Fillers

For some of us, it’s not the wrinkles that make us look older than we might feel, but rather the lack of volume that comes as we age and naturally lose our collagen. The areas under our eyes, or around our cheeks and lips might look less plump and slightly hollow as we age. Injectable fillers can address all these issues, reversing the signs of aging and restoring a more youthful appearance.

All About Dermal Fillers

As we age, we naturally lose volume in our cheeks, around our lips, and in the lower half of our face. Gravity and age also combine to make our skin less taut, stretching it in a way that makes the resulting hollowness even more apparent. Once you take into account sun exposure, heredity, and lifestyle, lack of volume can be a major problem for people who wish to retain a more youthful look.

Dermal fillers not only help to restore volume and fullness to the face, but they can be used to diminish unwanted lines, as well. Fillers can enhance the cheeks and shallow contours, soften wrinkles and creases, and improve the appearance of recessed scars like acne scarring.

Fillers are most often used to:

Build the cheeks
Fill lost volume and lift the lower face
Plump the lips
Fill the hollows under the eyes (tear troughs)
Restore lost volume to hands to improve their appearance and reduce the appearance of tendons and blood vessels

We are proud to offer a wide assortment of dermal fillers, because no two faces require the same treatment plan. With different fillers to choose from, we can create the most aesthetic results and help you reach your ultimate goals.

Hyaluronic Acid Based Fillers

Hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring substance used by the body to plump the skin and keep it youthful. Aging brings many changes, including a decrease in HA and collagen production, but hyaluronic acid based cosmetic injectables use a synthetic version of HA that closely matches the body’s own HA to restore volume below the skin. Your body will process the hyaluronic acid filler over time, however, so results are not permanent.

One benefit of hyaluronic acid based fillers is that they can be broken down with an enzyme called hyaluronidase. This is rarely needed, but it is important (and comforting) to know that HA fillers are reversible if a problem arises. With other, non-HA fillers, there is no option to reverse if a problem arises.

Revanesse® Versa+

Revanesse® Versa™+ is FDA approved as an effective hyaluronic acid based filler (with added lidocaine for more comfortable injections) that can be injected into moderate to deep wrinkles to improve the appearance of laugh lines that often turn into nasolabial folds. Results are immediate and last up to 12 months.

Revanesse® Lips+

Revanesse® Lips™+ is an effective hyaluronic acid based filler (with added lidocaine for more comfortable injections) that is FDA approved for use in lip augmentation for those who have age-related loss of volume or who wish to have fuller, more plump lips. Results are immediate, and last for 6 months or more.

Belotero Balance®

Belotero Balance is a hyaluronic acid based filler that restores immediate volume to the skin. It integrates well with skin tissues and can easily treat and correct mild to moderate lines that are etched into the skin, including vertical lip lines and facial wrinkles.

Collagen Stimulating Fillers

Hyaluronic acid is an effective ingredient used in many different injectables, but it’s not the only effective ingredient. Other injectables can restore volume and they use alternative ingredients to restore youth, correct volume loss, and even increase collagen production within your body. At our office, we carry both Radiesse and Bellafill.

Bellafill®

Bellafill is the only dermal filler FDA approved to be safe and effective for up to 5 years. It is a collagen stimulator that consists of tiny polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microspheres suspended in a base of smooth collagen gel. The collagen gel provides an immediate reduction in smile lines, but the real work happens over time. Your body uses the microspheres in Bellafill to create a “scaffold” onto which your own natural collagen can develop – adding volume to wrinkles and reducing their appearance – giving you natural looking results that feel soft and smooth for up to 5 years.

Radiesse®

Radiesse is a collagen stimulator made up of calcium hydroxylapatite microspheres in a gel matrix. When injected, the gel matrix provides an immediate reduction in smile lines and an increase in volume, but over time the microspheres also stimulate your body's collagen and elastin production. It can treat and correct the signs of aging and volume loss in the lower half of the face, the jawline, and in the hands. Improvements generally last for a year or more.