According to one study, 30% of women under the age of 35 use anti-wrinkle products regularly. This includes one in five women younger than 24. In your quest to find smoother, younger-looking skin, there are many products, solutions, and filler treatments to try.
One of those is EZ Gel Filler.
This is a 100% natural dermal filler that uses a unique resource to reduce puffiness, wrinkles, and fine lines on your face: your own blood source.
Today, we’re sharing how this process works, the benefits it provides, and how to start your treatment as soon as possible.
What Is EZ Gel Filler?
EZ Gel Filler is unlike any skin filler on the market today. It harnesses the incredible power of your body’s own proteins to produce significant, noticeable effects. This means you don’t have to rely on any type of artificial ingredients to achieve transformative skin rejuvenation.
This all-natural filler is regenerative, restorative, and volumizing, using your own blood to help your skin appear plumper and more youthful. From your blood source, your physicians can obtain two important elements:
- Serum albumin
- Growth factors
Albumin is a type of protein that your liver makes. It’s recognized as one of the most abundant proteins in your blood.
Your body needs adequate levels of albumin to prevent fluid from leaking out of your blood vessels. Not only does it contain vital nutrients and hormones, but it also provides your body with the necessary proteins it requires to keep growing and repairing your tissues.
Growth factors are hormone-like substances that encourage your cells to divide and develop. For instance, they help your bone marrow create new blood cells and also increase the number of white blood cells and stem cells in your blood. While your body can create them on its own, growth factors can also be made in a lab.
How Does It Work?
To understand how EZ Gel Filler works, it helps to review a quick biology lesson, first. Scientists know that the human body naturally creates volumizing proteins and rejuvenating growth factors to heal itself. While these components are meant to be restorative in nature, they can also be cosmetically enhancing when leveraged correctly.
This filler relies on a new type of technology that uses your own blood to catalyze the production of the aforementioned proteins and growth factors. The treatment stimulates your body’s natural regenerative process, which leads to the production of new, diverse cell types and tissues.
To create the filler, your physicians will begin with a whole blood sample from your own body. Then, they will perform a centrifugation and heating process that allows them to isolate the albumin and growth factors they need.
In the process, they will also isolate a compound called fibrin — a fibrous protein that helps your blood clot. This is why the treatment is officially called EZ PRF (platelet-rich fibrin).
The result is an innovative substance called plasma gel that’s uniquely flexible in consistency. Its texture allows the gel to easily adapt to the area of treatment. In addition to the initial results, you’ll notice the effects for a sustained period of time because the growth factors have an extended-release timeframe.
Which Areas Can I Treat With EZ Gel Filler?
EZ Gel filler treatments are versatile in nature and can be used to help treat a variety of skin concerns. A few of the most common applications include:
- Enhancing skin volume
- Adjusting skin symmetry
- Rejuvenating skin appearance
- Shrinking pores
- Stimulating collagen production
- Reducing visible signs of aging (e.g. fine lines, wrinkles, sagging skin)
- Reducing the appearance of acne scars
Physicians can apply the EZ Gel filler treatment to myriad areas on and around your face. One place that many clients prefer to treat is the skin right below the eyes. This treatment can help smooth under-eye bags and reduce any puffiness that might be present.
In addition, other common treatment areas include:
- Cheeks
- Jawline
- Lips
- Smoker lines (vertical lines around the mouth)
- Marionette lines (vertical lines around the chin)
- Nasolabial folds (vertical lines that travel from the sides of your nose to the corners of your mouth)
When you attend your initial consultation, your physician will review the problem areas in your complexion, and listen to your concerns. Then, they will recommend appropriate areas of treatment. Some patients even use EZ PRF along their hairline to stimulate hair growth!
EZ Gel Filler vs. Traditional PRP and PRFM
In the skincare realm, there are two medical aesthetic treatments that are similar in certain ways to EZ Gel filler: Platelet-rich Plasma (PRP) and Platelet-Rich Fibrin Matrix (PRFM).
