SOFT TISSUE ENHANCEMENT WITH ADVANTA


Lip Enhancement with Advanta

Advanta is a product used to fill out soft tissue defects and enhance lips. Defects that are softened include the nose-lip groove and marionette lines.  This material is expanded polytetrafluoroethelyne also known as Goretex (cheek and chin implants). It is perfectly safe in the body. For over twenty years it has been used to replace arteries, in artificial heart valves and mesh for hernia repairs among other applications. It takes only a few minutes to insert the device. Dr.Truswell is the designer of the insertion device for Advanta and is identified as having the greatest experience with this type of implant on the East Coast.

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