Who is a Candidate?

• Facial fillers are administered over a wide age range.
• Younger patients seeking fuller, plumper lips
• Older patients seeking wrinkle reduction and fuller lips.
• Men who wish reduction of folds around the mouth to look younger.

Intended Results

• Fuller and plumper lips.
• Softening of superficial and deep wrinkles.
• Softening of wrinkles which appear during facial movement (smiling, frowning, concentrating and looking surprised).

Procedure Description

• This procedure is usually performed in the office.
• Most surgeons use a topical anesthetic cream and also administer local anesthetic injections prior to injecting fillers.
• Ice may be applied before and after injection.
• Immediate swelling may create the appearance of over treatment - his swelling generally resolves in several hours.

Recuperation and healing

• For most patients, fillers can be injected in the lips or wrinkles and they can return to work the next day.
• Occasionally a patient swells dramatically, especially in the lips. A first time patient may want to schedule the initial injection on a Friday.
• Bruising may occur but can usually be covered with makeup. It is a good idea not to schedule filler injection right before an important social function.

Other options

• Lipotransfer: the use of your own fat taken from one area and reinjected into facial lines and wrinkles after preparation.
• Volume restoration through cheek or chin implants.
• Forehead and facelift.
• Eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty).
• Chemical peel.
• Laser resurfacing.

 

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