Let’s take a look at a few of the reasons why EZPRF is the best solution.
More Cells
EZPRF contains more platelets per mcL than PRP or PRFM. In addition, it also has two components that these two treatments do not: leukocytes (WBC) and mesenchymal stem cells. This is because while treatments like PRP use high-speed centrifugation, EZPRF uses low speeds.
Specifically, the creation of PRP requires physicians to spin the blood samples up to six times the G-force of EZPRF. This high-spin method eliminates all of the red blood cells in the sample, pushing them to the bottom with gravitational force. While that approach might work in theory, spinning the blood too fast for too long also eliminates other, valuable cells.
Another reason that EZ Gel filler contains more cells is that the blood collection tubes are 100% natural, devoid of any kind of anticoagulant. This might seem like a small detail, but it ensures that fibrinogen molecules in the blood can successfully convert into fibrin during blood clot formation.
10 Times the Platelets
Compared to PRP and PRFM, EZPRF contains up to 10 times the platelet concentration. As the tubes spin at a very low G-force, the platelet recovery is nearly 100%.
Leukocytes and Mesenchymal Stem Cells
White blood cells, or leukocytes, play an important part in your natural healing process. They’re an important part of the EZPRF formula because they’re the cells directly associated with the body’s inflammatory response. The EZ Gel is rich in leukocytes, as well as mesenchymal stem cells.
These are multipotent cells that help your body create and repair skeletal tissues, such as cartilage, bone, and the fat found in your bone marrow.
Essential Fibrin Scaffold
As the low-speed centrifugation process doesn’t use an anticoagulant, the plasma in your blood sample is allowed to fully clot into fibrin. In turn, this slows the release of the growth factors in your blood, as well as immune-system-signaling proteins called cytokines.
This results in a greater number of cells and growth factors, both of which are kept alive for longer and released for an extended period of time.
Important Benefits of EZ Gel Filler
In addition to the above results, there are other benefits you can expect when you undergo an EZ Gel filler treatment.
First, this is a longer-lasting treatment than many wrinkle-reducing solutions on the market. That’s because the growth factors in the gel are released slowly over time, allowing you to enjoy the results for several months after your treatment. If you’re tired of spending a substantial amount of money on fillers that fade too quickly, this will be a welcome perk.
Second, this treatment is also recognized as one of the safest and most effective, primarily because it uses blood from your own body. The centrifugation and heating process doesn’t require any additional chemicals or modifications, making this a natural way to achieve the skin you want.
What to Expect
Most physicians recommend attending at least two sessions of EZ Gel filler, allowing around six to eight weeks of healing time between each appointment. You may need up to four treatments to see the results you desire.
To create the EZ gel filler, your physician will follow a three-step process, described below.
- Step 1: Collect the blood sample
- Step 2: Place the tubes in the centrifuge
- Step 3: Select the appropriate preset settings and spin
Once they have the blood sample they need, they can proceed with the treatment and create your custom filler. As soon as they inject the filler under your skin, it will quickly fuse with the surrounding tissues and begin to take effect.
Most treatments take around one hour and recovery time is usually minimal. Allergic reactions are uncommon, as the treatment uses your own blood without the use of any synthetic ingredients. While you might feel a slight discomfort at the site of the injection, it should not last longer than two days.
Learn More About EZ Gel Filler Treatments Today
Are you looking for a natural, effective way to restore a more youthful appearance to your skin? If so, EZ Gel Filler may be an ideal treatment.
This innovative process relies on the incredible power of your own blood, with specific healing components isolated for maximum results. At Desert Wellness Center, we’re excited to offer this treatment to our clients, right in our Tempe, AZ office.
Our licensed naturopathic physicians are trained in every area of medical aesthetics, including this solution. To learn more about EZ PRF, contact us today to schedule a free, 15-minute consultation.