How to choose the best ones for you?

• Since the first FDA approved injectable filler was developed in 1981, dozens of injectable filling agents have been developed.

• Time can make the face:
– Lose its fullness and glow
– Look hollow, wrinkled and sunken

• Cosmetic fillers can restore the volume and suppleness to the face that has been lost with time.

Not all fillers and volume enhancers are the same

There are different types of cosmetic fillers that treat specific areas of the face:

– Lips
– Eyebrows
– Cheekbones
– Under eye circles
– Smile lines
– Nose
– Neck

The top 7

Choose the one that best fits your needs and goals

Botox®

Agent: Botulinum toxin

Action: Decreases muscular activity

Treatment: Temporarily smoothens moderate to severe lines

Areas of treatment:

– Between eyebrows
– Forehead
– Around eyes
– Around lips
– Around nose
– Neck

Results:

– Immediate
– Last as long as treatment continues

Juvederm

Agent: Hyaluronic acid gel
Hyaluronic acid is naturally found in the human body

Action: Plumps up the skin

Treatment: Refills the hyaluronic acid that has been absorbed into your body

Areas of treatment:

– Around mouth
– Around nose
– Forehead
– Lips

Results:

– Immediate
– Long lasting (6 – 9 moths)

Restylane® Silk

Agent: Hyaluronic acid gel
Hyaluronic acid is naturally found in the human body

Action: Enhances and smoothens wrinkles and lines around the mouth

Treatment: Refills the hyaluronic acid that has been absorbed into your body

Areas of treatment:

– Around mouth
– Cupid’s bow
– Vertical lip lines
– Lips

Results:

– Immediate
– Long lasting (8 – 10 months)

Sculptra

Agent: Poly-l-lactic acid
Biocompatible and resorbable

Action: It adds volume to fill in shallows and wrinkles
It’s a volumizer not a filler

Treatment: Stimulates your body to produce its own collagen

Areas of treatment:

– Hollow cheeks
– Softening cheekbones
– Nasolabial folds (nose to mouth)
– Melolabial folds (mouth to chin)
– Hollow chin area
– Undefined jawline
– Hollow temples

Results:

– Gradual (maximum effect at 5 – 6 months post injection)
– Long lasting (2 years)

Allofill

Agent: Allograft fat tissue
Natrually occurring

Action: Fills any soft tissue defects created by fat loss
It’s a volumizer not a filler

Treatment: Provides an all-natural tissue scaffold that will then be populated by your own cells and blood vessels

Areas of treatment:

– Anywhere that fat tissue normally exists in your face and body.
– Temples
– Hollow cheekbones

Results:

– Immediate
– Long lasting (Several years)

Belotero Balance

Agent: Hyaluronic acid
Natrually occurring

Action: Treats moderate-to-severe etched-in lines and wrinkles

Treatment: Smoothens out and fills lines and wrinkles

Areas of treatment:

– Nasolabial folds (from side of nose to corner of mouth)
– Around lips
– Vertical lines
– Corner lines
– Smile lines
– Chin wrinkles

Results:

– Immediately
– Long lasting (6 months)

Dysport

Agent: Botulinum toxin
Natrually occurring

Action: Treats moderate-to-severe glabellar or frown lines.

Treatment: Reduces specific muscle activity on desired areas of treatment
Injected only in 5 points between and above eyebrows, leaving untreated areas moving naturally with the rest of the face

Treatment is recommended for adults less than 65 years of age.

Areas of treatment:

– Lines between eyebrows
– Lines above eyebrows

Results:

– Can be seen 2 – 3 days after treatment
– Long lasting (4 months)