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More about Dermal Fillers
Who is dermal filler for?
So for patients that don’t want to have surgery right away and want some facial rejuvenation fillers are great options so fillers are products that bring volume to the face also hydrate the face and the skin and can also be used for wrinkles so if you are looking for something that enhances the face and is non-surgical those are the most common things that we do there are several kinds of fillers the most common ones that we use are hyaluronic acid fillers those are the Juvederm family and the wrestling family we use that on a routine basis and they come in different thickness I would say so the thicker ones we use for volume to the face so to the cheek to the temples to the lips and the ones that are very fine and very flowy we use for fine lines so just to erase those lines and wrinkles that don’t go away
The procedure
How it is applied
this is usually how the filler comes it is a syringe usually 1 cc and then we have this cap here that keeps the product sterile right once we remove the cap we can use cannulas or needles so let’s get a needle first so we usually would put the needle to the syringe and then you can see that the filler would flow right through the tip and once the filler is out you can see that it’s actually very stable so that’s what it does to the tissues and stays there and it’s very flexible and malleable so we can actually sculpt the face putting the filler in the right position so a down time for filler it’s usually two to seven days
After Treatment
some people react differently from the injection itself some people get a lot of bruising and swelling just because of their nature some people are more sensitive than others and some of them basically don’t get any downtime so fillers usually once you inject they’re gonna get some patients will get swelling in the area where we inject so usually for 24 to 40 hours 48 hours you’re gonna see some swelling some redness and sometimes I’m losing people that smell a lot or that bruise easily they may get some bruised up to a week after fillers so we always have to tell the patients that if they have a major event the next day or the next week I’d prefer that we would delay the procedure and actually have a few days of downtime just in case there is a lot of swelling and bruising but that’s not very common.
Toxins or dermal filler for “Crow’s feet” wrinkles?
Hi guys, so what’s preferred: wrinkle injections (toxins) or dermal fillers for the crow’s-feet? Crow’s-feet are formed when we smile. It’s a natural expression that we obviously don’t want to knock out entirely, so a neuromodulator like toxins and doing a nice taper of small dose is great around the eyes. We’re firm believers in natural looking aesthetics here and keeping your natural expression. There are some cases where you actually have hollowing down into your cheek and in those situations the ideal treatment would actually be a dermal filler, a more robust filler like Restylane Lyft or Voluma.
Toxins (Injectables) vs. Facial
The Difference
We think it can be really confusing the first time you’re kind of delving into this whole world of cosmetic surgery and facial plastics everybody talks about toxins everybody talks about fillers and injectables what are you really supposed to do where does everything go I usually categorized toxins as neuromodulators and the reason that they’re called that is you’re actually injecting them into the muscles of the face and facial expression and you’re trying to calm those muscles down so the reason you get facial wrinkles the reason you get those 11 lines in your forehead and crows feet is because those muscles are continually contracting day and day out over the last 40 50 years and we inject small doses of toxins into those muscles relaxes the muscles but also gives the skin on top of that a break for a while so it relaxes those sometimes deeper but sometimes also fine lines and wrinkles fillers
Materials used
just that they’re materials that are made of different compositions that can be injected underneath the skin to kind of decrease the appearance of a fold or a deep wrinkle and can also do things like volume eyes in areas that are losing volume as you age so there’s a definite need for both and you try to have a very wide armamentarium in your handbook so that you can really offer patients what they need where they need it.
