As your skin ages and is damaged by the sun’s harsh ultraviolet light, there is a gradual loss of skin volume, due to a reduction in skin collagen and elastin and some loss of vital deep fat and even bone structure. Like a slowly deflating balloon, this leads to skin sagging and wrinkles. Fillers can plump out wrinkles, and restore your facial and lip volume – giving you a more youthful and rejuvenated appearance.

How does the treatment work?

Dermal fillers can be used on lips, wrinkles and folds, facial areas where deep volume loss has occurred, cheeks and jaw line. A skin or deep tissue filler is applied through several fine injections into the treatment area – producing an immediate restoration of volume, and improvement in the general appearance of your skin. However, the full result can take some time to come into effect. Your wrinkles, creases and furrows may have been in place for some time, so can take several weeks to re-drape and ‘iron’ themselves out.

Dermal fillers can be used to enhance or rejuvenate both the body and border of the lips. It can be used to create volume with a natural look and feel to the lip body, increase the definition of the lip border, decrease vertical lip lines that can cause lipstick to bleed, restore a more youthful and upturned angle to the corners of the mouth and create a stronger cupid’s bow.

Dermal filler is placed below the skin’s surface to literally ‘fill in’ or ‘plump up’ the wrinkles and folds that are present at rest. It is used to diminish the depth of wrinkles and create a smoother, more refreshed facial appearance.

Dermal fillers can also be used to enhance or restore volume in areas such as the mid face and cheekbone and to provide more youthful contours to the jaw line and lower face.