-eye depressions or lip enhancement and is not a good treatment option if you want maximum results immediately.
What To Expect With A Renuva® Treatment?
Renuva® treatments are very similar to treatments with dermal fillers. After photographs are taken, an anesthetic cream is applied for about fifteen minutes and then Renuva is injected into the treatment area. Renuva produces an increase in fat volume equalling roughly one-third to one-half of the amount of product that’s injected.
Some volume is noticed immediately but it slowly increases over the following months. Increasing volume from the new fat cells tends to become visible starting about three months after a treatment in most people. Maximum results occur at about six months. Since there is some variability among individuals in the amount of fat produced by Renuva®, two or three small treatments are recommended, done at least three months apart, to avoid over-correction.
Most Renuva® patients experience some swelling and mild tenderness in the treated areas for a few days to a week. In rare cases, tenderness can last several weeks.
Unlike hyaluronic acid fillers, Renuva® can’t be dissolved, so it’s recommended that you try a temporary filler to the area you’re considering for Renuva® first, to make sure you like the results.
Prices for Renuva® treatments start at $995 and the total cost is based on the amount used.
If you’d like to learn more about whether Renuva® is the best treatment option for your appearance goals, you can book a consultation here or call us at 727.571.1923.