Explore
EZ Gel is an injectable prepared from your own blood — platelet-rich fibrin combined with a heated albumin gel. We use it selectively, for the patients it can genuinely help. We work out what is causing the concern before we recommend what should treat it.
An injectable made in the room from your own blood — platelet-rich fibrin combined with a heated albumin gel. Nothing synthetic goes into it.
Selected under-eye hollowing and shadowing, thin or crepey skin, and mild volume and skin-quality changes elsewhere on the face.
Not for brown pigment. Not for true under-eye bags. Not for everybody — and we will tell you which one you are.
Always a series of three, four weeks apart, with a fourth at six months. Maintenance every four to six months after that — sooner if you train hard, have a fast metabolism, or are on a GLP-1.
Every timeframe below is an estimate for a typical patient, not a promise. Yours is confirmed at your visit.
Autologous is the accurate word, and it simply means prepared from your own tissue. Nothing is manufactured, nothing is cross-linked, and nothing is added — the only inputs are your blood, a centrifuge and controlled heat.
That is a genuine advantage and it is also the source of most of the overclaiming you will read elsewhere. Coming from your own body means there is no synthetic material to react to. It does not mean the treatment is risk-free, that it works for everyone, or that it can do what a filler does. Every injection carries risk, and results vary considerably from person to person — including how much usable gel a given blood draw yields.
What EZ Gel is genuinely good at is subtle, gradual support in the right anatomy: a hollow that casts a shadow, or skin that has gone thin and crepey. Where the published evidence on platelet preparations is strongest is exactly there — skin thickness and elasticity. Where it is weakest is pigment and hydration, which is why we do not make claims about either.
The whole process happens while you are in the chair. Here is what is actually going on.
Drawn the same way it would be for any blood test. If needles or blood draws are a problem for you, tell us before the day — it is worth planning around.
Your blood is centrifuged without an anticoagulant, so a natural fibrin scaffold forms and holds the platelets and growth factors in place rather than releasing them all at once.
Part of the plasma is heated — to around 75°C in the manufacturer’s protocol — which changes how the albumin in it behaves and sets it into a gel. Heat only; no chemistry, no cross-linker.
The heated plasma gel is combined with the PRF concentrate. The result is thicker than liquid PRF, which is what allows it to hold a small amount of shape where it is placed.
Placed conservatively, into areas selected during your assessment. Under the eyes in particular, less is the right instinct — the tissue is thin and unforgiving, and it is far easier to add at the next visit than to undo.
“Dark circles” is not one diagnosis. Published dermatologic reviews describe several distinct contributors — pigment, superficial vessels, fluid, skin laxity, thinning and tear-trough shadowing — and they need different treatments. Pick what sounds most like yours.
A hollow under the eye is a structural problem, not a color problem: light falls into a depression at the tear trough and reads as darkness. Support the area and the shadow softens because there is less depression for the light to fall into. This is the presentation where we expect EZ Gel to do something, and where a series usually makes a visible difference.
This is a starting point, not a diagnosis. Under-eye anatomy is genuinely difficult and most people have more than one thing going on — which is exactly why we assess it in person, in consistent light, with photographs. If EZ Gel is not the answer for you, we will say so.
Everything above is enough to decide whether to come in. If you want the reasoning — the comparisons, the limits, and exactly what the treatment involves — start with one of these.
The comparison against everything else we could do instead, what EZ Gel cannot do, and who we turn down.
What the series actually is, what the first two weeks look like, what it pairs with, and the risks in plain English.
Real Skin! patients. Each caption states the number of treatments, the time since the last one, and any other treatment performed alongside — because a combined-treatment photo presented as a single-treatment result is not evidence of anything. Individual results vary.
The cause of the concern decides the treatment, not the other way around.
Assessed and injected by Dr. Kumar, not delegated.
If EZ Gel will not help you, you will hear that at the consultation.
EZ Gel, filler, biostimulators, laser, microneedling — or a referral out.
Same position, same light, every visit. It is the only honest way to judge.
A series of three, a fourth at six months, and maintenance paced to you.
