Vampire Facelift

The Vampire Facelift®, often mistakenly called a Vampire facial, is a non-surgical facelift procedure that lifts the lines of your face, restores the fullness of youth, and brightens skin tone — all at the same time.

Youthful, Rejuvenated Skin

The Vampire Facelift® at Regenerative Medicine & Biologics Institute is a procedure for individuals who want healthy, youthful, and rejuvenated skin quickly, permanently, and without surgery. 

The Vampire Facelift® is not a surgical facelift, but a type of skin treatment using the body’s own natural healing and growth factors that are derived from your own blood, combined with a hyaluronic acid dermal filler. The procedure is a painless series of injections into strategic areas of the face to reduce wrinkles, add youthful volume, and improve the quality of skin.

Reduce Wrinkles - Improve Skin 

With this procedure, fine lines, texture, skin quality and integrity are improved.

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Vampire Facelift® Procedure

There are three steps to the Vampire Facelift® procedure.

Hyaluronic Acid-based Filler

Restylane® or Juvéderm® is injected precisely in target areas to help sculpt a younger appearing, yet natural-looking face. While injecting filler, our expert team considers the mathematics of beauty as defined by much research to avoid creating an unnatural shape.

Blood Collection

After using injectable fillers to achieve a more youthful appearance, we will perform a standard blood draw (approximately 2 teaspoons). Your blood will be run through a centrifuge to separate and isolate PRP, that is also known as growth factors which have been identified to help heal damaged tissue. These growth factors have been known to work to cause increased collagen and improved blood flow to the tissue. They are derived from the amniotic tissues of a living human donor and injected into the injured area to repair tissue and reduce inflammation.

Administer PRP

Once we have isolated the PRP created from the previous step, our team will then strategically administer it to key areas using a small needle. These growth factors then activate multipotent cells already in the skin, enabling them to generate newer and younger tissue.

** Injection techniques vary as some cases require to inject filler first, followed by injections of PRP — while others inject PRP first. Some inject PRP deep into the skin, while others inject more superficially.

To reduce discomfort, Regenerative Medicine & Biologics Institute will apply a numbing cream. While the numbing cream takes effect, the RMBI team will draw your blood and spin it through a centrifuge to isolate your platelet-rich plasma from your red blood cells. The HA filler lifts specifically treated areas, which helps restore a more youthful and natural structure to the face. And the addition of PRP starts the magical process of turning the back the clock to youthful skin.

A good candidate for Vampire Facelift® is if you have no severe skin conditions and are in good health. This procedure is only performed on certain parts of your face, since it requires a small amount of your blood. The best candidates for PRP, or platelet-rich plasma, injections are those with loose, folded skin — in which the skin wrinkles and folds due to poor underlying support and brittle surface tissue.

Some of the facial flaws that this procedure corrects include:

  • Surgical and acne scars
  • Skin lesions
  • Dermis thinning
  • Fine line and coarse wrinkles
  • Substantial connective tissue strength loss leading to drooping

Vampire Facelift® are considered safe, but there can be serious risks when they’re done by an inexperienced injector. Dr. Charles Runels, inventor of Vampire treatments, asserts that anyone who uses the “Vampire” name agrees to follow a standardized set of practices. It’s important to find an experienced injector who’s very knowledgeable about facial anatomy, such as a board-certified dermatologist, plastic surgeon, or facial plastic surgeon.

The Vampire Facelift® procedure only takes about an hour to complete, and that includes the blood draw, preparation of the PRP, platelet-rich fibrin matrix. The Vampire Facelift® has little to no downtime, so you should be able to go back to work the next day. You’ll likely have mild bruising, tenderness, and swelling for a week or two due to the filler. Applying ice or a cold compress intermittently after injections can help ease the swelling.

Since skin renewal and rejuvenation is using the body’s own active regeneration components, facial skin renewal is continual for about 3 months after the procedure. The overall effects of the Vampire Facelift® can last for over a year.

Dermal fillers create immediate volume, so you’ll see a difference right away. Your real results will become apparent as the swelling subsides and the effects of the PRP and fillers start to kick in within two weeks. The skin will continue to improve for up to three months after the procedure as collagen and elastin production picks up and blood flow increases.

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Treatment

What can I expect?

Following the procedure, you may experience pain, bruising, and swelling, but the downtime is minimal. Vampire facial results are not permanent, so maintenance treatments are recommended at least once a year. All in all, vampire facials are not as scary as they sound and are a great way to see results fast.
 

How long does it last?

You'll see immediate plumping results from the filler, and the glow and evenness from PRP will be visible after 2 to 3 weeks. Results aren't permanent and will typically last for 1 year and as long as 18 months.

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