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Poly-L-Lactic Acid

Professional procedure · not a routine ingredient

A biocompatible, biodegradable synthetic polymer administered by a licensed healthcare professional as a dermal biostimulator, inducing a controlled subclinical tissue response to stimulate endogenous collagen synthesis.

GentlenessGentleness is scored for skin-contact use only. Professional procedures are not scored. See how we verify EvidenceIndicative
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POLYLACTIC ACID

Also called PLLA · Poly-L-Lactic Acid · Poly(L-lactide) · PLLA-SCA · Sculptra

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This ingredient page is still early. We're actively researching before it's ready to stand fully on its own — check back as more sections are verified.

The short answer

Four lines, each compressed from the section it links to. Every line carries the sources of the claim it compresses.

How it is given

Poly-L-Lactic Acid is not applied as a skincare step. This is what the record says about how it is administered.

This is not a step in a skincare routine. It is a professional procedure. Nothing here is a recommendation to have it.

Is this safe for me

Everything the record says about suitability, consolidated. Pause-first comes first.

Pause first

  • active skin infection
  • acute inflammation
  • history of keloid scarring
  • autoimmune connective tissue disease

Pause means check first, not never.

Before you start

Requires precise clinical reconstitution and sub-dermal injection technique by trained medical professionals. Post-injection massage is required to prevent the formation of subcutaneous papules or non-inflammatory nodules.

Pregnancy and breastfeeding

Not medical advice · ask your own clinician

Pregnancy. Contraindicated during pregnancy as aesthetic clinical trials exclude pregnant individuals, and elective biostimulatory procedures should be postponed.

Breastfeeding. Contraindicated during breastfeeding; elective biostimulatory procedures should be deferred until lactation is complete.

Allergen history

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Who should not use it

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The evidence

One card per claim. Concentration, form, population and limitation sit with it, always visible.

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Open

The headline facial-volume-restoration claim's cited PMID resolves to an unrelated nasal-reconstruction surgical-flap paper, and the shared source for the neocollagenesis claim, while real, is misattributed: its own actual finding is a long-term retrospective volumetric-imaging study, not the gene-expression trial the packet describes.

Open

The long-term tissue-remodeling claim's second cited source resolves to an unrelated foot-fracture CT-imaging paper.

How we verify
The clinical recordHow it works · Forms · Manufacturing · Regulations · Study ledger · Gaps · Sources

What the evidence rests on

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What is still missing

  • The headline facial-volume-restoration claim's cited PMID resolves to an unrelated nasal-reconstruction surgical-flap paper, and the shared source for the neocollagenesis claim, while real, is misattributed: its own actual finding is a long-term retrospective volumetric-imaging study, not the gene-expression trial the packet describes.

    Neither of the packet's two headline claims has an independently verifiable, correctly-attributed source. Both are withheld pending regeneration.

    NeedsA corrected packet with citations that resolve to the papers whose actual findings match what is claimed.

  • The long-term tissue-remodeling claim's second cited source resolves to an unrelated foot-fracture CT-imaging paper.

    Same as above -- withheld pending regeneration.

    NeedsA corrected packet with citations that resolve to the papers whose actual findings match what is claimed.

Sources on file

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