Thread lifts

PDO PLLA PCL thread lifts represent a significant advancement in non-surgical aesthetic treatments, offering practitioners effective solutions for facial and body rejuvenation and remodeling. This category offers a rigorous selection of absorbable threads, designed to stimulate collagen production and provide an immediate or progressive lifting effect.

Understanding Thread Lifts: Mechanism and Benefits

Thread lifts are absorbable medical devices inserted under the skin to create a support mesh and induce neocollagenesis. Their action is based on two main principles:

• Mechanical lifting effect: The threads, especially those with cogs or cones, allow for repositioning of sagging tissues, offering an immediate lifting effect.
• Collagen stimulation: The presence of subcutaneous threads triggers a natural response from the body, stimulating the production of new collagen and elastin. This process improves skin quality, firmness, and elasticity in the long term.

These treatments are particularly indicated for correcting mild to moderate skin laxity, redefining the contours of the face (oval, eyebrows), neck, and certain body areas, without resorting to major surgical intervention.

The Different Types of Thread Lifts: PDO, PLLA, and PCL

The selection of the thread type is crucial and depends on the treatment objectives, the area to be treated, and the patient's characteristics. The most commonly used materials are Polydioxanone (PDO), Poly-L-Lactic Acid (PLLA), and Polycaprolactone (PCL).

Polydioxanone (PDO) Threads

PDO threads are among the most widely used. Polydioxanone is a biocompatible and fully absorbable polymer, used in surgery for many years. Their absorption generally takes between 6 and 9 months, during which they actively stimulate collagen production.

• Types:
  • Monofilaments: Used to improve skin texture and stimulate collagen without a major lifting effect.
  • Barbed threads (Cog): Equipped with barbs or cogs to anchor tissues and create a significant lifting effect.
  • Screw/Spring threads: Often used for volume and stimulation in specific areas.
• Indications: Global rejuvenation, texture improvement, light lifting of the cheeks, neck, eyebrows.

Poly-L-Lactic Acid (PLLA) Threads

PLLA threads are known for their ability to induce strong collagen stimulation, with more lasting effects than PDO threads. Poly-L-Lactic Acid is also a biocompatible and absorbable polymer, known for its use in injectable collagen stimulators. Their absorption is slower, extending over 12 to 18 months, thus prolonging the period of neocollagenesis.

• Indications: Facial and body lifting, restoration of lost volume, long-term improvement of skin firmness.
• Benefits: Progressive and very natural results, increased durability.

Polycaprolactone (PCL) Threads

PCL threads represent the latest generation of absorbable threads, offering the longest resorption duration, generally between 18 and 24 months. Polycaprolactone is a very flexible and resistant polymer, which allows for better tissue integration and increased patient comfort. Like other materials, PCL intensely stimulates collagen production.

• Indications: Durable lifting, improvement of skin elasticity, treatment of areas requiring prolonged support.
• Benefits: Flexibility, resistance, maximum durability of results.

Choosing the Right Thread Lifts for Your Patients

The choice of thread lifts must be adapted to each patient and each indication. Practitioners should consider several factors:

• Skin condition and degree of laxity: Determines the need for a mechanical lifting effect or predominant collagen stimulation.
• Area to be treated: The face, neck, décolleté, or body require specific thread types and insertion techniques.
• Patient expectations: Desired duration of results, expected level of correction.
• Thread type: Monofilament, barbed, screw, depending on the desired effect (tension, volume, firming).
• Material: PDO, PLLA, PCL, depending on the resorption duration and desired collagen stimulation.

Filler Distribution is committed to providing a comprehensive range of high-quality PDO PLLA PCL thread lifts from recognized manufacturers, enabling aesthetic professionals to offer safe and effective treatments to their patients.