What is the long-term safety of ArteFill?
Artes Medical recently completed a follow-up study of patients from the controlled clinical study that began in 1999. These patients were followed over a 5-year period after treatment. Independent expert observers rated photographs of patient wrinkles at five years compared to before treatment and six months after treatment. The physician investigators of this follow-up study concluded that ArteFill safely maintains significant correction of smile lines for at least five years post-treatment. Results of this study have been submitted to the FDA as well as a peer-reviewed journal which is expected to publish the results soon. No other dermal filler company has submitted a five-year follow-up study of its safety and effectiveness to the FDA.
