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Im just now seeing this and wanted to chime in. Regarding your choice of product
HA is definitely the safest and I will always put safety as priority over everything else. If something has high efficacy and lower safety I would choose the safer option first, in my opinion. Fat transfer becoming lumpy is usually due to injector technique. So an experienced injector will have less of these issues. Also mild irregularity with fat transfer can be corrected with
Renuva which a product that you can inject to grow your own fat. Regarding
PMMA, you are right. After 20 years no one knows how that will look like. I’ve seen it look great in the face for the first 10-20 years and then as the body ages and the fat compartments
Atrophy and shift, the
PMMA can “stand out” and look like some abnormal growth. So it did its job originally but later did not look good.
HA is easier to dissolve but if you woke up one day and wanted it all gone that would still be a big challenge especially with products like Voluma or Volux which are my two favorite HAs to use. The
HA molecules are very tightly crosslinked which has the advantage of giving a longer duration. When they say “easy to dissolve” what that means is if there is a small area of irregularity or “lump” you can easily take that down with dissolving agent.
PMMA is a different beast. These are basically microscopic glass beads that are permanently inert in your body. Removing large amounts do require surgery. However if there is a small lump or
Nodule those can easily be remedied with a steroid/5FU injection. With that being said, I mostly perform
HA injections in my office.
Seems like your expectations are very reasonable. Based on your goal 5.9-6.3 that is approx 10% increase. In someone that had a shorter length that can easily be accomplished with maybe 10 ml or product. Since your length is higher than average you have more “real estate” to cover (essentially more surface area) that would definitely require more product. My estimate would be that you would need between 20-30 ml of product over a few sessions.
Duration varies from person to person but the average I see for Voluma in the face is 1-1.5 years, despite their claim of 2 years. I do see much longer duration in the penis compared to the face and would say it can for sure last 2 years or more.
Hope this helps with your research and journey.
Dr. T