Lips
Dermal fillers, implants, and lip lifts are all methods people are using today to enhance their thin lips. Some people are simply born with thin lips, while others experience thinning as part of the natural ageing process. Regardless of the reason, these options are highly effective ways to add volume, structure, and shape to embarrassingly thin lips. Fillers are the most affordable and safest procedure used to enhance a person’s lips.
1. Enhanced Appearance: The greatest benefit for most people who have lip fillers is the improvement it makes to their appearance. Fuller lips can make a person look and feel younger. The improvement in their appearance can also help boost their self-confidence in professional and social situations.
2. Natural Fullness: Fillers provide a natural look because they are made of hyaluronic acid, a substance that is naturally produced by the body. Since it’s natural, hyaluronic acid is less likely to cause bruising. The filler is naturally absorbed and needs to be replaced approximately every six months to maintain the plumpness of the lips.
3. Gradual Progression: Natural fillers can be given over a period of time to produce the optimum result. This option is particularly appealing to people who were born with thin lips and aren’t exactly sure how they will look when their lips are fuller. Over the course of several appointments, a patient can get their lips to the desired plumpness without the discomfort that might be associated with changing the size of an implant.
4. Little to No Side-Effects: Allergic reactions and side-effects are extremely rare when it comes to hyaluronic acid fillers. It’s important for a potential patient to discuss their known allergies, or medication regimen, at the initial consultation to ensure the clinic chooses the proper filler. If there’s a chance a person might be allergic to the ingredients in the filler, a doctor might first perform a test by injecting a small amount into the patient’s arm.
5. Recovery is Fast: Most people who have lip fillers are able to resume all of the normal activities just one day after the procedure. Considering the significant impact fillers can have on a person’s appearance, as well their self-esteem, there’s good reason to consider it prior to other cosmetic surgery options.
Cheek
The goal of cheek enhancement with dermal fillers is to add volume or lift the cheeks. As we age, we gradually lose facial volume. Our midface and lower face are usually where this is seen most with “jowls”, sagginess, and deep nasolabial folds sometimes appearing. By injecting a hyaluronic acid-based dermal filler such as Restylane Contour, Restylane Lyft, Juvederm Voluma, or Radiesse along the cheekbones and in the temples, we can help lift the entire lower face. The results are diminished jowling and softening nasolabial folds and a revolumization of the cheek area.
If you are new to our practice, welcome! We do require all new patients have a consultation first regardless of you have received lip filler treatment elsewhere. There is typically time during your consultation to accommodate for treatment!
Tear Trough
As we age, we lose volume in the tear trough (under-eye) region. This causes dark circles, wrinkles, thinning skin and under-eye hollows to appear, making us look tired. This ageing change can start as early as our late twenties and can cause a lot of distress when we look in the mirror.
Tear trough fillers are an effective way to treat dark circles under the eyes and under-eye hollows. By injecting filler under the eyes, we fill the volume lost by ageing – lightening dark circles, filling under-eye hollows and wrinkles. This treatment also improves skin quality by boosting collagen production and hydrating skin from the inside.
- Painless – topical anaesthetic is applied
- Long-lasting results – 6 – 18 months
- Quick – typically takes 15 minutes with little downtime
Nasolabial Folds
Nasolabial folds are common wrinkles that form alongside your inner cheeks. They stretch from the bottom of your nose to the corners of your mouth.
Everyone has these wrinkles to some degree, but they tend to get deeper with age, along with other factors.
While there are numerous types of wrinkle therapies available, dermal fillers tend to be the first line of treatment recommended by dermatologists.
Other treatments may be used instead, depending on the severity of the folds as well as other concerns, such as sagging skin.
Dermal fillers are injectable compounds used in the treatment of facial wrinkles. They work by “plumping” the area of skin so that fine lines and deep wrinkles appear smoother.
All types of fillers help to stimulate collagen, a skin-plumping protein that you naturally lose with age.