A Non-Surgical Liquid Face Lift
What ages us the most?
It is a cruel irony of aging that as we grow older, we seem to accumulate fat around our middles, but lose it from our faces. Think of a youthful face, and you'll most likely picture a face with full, rounded cheeks. That's because fat plays a large part in filling out the skin and keeps our faces looking smooth, and supple.
There is also a loss of collagen, which our bodies stop producing around age 25. To a lesser degree, our facial appearance is also affected by the loss of muscle that accompanies the aging process. All of this adds up to an overall decrease in facial fullness. More and more doctors and patients are seeking to improve the appearance of the aging face not through stretching the skin tighter, but filling it from the inside. Enter the age of the liquid face lift.
skin rejuvenation treatments completely PAIN-FREE.
What Is a Liquid Face Lift?
A liquid face lift is the lifting, plumping, filling, smoothing and/or re-contouring of the face through the use of injectable dermal fillers, such as Juvederm, Restylane, Radiesse, Perlane, Sculptra and fat transfer. As part of the overall procedure, these products are often used in conjunction with each other and in addition to Botox. These products are produced in different ways using different materials, and their specific applications vary somewhat, too.
The Use of Botox
The use of Botox in addition to dermal fillers can make for better, longer-lasting results. Botox blocks the nerve impulses that cause muscle contractions. When injected into specific areas, it effectively relaxes the muscles that are responsible for making certain facial expressions; these repeated facial expressions contribute to the break of collagen in certain areas, leading to deep creases and expression lines.
Botox can be especially useful when dermal fillers have been used to fill in expressions lines, such as the creases form when you smile, as repeated over-use of the surrounding muscles will cause the filler to break down more quickly. This breakdown shortens the length of time before more injections are needed to maintain results.
Fat Transfer
If you have considered undergoing a facial rejuvenation procedure but don't think you're ready for a face lift or other form of facial plastic surgery, you might consider facial fat injections. It is a well-known fact that as we age, the face loses volume of muscle, fat, and bone. For many decades, we thought of aging as an excess of skin. It is now recognized that the apparent excess of skin is at least in part due to the loss of soft tissue bulk, or fat from the face. Natural fat may be transferred from other parts of the body, (usually from the abdomen, flanks, or thighs) to areas of the face in need of volume enhancement.
Previous methods of harvesting and injecting fat made the amount of improvement similar to that of other fillers. The improved instrumentation and techniques used by Plastic Surgery Specialist's doctors make the take of fat more predictable and the correction long-lasting. This injection method of facial fat sculpting can restore attractive contours to your cheeks, chin, under eye, lips, nasolabial folds, marionette grooves, upper eyelids, and even your hands.
What can fat injections achieve?
Facial fat sculpting offers several major benefits. It can smooth certain deep wrinkles, enhance the volume of thinning lips or soft tissue of the cheek and chin. The main advantage of fat injection is that it is a100% natural filler. The effects of facial fat sculpting are very long lasting, but most importantly it is very safe, since there are no allergic reactions to worry about, and because the fat transplantation is from your own body. The fat transfers can be used alone as a non invasive rejuvenation or in conjunction with surgery to enhance its results