FibroCell Therapy:

This is the next thing in non-surgical aesthetics. It involves taking a small piece of skin from behind the ear [“punch biopsy”] and growing your cells in a culture medium. This produces millions of new cells. Then, these cells are returned back to you with an injection into the skin.
It’s going under the working name of “LAVIV” therapy by Fibrocell Science. Preliminary studies for wrinkles and acne scars have been promising. The company has done Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies, which were placebo controlled, multicenter and randomized [keep in mind…they were not double blinded!]
109 patients received Fibrocell treatment several weeks apart. There was a 43% cosmetic response vs. 18% placebo.

My Take: This is still some time off in the future. If it does work, it will work for fine wrinkles and mild acne scarring. It won’t build the volume that fillers do, but may have a role as an adjunct to filler work. Cost is another issue, and I imagine this won’t be cheap!