You don’t want a facelift, but you do want a lifted face. You’d like something easy, relatively noninvasive, and most of all, effective.
You’ve heard about Botox® and dermal fillers but aren’t sure which would be most effective to lift and smooth your face. Is Botox just for wrinkles, or can it provide lift, too? Can dermal fillers do more than fill in lines and creases?
At Sirens Med Spa in Somerville, New Jersey, our medical experts and aestheticians help you choose the treatments that give you the results you crave. You may benefit most from Botox, fillers, or a combination of the two.
Which is better for skin sagging? Here’s what you should know about dermal fillers, Botox, and lifting skin.
Most dermal fillers contain a synthetic form of hyaluronic acid (HA), a substance your body produces to moisturize your skin and joint tissues. Over time, your body creates less and less HA.
Eventually, your skin thins and becomes drier, saggier, and prone to wrinkles. Your joints may also become stiff and arthritic.
When we inject an HA-based dermal filler, such as Juvéderm®, into your facial wrinkles and creases, your face immediately becomes plump and smooth. We can also inject thicker forms of dermal fillers into your midface and around your cheekbones to create more volume.
The added volume has a wonderful benefit: It gently lifts the tissues below the treated area.
When treating your midface, we also might recommend another type of filler, called a collagen stimulator. Although this type of filler doesn't create results as dramatic and immediate as HA fillers, it encourages your skin to produce its own collagen, which gradually fills out and lifts your skin.
Botox is FDA-approved to treat wrinkles in the forehead and around the eyes because it safely relaxes the dynamic facial muscles that cause those wrinkles.
Botox blocks the signals that tell the facial nerves to contract the muscles so they — and the skin above them — smooth out. Careful use of Botox in the forehead can create a slight brow lift.
Aestheticians also use Botox to relax muscles that pull the face, jowls, and neck downward. In a procedure known as the “Nefertiti lift,” we inject Botox into the platysma muscles in the neck. When the muscles stop pulling downward, your skin relaxes, creating a naturally lifted look and sharper jawline.
We can also use Botox in the muscles around your mouth. Relaxing these muscles releases their downward pull on your marionette lines, which results in a more uplifted, smoother, and more youthful look.
Why choose between Botox and fillers when you might benefit from both? The best way to find out which would bring you closest to your goals is to come for a consultation. You may benefit from a combination of muscle relaxation from Botox and volumization from fillers.
Both Botox and fillers must be touched up periodically to keep your results fresh. Botox lasts for 3-4 months. Depending on the type and consistency of fillers, they may last anywhere from six months to a couple of years.
Find out whether Botox, fillers, or both are best to lift your sagging skin. Call our helpful team or book an appointment online today. We serve Monroe, Flemington, and Somerville, New Jersey, and surrounding areas. Our Sirens Med Spa is located at our Somerville location of Rheumatology Center of New Jersey.
