[PTFEe in the treatment of facial wrinkles]

The first signs of skin aging appear quite early, around 30 years of age, and show as glabella and facial wrinkles particularly pronounced around the eye, lips and nasolabial area. None of these imperfections can be expressively modified through a cervicofacial rhytidectomy (facelift). The use of PTFEe in reconstructive surgery has been established by years of positive experience; therefore, the well known characteristics of such material suggested the idea of extending its use to aesthetic surgery. The corrections performed with this material are carried out mostly as day hospital surgery in local anaesthesia, requiring, however, technical skill to obtain satisfying results.