Selphyl finds a way to facinate me and gross me out, all in one event!

After seeing my previous post on Selphyl, the nice folks at Canderm were kind enough to invite me to an event they had a few weeks ago to introduce Toronto plastic surgeons and media types to the product.  It involved a presentation with a slide show, Q&A and a live demonstration! Knowing how squeamish I am you are probably wondering why I would subject myself to this - good question!  I don't know - why do people slow down at accidents?  You know (and secretly hope) it might be gross but you just can't help but look!

The presentation was given by Dr. Anthony P. Sclafani, Director of Facial Plastic Surgery and a Surgeon Director at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and while I will admit that a lot the presentation was full of medical jargon that I didn't really understand, I got the gist of it and luckily there were lots of pictures, most of which I could actually look at!  I also really appreciated that the word plasma was substituted for the "b" word!  It was especially interesting to learn about all the places where Selphyl can be used including: full face resurfacing, skin depressions, nasolabial folds, hands, acne scars, rhinoplasties, for scar prevention and in combination with fat to prolong the durability of corrections.

The live demo was done by Dr. Trevor Born, a board certified cosmetic surgeon from Toronto who has used Selphyl quite extensively on his patients and had lots of insight on it's use and results.  Fortunately I was sitting far enough back that I couldn't see too clearly but as far as I could tell, the patient didn't look too traumatized!

Overall I have to say I am pretty impressed with the whole idea of Selphyl - I'm vain, I know I'll be using a filler eventually and I like the idea of it being a natural product with no synthetic or animal-derived materials.

I'll tell you what's really freaky - being in a room full of plastic surgeons!  You wonder if they are looking at you and thinking about all the things they would change about you...

- Lisamarie -

Selphyl gets your body working for you instead of against you to fight aging!

George Carlin had a whole routine around the 7 words you can never say on television.  I'm a little easier going then that, there are only 3 words that you can never say in my presence - panties, clip and blood - I don't know what it is about them but they just make me cringe!  Panties is always underwear or knickers, clip is cut and blood is that red stuff that I don't talk about because just thinking about it makes me want to faint or vomit or both, needless to say I am hopeless when it comes to needles and I don't get involved with red stuff drives.  I bring this up because I am now going to discuss a new cosmetic filler  - Selphyl - that is actually made up from your very own red stuff!  Normally I would avoid this topic like the plague but you know how fascinated I am by plastic surgery and my fascination is fighting my revulsion and winning!

Now we've talked about fillers before and how they help you regain the youthful "plumpness" that your face loses as you age which up to now has been done with fillers with synthetic or animal-derived materials.  Selphyl, on the other hand, uses human growth factors harvested from our own red stuff to rebuild tissue and erase the signs of years gone by.  The Selphyl system fills in wrinkles, skin depressions and even helps prevent scars.  Selphyl's technology is different from conventional fillers as it works by promoting collagenesis and vascularization to repair tissues instead of filling depressions.  The procedure starts with one or two teaspoons of red stuff being collected from the patient.  The red stuff is then placed in a special patented centrifuge which has been designed and optimized to prepare a Platelet-Rich Fibrin Matrix (PRFM) by separating the red and white red stuff cells from the plasma containing the platelets.  The platelets are the key to tissue regeneration and Selphyl's patented system ensures that intact and viable platelets are injected back into your body.  Platelets are rich in human growth factors and release natural regenerating factors over time by stimulating fibroblasts in order to reconstitute the extracellular matrix of the skin, promoting tissue repair, cell growth and collagen production.

What does all of this science-babble actually mean?  Well simply put: the procedure allows the cells in your body to talk to each other and gets your body's own natural healing system to do all the work! And it's pretty easy - 20 minutes, no downtime and results are visible within 3 weeks and have been proven to last for over 12 months.  You can call  1-800-465-3376 to find a qualified doctor in your area or if you are in the GTA the very cute (and qualified) Dr. Cory Torgerson can hook you up!  You can find his website here.  You can also check out the Selphyl website to see other before and after pictures.  You'll notice the results are subtle, but make such a big difference in how the women look afterwards!

If they could find a way to extract my red stuff without aid of a needle, I would totally be all over this!  Or maybe I could just get really drunk before - I'll have to find out if that would be a problem...

- Lisamarie -