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Among the cheapest and more widely available treatments, there are known practices of: plumping flesh with collagenics; filling creases and wrinkles with dermics, cleaning of eyes and organs, applying a skinweave that pins up the skin folds, resculpting of bones or permanent staining of a skin a tanned colour with nanotic pigments considered in the Imperium as presenting as a mark of health.{{Fn|4}} Multiple treatments on low budget can leave visible deviance from a natural youth, with overly tight flesh and skin too smooth and too monotone.{{Fn|3}}
On the other hand, to the wealthiest there is an availability of gene therapies, skeleto-muscular grafts, implants, skin underweaves, transfixes, and stem-splices. The extreme juvenat treatment can replace the entirety of the body of a subject with mineral bonding and bone grafts to reconstitute a new skeleton, resleeved in a musculature gene-copied from the subject's code, reinforced with [[plastek]] weaves and polymers, with all organs replaced with similarly gene-copied transplants. Those individuals were known to indisputably maintain their prime appearance, sometimes even considered looking better than when they were the age they appear now.{{Fn|4}} People with less than the best access to juvenats are known to be able to present truly youthful, or at least not monstrously caricaturesque, while the precise reasoning isn't posited , the individuals known for this trait lead physically demanding and active lifestyles, which might be causative to the scarcity of such an effect on the wider populace.{{Fn|5}}
Even with access to the treatment, some people keep parts of their aged self, like grey hair or slight droop to the cheeks,{{Fn|6}} the lack of those vanity enhancement is outside a selected few nobles apparent mostly in rejuvenated officers.{{Fn|7b}} Some more spineless individuals are viewed by less privileged to purposefully alter their appearance for the aim of obfuscating their innate slimy expressions with those considered approachable, though it's a matter of conjecture.{{Fn|3}} Juvenat treatments are known to work on some [[xenos]] like the [[T'au]], who can reach otherwise impossible age of eighty, albeit with definitive deformation with parchment like skin and the definition of their body hanging mostly on bones.{{Fn|7a}}. While they are effective at greatly expanding one's life, they ultimately fail to prevent eventual death.{{Fn|8}}{{Fn|Note 1}}