We publish what we charge because you should be able to work out whether this is for you before you sit down in front of anyone.
Three treatments, four weeks apart. That is the initial course for everyone — we do not sell single introductory treatments, because one treatment will not do the job and pricing it that way is misleading.
Including the fourth treatment at six months. Most patients then maintain every four to six months — more often if you train hard, have a fast metabolism, or take a GLP-1 medication.
What is quoted at your visit depends on the areas treated and whether anything else belongs in the plan. If we do not think EZ Gel is right for you, we will tell you before you pay for anything.
Book a consultationEZ Gel is an autologous injectable, which means it is prepared from your own blood rather than manufactured. A small sample is drawn and centrifuged without anticoagulant so a natural fibrin scaffold forms, producing platelet-rich fibrin. Part of the plasma is separately heated, which alters the albumin it contains and turns it into a gel. The heated gel and the PRF concentrate are then combined and injected. No synthetic material, cross-linking agent or chemical additive is used at any stage.
No. PRP is platelet-rich plasma, prepared with an anticoagulant, and it is a thin liquid that disperses quickly and releases its growth factors over a short window. EZ Gel starts from PRF, which is spun without anticoagulant so a fibrin mesh forms and holds the platelets in place, and then adds a heated albumin gel. The result is thicker and can hold a small amount of shape where it is placed, which PRP cannot.
PRF is platelet-rich fibrin in liquid form. PRFM is platelet-rich fibrin matrix, processed so the fibrin forms a firmer matrix before injection. EZ Gel is PRF combined with a heated albumin gel, which makes it the thickest of the three. They are used interchangeably online, and sometimes by clinics, which is a common source of confusion about what a patient has actually been quoted for.
Albumin is a protein that is already in your blood. Heating plasma changes how that protein behaves and causes it to set into a gel. The manufacturer's protocol heats it to around 75 degrees Celsius. Nothing is added to make this happen; it is a physical change produced by heat alone.
Not in the way most people mean the word. It contains no hyaluronic acid, it cannot be dissolved with hyaluronidase, and it does not produce the measurable, predictable correction a filler produces. Calling it a natural filler sets an expectation it cannot meet. It is better described as an autologous injectable that offers subtle support and gradual tissue-quality change.
No to both. It contains platelet-rich fibrin and a heated albumin gel prepared from your own blood, and nothing else. We do not use stem-cell terminology to describe it, because that is not what it is.
Be cautious with that phrase. Devices used to prepare autologous platelet products carry FDA clearance for preparing those products. That is a different thing from FDA approval of EZ Gel as a treatment for under-eye rejuvenation, and we will not describe it that way. If a practice tells you the treatment itself is FDA approved for this use, ask them to show you the documentation.
Yes, but it is a separate treatment with its own protocol, its own expectations and its own page. The patient journey for hair restoration is different enough that we keep the two apart rather than treating hair as a footnote to a facial treatment.
At Skin! Medical Aesthetics, 3405 N Downing St, Suite B, Denver, CO 80205, in RiNo between Five Points and City Park. Book an assessment online or call 720-902-9597. We see patients from across central and north Denver and the wider metro.
Dr. Kumar is the founder and medical director of Skin! Medical Aesthetics in Denver and performs the injectable treatments described on this page. This page was last medically reviewed on 17 August 2026. We revise it when our protocol changes or the published evidence does, and we would rather remove a claim than defend one we cannot support.
We’re on North Downing between Five Points and City Park — a short drive from most of central and north Denver, with free street parking outside the door.
RiNo · Five Points · Curtis Park · Cole · Whittier · City Park · City Park West · Park Hill · Uptown · Ballpark · LoDo · Downtown Denver · Highland · Berkeley · Congress Park · Cherry Creek · Baker · Washington Park · Stapleton / Central Park · Globeville, and across the Denver metro.
EZ Gel starts with an assessment — we look at what is causing the concern before we plan a treatment. Virtual consults are free.
Book a consultationBook an assessment at Skin! Medical Aesthetics in Denver. We will work out what is causing the concern, tell you honestly whether EZ Gel is likely to help it, and tell you what would if it will not.