Dr. Shervin NaderiFacial Plastic Surgeon specializing in Rhinoplasty & Anti-aging as well as Facial Balancing Botox & Filler Injections

how much product is in 1 syringe of juvederm or restylane

16 Dec 2014 · 2 min

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Dr. Shervin Naderi shows what's actually in a dermal filler syringe. One cc equals one-fifth of a teaspoon. FDA trials found patients got about 7 cc of Voluma on average, with some receiving up to 14 cc total.

Questions this video answers

5 cc (one teaspoon).

One cc is one-fifth of a teaspoon.

About seven syringes (7 cc) per patient on average.

Up to 14 cc.

Normally Restylane comes in 1 cc syringes; the speaker had 2 cc Restylane syringes for demonstration.

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Hi, good morning. We're going to demonstrate what each cc of filler is. We get a lot of patients that require 1cc of injectable and that's not a big deal. Most injectables come in 1 cc vials or syringes, but many, many patients require 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 10 cc's or more. The Jupiter and Voluma FDA approval trials that were done on average, each patient got about seven syringes of Voluma, which is 7 cc. The range was anywhere up to 14 cc's. When you tell that to patients, a lot of times they're actually quite shocked and they think it's a lot. One cc is one fifth of a teaspoon, A teaspoon is five cc's so one cc is really nothing. Even if you did five syringes, it's still only a teaspoon. So I'm going to demonstrate that. We have two CC syringes of Restylane. These have expired, so we're not going to use it on patients. And I want to demonstrate how much it is. Normally Restylane comes in 1 cc, but we had a shipment of 2 cc's a while back that we just never used. I prefer the 1cc vials. The way they inject is a lot smoother, a lot easier to inject. So I'm going to show you what the two cc's are. So this is 2 cc. This is 2 cc, total is 4 cc, which would be four normal 1 cc syringes. So let's see how that is. You can also see the consistency of them. So if we get the camera in, I'm going to show you comes in a sterile vial. You open it up, you can see it's a much bigger syringe than the normal Restylane. This is a 2cc syringe and if we actually get really close, you can see the consistency of it. So I have a teaspoon and I'm going to start pushing it in there. Can you see it? Well, maybe we can come up closer. Let me show you. And you can see the consistency of it, how it is as well. And actually I'll hold it over the background that you can see better. So here's a consistency. When you get up real close, you can see it's basically almost like toothpaste. Can you see? Well, nice and focused. Cool. So two cc's went in. It's one cc, this is two cc's. So that's two syringes. That's it. Very little. Now you can see that consists of.