Ellansé™

The Natural Filler

Make sure you look your best at any age – restore lost volume and shape with natural-looking results that last up to 4 years

Ellansé™ is unique in being the first and only dermal filler that is a biostimulator of collagen. In skilled hands it can be used as a cost-effective alternative to traditional dermal fillers to produce immediate, natural results lasting up to 4 years.

How it works

Ellansé™ works differently from traditional fillers. It gives an immediate correction of lost volume, just like a traditional dermal filler. But it also acts as a biostimulator, continuing to produce long-lasting and natural results by enhancing the body’s own natural collagen reserves.

By helping to replenish you own facial collagen and restore lost volume, it can give a fuller, more natural look that can last for up to 4 years before the full effect is lost.

Ellansé™ is made of polycaprolactone (PCL), which is a well known medical polymer that has also been used for many years safely in medical implants and other devices. It also comprises of microspheres of PCL suspended in a natural gel carrier CMC, which gives Ellansé™ its unique property of immediate correction of lost volume followed by gradual and long-lasting collagen production.

Ellansé™ is totally biocompatible and biodegradable, and was developed by AQTIS Medical in Holland from non-animal and non-human sources.

Who is it effective for?

Ellansé™ can be used in both men and women when changes associated with ageing start to become apparent.

When you are in your late 20s, collagen production starts slowing down. Smoking and excessive UV light exposure will further decrease the body’s ability to produce new collagen. This can be an ideal time to start Ellansé™ for anyone showing signs of volume loss to keep the collagen reserves active or as alternative to traditional dermal fillers. Often only small amounts of product need to be used, for results lasting up to 4 years.

In your 30s and 40s, collagen will be lost in the skin. You may experience loss of facial fat and shrinking of some of the skull bones, which results in increasing laxity of the skin and causes lines and wrinkles, flattening of the cheeks, under eye hollows and hollowing at the temples. This will often leave a tired or unhealthy appearance due to the change in facial shape. Ellansé™ is an ideal product for a whole face treatment aiming to reduce the signs of ageing by gradually and naturally by restoring depleted volume, improving skin thickness and elasticity.

What does treatment involve?

During your initial consultation, your Consultant Plastic Surgeon Mata will use her extensive experience and knowledge to fully assess the degree of volume loss and skin laxity that you may have. She is then able to advise you on the most suitable treatment you are likely to need for full restoration to achieve your desired goals.

Mata will also advise you on lifestyle and other factors, such as smoking cessation and the use of medically active skin care products, which will enhance the response to your treatment.

Day of treatment

With Ellansé™, usually only one treatment is needed for volume correction. 

Ellansé™ is mixed with local anaesthetic (lidocaine 2%) before injecting into the required area to be treated.

When combined with topical anaesthetic cream on the skin the procedure is relatively pain free and usually extremely well tolerated.

There may be slight swelling and mild discomfort in the treated areas for up to 24 hours following Ellansé™.

Swelling that lasts longer than 1 to 2 days is uncommon (1 episode per 1000 patients) but always fully resolves with a week in most cases. Bruising is possible but is not common. It usually resolves within a week and easily covered by makeup in most cases.

Most patients return to work or normal activities within a day after treatment.

Following treatment with Ellansé™ as with other dermal fillers the general advice is to avoid facial massage or other beauty treatments for the first few days after your treatment.

Makeup can be applied immediately following treatment if desired.

Following treatment

Ellansé™ is both a dermal filler and a biostimulatory agent so the correction of volume is seen immediately.

The stimulation of new collagen can take up to 3 months for the full results to be achieved. At this stage most patients will see an improved appearance of the skin with a reduction of fine lines and winkles due to a restoration of the natural collagen and elasticity of the skin.

Ellansé™ is unique in that it has predictable and tunable bioresorption from between 1 and 4 years depending on which Ellansé™ product is used.

This unique, tunable longevity of the product allows options for personalized and tailored treatment tailored to your needs and goals.

Treatment areas

Ellansé™ can be used in the backs of hands to restore volume loss and give a more youthful appearance and the décolletage (upper chest) to restore skin thickness and reduce lines and wrinkles often associated with ageing and excessive sun exposure.

It can also be used for improving acne scars and other deep scars on the body by stimulating new healthy collagen within the skin.

Practitioner & Treatment Pricing

Consultations

To find out how Ellansé™ could help you, contact us to arrange your consultation. The cost of a consultation is £50.00 which is redeemable against the treatment cost should you proceed (meaning the consultation effectively becomes free and part of the treatment plan).