Dermal Fillers: Are they right for you?

By Sam Worth


A wide variety of temporary and permanent fillers are now available. They could be accustomed to restore youthful facial contours by reduction of frown or smile lines, crows feet and scars and they also could be used to augment specific facial expression like lips, chin, and cheeks.

As time passes, these products became safer, safer to use and much more accessible to the patient. The volume of products also allows physicians to relieve a broad scope of problems in various ways, ultimately causing much greater flexibility in treatment and optimum results.

The temporary fillers include collagen, acid hyaluronic, calcium hydroxylapatite and poly-L-lactic acid. With all of fillers, short-term redness, swelling and tenderness at the injection sites may occur.

* Collagen has been used more than two decades as a filler and is the defacto standard that most other fillers are compared to. Collagen can be acquired from cow hide or from manufactured human skin. An epidermis test with the cow derived collagen is essential ahead of treatment to discover whether or not the patient is allergic on the implant. The effects of collagen usually lasts two to four months and is accustomed to treat wrinkles from the lower half of the face as well as lip enhancement. * Hyaluronic acid can also be available from an animal (rooster comb) or even a non-animal source. Allergy tests are not essential ahead of using the animal derived product but there might be the lowest incidence of allergic reactions. HA is often used for lip enhancement but could also be used for filling creases and contouring. The pet derived HA usually lasts between three and six months and the other slightly longer. * Calcium hydroxylapatite not only replaces volume to folds and wrinkles but in addition stimulates the body to generate new collagen. As a result, this particular product can last more than a year. Poly-L-lactic acid is utilized primarily to sculpt or repair facial defects and is not appropriate for lip augmentation or treatments for superficial lines and/or wrinkles. Skin tests are not necessary for either calcium hydroxylapatite or poly-L-lactic acid.

Semi-permanent to permanent implants such as fat injections, and physical implants could be effective for deeper lines, furrows and folds as well as lip and cheek enhancement. Keeping of these could be more complex and time consuming but relatively safe.

Filler technologies are rapidly expanding where there are lots of more cosmetic options on the horizon. It is deemed an exciting amount of time in the industry of cosmetic rejuvenation!




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