Dermal Fillers

There’s no more beloved age-reversing and facial feature-enhancing treatment than dermal fillers. Like little syringes of pure magic, injecting the appropriate dermal fillers into specific facial planes allows for specific deflated areas—think the cheeks, lips, and jawline—to be immediately improved in terms of volume and contour. The popular age-reversing and volume-enhancing treatments are nothing short of transformative (when done appropriately and naturally). And when you stop to think about it, it’s phenomenal that a small amount of dermal injections of these dermal fillers can plump up limp lips, reinstate the cheekbones, and, otherwise, turn back the hands of time. Here’s everything you need to know about popular injectable fillers before getting them done.

Dermal Fillers

There’s no more beloved age-reversing and facial feature-enhancing treatment than dermal fillers. Like little syringes of pure magic, injecting the appropriate dermal fillers into specific facial planes allows for specific deflated areas—think the cheeks, lips, and jawline—to be immediately improved in terms of volume and contour. The popular age-reversing and volume-enhancing treatments are nothing short of transformative (when done appropriately and naturally). And when you stop to think about it, it’s phenomenal that a small amount of dermal injections of these dermal fillers can plump up limp lips, reinstate the cheekbones, and, otherwise, turn back the hands of time. Here’s everything you need to know about popular injectable fillers before getting them done.

Average # of Treatments

1 Session Per Year

Average Pricing

$1,000 + Per Session

Recovery Time

No Downtime

What are the Benefits?

Dermal fillers offer a multitude of age-reversing, skin-volumizing, and feature-improving benefits.

Some of the more popular benefits of dermal filler include:

Erasing lines & wrinkles

Plump thin lips

Enhance facial contours

Improve scarring

Lift and reinflate the cheeks

Natural-looking results

No downtime

Dermal fillers can be done at any age, in any skin tone and type, and as part of a standalone anti-aging regimen or combined with other treatments for more of a holistic approach. 

What Is A Dermal Filler?

Dermal fillers are FDA-approved injectable products that can rejuvenate, contour, and volumize the face for an anti-aging effect. Different dermal fillers have different benefits: hyaluronic acid filler attracts water for an immediate plumping effect, while bio-stimulatory collagen stimulators work over time to create collagen for added fullness.

Regardless of the type of dermal filler used, the main benefit is restoring volume and fullness in the face. With age, the deep fat layers of the face begin to diminish, which causes the fact to look sunken, hollow, or flat. But fillers restore a natural fullness to the face while plumping thin lips, softening lines and wrinkles, adding contours and definition, and improving the look of tired eyes.

Hyaluronic acid fillers are the most popular type of dermal filler simply because they allow deflated facial features to improve. Although the result can last up to six months or longer, these fillers have minimal side effects yet noticeable results. Hyaluronic acid fillers fill lines and wrinkles well and add volume to aging facial features. If fine lines, wrinkles, and a loss of volume bother you, dermal fillers and injectables may provide the desired solution.

Numerous different dermal fillers are available, and each one comes with its own nuances. Although many people often confuse Botox and dermal fillers as being the same, they are very different and work in other areas. However, the two are often used in tandem to achieve the best results. The different types of dermal fillers include:

Hyaluronic acid (Juvederm and Restylane): The most popular type of dermal filler, hyaluronic acid is a synthetic gel version of hyaluronic acid naturally found in the body. This filler improves lines, wrinkles, and folds, adding volume to the temples, cheeks, and lips and enhancing the nose and jawline.

Calcium hydroxylapatite (Radiesse): Unlike hyaluronic acid fillers, Radiesse is a dermal filler that smoothes out more severe facial folds and creases like those around the mouth. It also adds fullness to the face and enhances the appearance of the jawline by stimulating collagen production. In addition, the results are longer-lasting, and there’s no need to worry about migration, which can occur with hyaluronic acid fillers.

Polylactic acid (Sculptra): Like Radiesse, Sculptra creates collagen over time, helping to fill lines and wrinkles, deep folds and creases, and hollow areas. While it may provide initial volume, the results appear gradually over a few months at the injection site. A few sessions are often needed to achieve full results.

Each dermal filler is unique in its molecular and chemical makeup, the treatment areas of use, its onset of action, and the longevity of the results. Therefore, a mix-and-match approach of various dermal fillers may be needed to achieve the full results

At MD Aesthetics, we offer the Juvederm product line of dermal fillers and Sculptra.

The Treatment Areas

There are several areas where dermal fillers can be safely and effectively injected. Some of the most commonly used areas that respond well to treatment include:

How Much Does Dermal Filler Cost?

Dermal filler treatments vary in cost from provider to provider, and those in large cities often charge more.

The filler used, the injection areas, and the amount injected influence the overall cost.

To determine the cost of your filler treatment, call our office to schedule a consultation where we will put a custom program together to correct your current skin concerns.

FAQs

It all depends on what was injected and where. Bio-stimulatory fillers like Radiesse can’t be removed once injected, but hyaluronic acid fillers can. Hyaluronidase must be injected into the skin to dissolve hyaluronic acid fillers.

No matter what type of filler you choose, everything is temporary. On average, dermal fillers last about six months or longer, depending on what’s injected and where and how fast your body metabolizes the filler.

While the procedure isn’t painless, certain areas are more painful than others. Most patients request topical numbing cream first to make the treatment as comfortable as possible. Dermal fillers feel like a needle stick with pressure. Plus, most fillers contain the anesthetic lidocaine anesthetic, so the injections may hurt at first until it kicks in and further numbs the area.  

The risk of adverse side effects is low, but with all cosmetic procedures, there’s always the chance of redness, swelling, or slight bruising. 

Directly after receiving a dermal filler injection, make sure to ice the area, drink lots of water, and avoid alcohol for at least 24 hours, which can worsen any bruising. Also, avoid taking aspirin and ibuprofen for three days since they can lead to more severe bruising during the healing process.  

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