Nonsurgical and Injectables Treatments
Everyone tries to postpone lines and wrinkles from developing across their faces. Even with a diligent skin care routine, the signs of age will eventually appear. Natural tissue breakdown leads to the formation of these lines, and this process is expedited by sun damage, harsh environments, poor diet, tobacco use, and repeated facial movements.
Plastic surgery is available to target the wrinkles and volume loss brought on by the aging process; however, surgery is not right for everyone. Injectables and fillers offer a nonsurgical approach to the minimization of these concerns. These minimally invasive options involve no incisions, require minimal to no downtime, and provide immediate results.
What Are Your Goals?
Fewer Age-Related Lines
Collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid are natural proteins that are found in abundance when you are young. This production diminishes with age, sun damage, and unhealthy lifestyles, and cause the development of lines and wrinkles across your face. Fillers reduce mild to severe facial lines and wrinkles to restore smoothness.
Increased Facial Volume
The gradual breakdown of collagen and elastin also contributes to the loss of facial fat around the midface. With time, the natural fat that provides your cheeks with their youthful contour vanishes, leaving your face looking hollow or gaunt. Fillers return fullness and shape to the midface.
Reduced Crow’s Feet
Blinking, squinting, and other repeated eye movements put constant strain on the skin around the eye. Over time, this strain causes crow’s feet, the small lines that radiate from the corner of the eye. Injectable fillers temporarily smooth these lines for a youthful gaze.
Lessened Frown Lines
Frown lines, known as glabellar lines or the “11” lines between the brows, develop every time you frown or squint. When you are young, these lines diminish as soon as the facial expression is changed. Unfortunately, as you age, these lines worsen to become permanent marks across your face. Injectable treatments lessen the appearance of these lines.
Fuller Lips
Some women are born with naturally thin lips. Others see their lips thin gradually with age, sun damage, environmental factors, and lifestyle choices like smoking. Dermal fillers restore fullness, shape, and definition to lackluster lips so that you can enjoy plumper, sexier pout.
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Injectable Options
Neuromodulators
BOTOX® Cosmetic
BOTOX® Cosmetic is a neurotoxin that minimizes expression lines like crow’s feet, frown lines, and forehead lines. This injectable treatment temporarily blocks chemical signals and immobilizes the muscles in the upper region of the face so that wrinkles cannot form. This treatment is a safe, effective, and stress-free way to smooth lines and wrinkles of the upper face. This treatment will only reduce dynamic lines—those caused by repeated muscle contractions. It will not address aging lines that are caused by the natural breakdown of tissues.Injectable options include:
- JUVÉDERM® to treat moderate to severe facial lines like nasolabial folds
- JUVÉDERM® Ultra Plus to minimize severe nasolabial folds and marionette lines
- JUVÉDERM VOLUMA® XC to enhance cheek volume
- Restylane® to lessen moderate to severe wrinkles like smile lines
- Restylane® Silk to augment the lips and minimize lines around the lips
- Restylane® Lyft™ to correct volume loss in the face and hands
Other Concerns
The Procedure
Injectable treatments are performed in-office in a matter of minutes.
A local anesthetic or topical numbing cream is applied to the skin around the injection sites to prevent any discomfort during the process. Many injectables also contain small traces of lidocaine to promote comfort even further.
A series of injections—using a fine needle—will be made depending on the size of your treatment area and the depth of your skin concern. Patients remain in the office for a few minutes before they can leave. Since this procedure is not performed under sedation or a strong anesthetic, patients can drive themselves to and from the treatment center.
Recovery Experience
Nonsurgical treatments require little to no downtime and minimal discomfort. Ice packs and cold compresses can be applied to the injection sites immediately following treatment to minimize redness and swelling.
Most patients return to their regular activities immediately following their treatment, but vigorous activity should be avoided for at least 24 hours to reduce the possibility of headaches.
Occasionally, slight bruising can occur at the injection sites. This is temporary and will fade in the following hours and days.
Cost
Results
Dermal fillers restore volume and lessen deep creases immediately following injection. BOTOX® Cosmetic and Jeuveau™ treatments activate and smooth fine lines and wrinkles in the upper face within the first 24 to 36 hours.
The body eventually absorbs these products, and the results will diminish. BOTOX® Cosmetic and Jeuveau™ are known to last between three to four months, and dermal filler injections are estimated to last six months.
Every patient absorbs these injectables at their own rate. Therefore, it is difficult to estimate the exact length of your results.
