June 04, 2026 | Injectables
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A patient sat down in my office last week, slid her phone across the desk with our June flyer on the screen, and asked me a version of the best question I get. “If you were spending the money, which one of these would you pick, and why.”
She did not want to be sold. She wanted the read I would give a family member. So I gave it to her, and I am writing it down here because the three specials on the June board are each built for a different person, and the differences are worth understanding before anyone books.
The flyer says Renew, Restore, Revive. In plain terms that is a Sculptra package at $1,725 for three vials, a microneedling with PRP/PRF package at $1,500, and a complimentary gift with the purchase of three medical-grade skincare products. All three run at both of our El Paso locations, the Eastside office on George Dieter and the Westside office on Silver Springs. None of them require a surgical consult. All of them sit on top of the same medical infrastructure my surgical practice runs on.
Here is the read I gave her, written out the way I wish I had time to do in the room.
Renew. The Sculptra package, three vials, $1,725.
I tell patients all the time that fillers are a tax. So I want to be precise about why the first special on this list, which involves a needle and a syringe, is not what I mean when I say that.
Sculptra is not a filler in the way most people use the word. It is a collagen biostimulator. The active ingredient is poly-L-lactic acid, a material that has been used safely in medicine for decades in dissolvable sutures and other implants. When it is injected into the deep dermis, it does not add volume the way a hyaluronic acid gel does. Instead it prompts your own fibroblasts to produce new collagen over a period of weeks and months. The volume that appears is your own tissue.
That distinction is the whole reason I like it.
A hyaluronic acid filler is a product sitting in your face that your body slowly metabolizes, which is why you have to keep rebuying it. Sculptra recruits your own biology to rebuild the collagen scaffold that thins with age. One approach rents volume. The other helps you grow it. For the right patient, that is a fundamentally better proposition, and it is closer in spirit to how I think about the face than a syringe-by-syringe filler habit ever will be.
The package is three vials at $1,725, and the package structure matters because Sculptra is meant to be done as a series. Most patients restoring global facial volume do best with the vials spread across more than one session, spaced several weeks apart, so the collagen builds in layers and the result looks gradual rather than sudden. Committing to the package means committing to the full protocol at a better price than buying vial by vial, which is the most common way patients short-change their own result.
Two honest points of patient counseling I give every Sculptra candidate.
First, this is a slow treatment by design. There is very little to see on the day of injection, and the meaningful change arrives around the eight to twelve week mark and continues to refine after that. A patient who needs to look different for an event two weeks out is not a Sculptra candidate for that event, and I will say so. Started now, the result matures across the back half of summer, which is exactly why June is a sensible month to begin.
Second, technique with this product is not optional. Sculptra must be reconstituted properly, allowed adequate hydration time, and placed in the correct tissue plane with appropriate massage afterward, or a patient risks nodules. This is precisely the kind of treatment that should be performed under real physician supervision, which is what the package at our Med Spa provides.
Restore. Microneedling with PRP/PRF, $1,500.
Years ago I wrote a piece about vampire facials that is still one of the most-read things I have published. The treatment on this part of the June board is the clinical, grown-up version of exactly that idea.
Microneedling with PRP or PRF works in two coordinated steps. First, we draw a small volume of the patient’s own blood and process it in a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets and the growth factors they carry. That concentrate is the platelet-rich plasma, or in the newer preparation, platelet-rich fibrin, which forms a soft scaffold that releases those growth factors more gradually and over a longer window. Second, we use a medical microneedling device to create thousands of controlled microchannels in the skin, and we apply the patient’s own concentrate so those growth factors reach the deeper layers where the repair happens.
The microneedling on its own initiates a wound-healing cascade and a fresh collagen response. The growth factors amplify that response. Across a series, the visible payoff is improved texture, a refinement in the appearance of pores, softening of fine lines, and a genuine luminosity that reflects new collagen rather than a passing flush.
I like this treatment for a few specific reasons. It uses the patient’s own biological material, so there is nothing foreign introduced. It complements Sculptra well, because one is working on surface quality while the other rebuilds deep structural collagen, and a patient can reasonably pursue both. And the $1,500 package price is structured around a series, because a single session is pleasant while a series is what actually changes the skin.
One caution carries extra weight in June. Freshly microneedled skin is temporarily more vulnerable to the sun, and an El Paso summer is unforgiving. Diligent sun protection and shade between sessions are mandatory, not suggestions, because the alternative is a pigment problem that undoes the benefit.
Revive. A complimentary gift with the purchase of three skincare products.
This is the least dramatic special on the board and, in some ways, the one I most want patients to take seriously.
The mechanics are simple. Purchase three medical-grade skincare products and a complimentary gift is included. The reason I am willing to attach my name to a skincare promotion is that topical skincare is the foundation underneath everything else on this page, and it is the step patients most often neglect.
A patient can biostimulate collagen with Sculptra, resurface with microneedling, and then quietly erode the result by using poorly formulated products and skipping daily sun protection. Medical-grade skincare is not simply a drugstore product with nicer packaging. It generally contains higher, clinically meaningful concentrations of the active ingredients that actually change skin, including a true retinoid, a properly formulated vitamin C antioxidant, and a medical-grade sunscreen, designed to penetrate the skin barrier rather than rest on the surface.
Three well-chosen products, matched to a patient’s skin and used consistently, are the most cost-effective anti-aging on this entire list. The gift is simply the incentive to finally build the daily routine that protects every other dollar spent.
A clean side-by-side
| Special | What it is | Investment | Best for |
| Renew | Sculptra collagen biostimulator | $1,725 (3 vials) | Rebuilding your own collagen gradually over the summer, the long-game patient |
| Restore | Microneedling with PRP/PRF | $1,500 | Texture, pores, fine lines, and luminosity from your own growth factors |
| Revive | Gift with 3 skincare products | Complimentary gift | Building the daily medical-grade routine that protects every other treatment |
Where the work is done
The Med Spa at Southwest Plastic Surgery operates out of two El Paso locations. The Eastside office is at 1387 George Dieter Drive, Building C, El Paso, Texas 79936. The Westside office is at 5925 Silver Springs Drive, Suite C, El Paso, Texas 79912. The June specials run at both. The protocols, the products, and the supervising physician are the same regardless of which side of town a patient prefers.
About the supervision
I am Frank Agullo, MD, FACS, double board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a Mayo Clinic plastic surgery fellowship alum. I serve as Clinical Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Affiliate Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. I have been named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for thirteen consecutive years. The Med Spa at Southwest Plastic Surgery runs under my license and on protocols I have written. That is the bar, and it is the reason I am comfortable putting my name on a Sculptra package and a vial of a patient’s own platelets.
For a more editorial read on the same three specials, see my piece on drworldwide.com: Collagen Season: The June Med Spa Specials I’d Actually Book.
Ready to talk?
To book any of the June specials at our Eastside (1387 George Dieter Building C) or Westside (5925 Silver Springs Suite C) Med Spa, call (915) 590-7907. For surgical or combined consults, call my main office at (915) 590-7900, text 1-866-814-0038, or book online at agulloplasticsurgery.com/appointments. Follow me at @RealDrWorldWide on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat, @Agullo on X, or @AgulloPlasticSurgery on Facebook. #StayBeautiful
