APTOS Thread Lifting

APTOS threads are a category of absorbable surgical suture adapted for facial and body lifting, distinguished by micro-hooks or cones moulded into the thread that engage with fibrous connective tissue and allow the practitioner to reposition and mechanically support sagging skin and subcutaneous fat. The APTOS system was developed in Russia in the late 1990s and has become one of the most widely studied thread-lifting systems in the peer-reviewed…

At Artmedica Clinic Prague, MUDr. Kateřina Adamcová is one of only three physicians in the entire Czech Republic who hold the official APTOS trainer certification — a recognition reserved for clinicians who have completed the full APTOS educational curriculum and demonstrated clinical competency at an advanced level. This distinguishes Artmedica as one of the highest-expertise thread-lift centres in the country.

The APTOS threads used at the clinic are made from polylactic acid, polycaprolactone and in some applications hyaluronic acid — all fully biodegradable and biocompatible. The thread body dissolves over twelve to eighteen months; the directional hooks hold the lifted tissue in its new position while the polylactic acid component triggers a fibroblast response that generates new collagen around the thread. This means the collagen scaffolding that forms…