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==Overview==
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, mild non-cosmetic mild juvenat treatments can include procedures to maintain bone density, neural regeneration, and transfusions to counteract the natural degeneration of vital tissues. These mild non-cosmetic treatments can extend an individual's functionality in life well past 100 years of age, despite grey hair and wrinkles.{{Fn|10}}
To the wealthiest in Imperial society 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}}
