Introduction to Lifting-Style Dermal Fillers
As we age, our faces can lose definition and contours. Lifting-style dermal fillers are a type of aesthetic treatment used to provide shape, structure, and definition to areas of the face, including the cheeks, chin, and jawline.
If you are concerned about facial volume loss, hydration levels in your skin, and elasticity, you can consider dermal filler treatments. As with any aesthetic treatment, it is important to make the decision to use dermal fillers in consultation with a registered doctor.
Why Use Lifting-Style Dermal Fillers?
Facial bones give our faces shape and structure. The rate of bone loss we experience increases as we age, leading to a loss of volume, facial definition, and contours, especially along the jawline. Flat cheeks, "jowling", and saggy skin can appear because of age-associated volume loss in the mid-face.
Lifting-style dermal fillers may vary in texture and firmness. These variations depend on different properties of the injectable dermal filler treatment and will influence which part of the face is treated.
Treatment Areas
With lifting-style dermal fillers, you can enhance and maintain facial shape, angles, and contours. People typically use them in areas such as the cheeks, chin, and jawline.
The Treatment
Depending on the area being treated, administering dermal filler injections can take up to 45 minutes. A touch-up treatment about two weeks after the initial treatment may be recommended to improve results. Some dermal fillers can contain a local anesthetic. It can help reduce the level of discomfort you may experience during the treatment.
A treatment with dermal fillers can last between six months and two years, depending on the number of retreatments. The results may vary based on the treatment area, the product, and the characteristics of the individual receiving it.
Patients sometimes experience post-treatment side effects immediately after their dermal filler treatment. These can include bruising, redness, swelling, pain, or tenderness at the treatment site. Within a week after the injection, the side effects usually disappear.
The Science Behind Lifting-Style Dermal Fillers
Our bodies naturally contain substances that keep our skin tissue soft, hydrated, and flexible. One of these is a sugar molecule (a type of ‘glycosaminoglycan’ called hyaluronic acid) that has a high ability to bind water. Levels of this molecule in the skin often decrease as we age, leading to dryer, thinner skin.
Some dermal fillers contain this glycosaminoglycan. When placed in the deeper layers of the skin, these sugar molecules keep body tissues hydrated and provide support to maintain structure and projection. With the correct product, you can have hydrated skin, healthy skin tone, and an aesthetic appearance to suit your facial structure.
Before & After
- Anti-wrinkle treatments: frown lines and crow's feet;
- Dermal fillers: under eyes, cheeks, smile lines and lips.
- Individual results may vary.
- Anti-wrinkle treatments: frown and smile lines;
- Dermal fillers: cheeks and smile lines.
- Individual results may vary.
- Dermal fillers: cheeks, smile lines and jawline.
- Individual results may vary.
- Anti-wrinkle treatments: frown and smile lines;
- Dermal fillers: cheeks, smile lines and lips.
- Individual results may vary.
- Dermal fillers: under eyes.
- Individual results may vary.
- Dermal fillers: cheeks and lips.
- Individual results may vary.
- Dermal fillers: cheeks, nose, chin and lips
- Individual results may vary.
- Dermal fillers: forehead, cheekbones, cheeks, nose, lips and chin.
- Individual results may vary.
- Dermal fillers: cheekbones, nose, cheeks and smile lines
- Individual results may vary.
- Dermal fillers: cheeks, lips and chin.
- Individual results may vary.
- Dermal fillers: cheeks, smile lines and lips;
- Skin hydration boosters: cheeks
- Individual results may vary.
- Anti-wrinkle treatments: frown lines;
- Dermal fillers: under eyes, cheekbones, cheeks and smile lines.
- Individual results may vary.
- Anti-wrinkle treatments: frown lines and crow's feet;
- Dermal fillers: cheeks, smile lines, lips and chin.
- Individual results may vary.
- Anti-wrinkle treatments: frown lines and crow's feet;
- Dermal fillers: cheeks, smile lines, lips and chin.
- Individual results may vary.
- Anti-wrinkle treatments: frown lines and crow’s feet;
- Dermal fillers: cheeks and smile lines.
- Individual results may vary.
Individual results may vary.
Provides shape, structure, and definition
May be used on the cheeks, chin, and jawline
Contains a sugar molecule that keeps skin hydrated
Questions to Ask Before Your Anti-ageing Treatment
- Are you registered with the HPCSA?
- How much experience have you had with the dermal fillers?
- Do you use a filler product that has been approved for use in South Africa?
- What results can I expect from the treatment?
- What happens during the treatment?
- Can my medications, medical history, or previous treatments affect or prevent treatment?
- Do I need to know about any side effects and precautions?
- What should I do before and after treatment?
- Any other questions you may have.
You will also find detailed information about lifting-style dermal fillers in the Refine FAQ section.
