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Dermal fillers are an easy and effective way to treat yourself to a younger and more attractive look. They can add volume to your cheeks, enhance your lips, fill the hollows under your eyes, and soften facial lines and wrinkles. But the improvements they make aren’t permanent. The natural substances used in fillers, such as hyaluronic acid, are gradually metabolized by your body. Depending on the filler used and how you care for your skin, you may need refresher injections after six months to two years.

Are there things you can do to make your filler treatments last longer? There certainly are. We’ll explain some of the key ones here.

Protect Your Skin from the Sun

The UV rays in sunlight have a powerful aging effect on the skin, causing roughness and discoloration and speeding the development of lines and wrinkles. They can also accelerate the breakdown of the substances used in fillers. Protect your skin and your investment in fillers by shielding your face from excess sun exposure. Avoid being out in the sun during peak exposure hours (between 10 am and 3 pm). If you do need to be out in the sun, use a broad-spectrum sunscreen with SPF 30 or higher and wear sunglasses and a hat with a wide brim.

Practice Healthy Skin Care

Keep your skin moisturized by drinking plenty of water and regularly applying a high-quality moisturizer. This will enhance the effects of the fillers and slow their absorption by your body. If you’re not sure which moisturizer to use, your plastic surgeon or filler provider can recommend skincare products that will complement your specific filler treatment.

Manage Your Stress

High levels of stress trigger the release of hormones that speed the skin’s aging process. You can’t eliminate stress from your life, but you can learn ways to manage it. Pay attention to the signs of stress and practice stress-lowering techniques such as meditation, yoga, or simply deep breathing. Habits of positive thinking can also help, such as learning to accept what you can’t control and reminding yourself of everything you are grateful for.

Eat Healthy Foods

Eating a healthy balance of foods, including whole grains, lean proteins, and several servings of fruits and vegetables a day can extend the effect of fillers while improving your overall health. Highly processed foods and added sugars can increase inflammation in your body, which can speed up the rate at which your fillers are metabolized.

Get Regular Exercise, but in Moderation

The speed at which fillers are absorbed by your body is closely related to your metabolism. Regular exercise is important to good health and the health of your skin, but overdoing it with intensive exercise can shorten the life of your filler treatment. If you’re an athlete or avid about your fitness, that may be an acceptable trade-off. Just keep in mind that you may need refresher treatments sooner if you step up your workouts.

Plan for Maintenance Treatments

The best way to extend your filler results is to plan for regular maintenance or “top off” treatments, rather than waiting until your results wear off. This will keep you looking fresher and younger in a consistent way. You might also combine maintenance filler treatments with injections of Botox, which can extend the filler results by reducing muscle movement.

Learn More In a Personal Consultation

Dr. David Kim and Dr. Eugene Kim at Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery have developed an impeccable reputation for stunning, natural-looking cosmetic treatment and plastic surgery results, attracting patients from all over the world. Contact our practice today at (310) 746-5475 or send an online request to schedule a consultation.

The plump, lucious lip trend: Angelina Jolie may have started it, but Kylie Jenner is finishing it. The interest in lip injections is soaring, and celebrities aren’t the only ones with access to the advanced lip treatments. This Valentine’s Day, give a gift to yourself and surprise your special someone with fuller, plumper, more kissable lips and by softening facial lines and wrinkles. Dermal Fillers are a quick and easy way to rejuvenate your face and make yourself more alluring year-round.

Get Plump, Kissable Lips

As we age, our lips tend to dull and lose volume. If your lips have thinned, or if they are asymmetrical or simply in need of a little love, injectable fillers like Juvederm and Restylane can give them a youthful, plump, enticing look. These fillers are made with hyaluronic acid, a naturally occurring substance in the body that retains moisture and adds volume to the tissue below the skin.
With just one office visit, you can have more kissable lips and a more voluptuous smile. There’s no downtime from the treatment and the results will last for six months to a year. When your lips start to thin again, you can simply have a refresher treatment.

Soften Facial Lines and Wrinkles

In the same way that lips lose volume with age, facial skin tends to lose its resilience and form lines where it is repeatedly creased. This is due to the gradual decline in the production of collagen, which keeps our skin moist, plump, and flexible when we are young. These lines typically form between the nose and the sides of the mouth (marionette lines), to the sides of the mouth (smile lines), at the edges of the eyes (crows’ feet), and as tiny vertical creases in the skin just above and below the lips (sometimes called smokers’ lines).

Just as with thinning lips, facial lines can be filled and softened with dermal fillers. Different fillers are used for different types of facial lines. Belatero Balance, made from a hyaluronic acid gel, is ideal for erasing delicate lines, such as shallow smile lines and the fine creases above and below the lips. Juvederm, Restylane, and Perlane, also hyaluronic acid fillers, come in different formulations for filling fine lines and deeper creases. In a personal consultation, your doctor can suggest which filler or combination of fillers will work best to soften the lines on your face.

A visit for injections of facial fillers typically takes about 30 minutes, or sometimes a bit longer if multiple areas are being treated. You’ll see the final results in about a week, and they’ll last for six months to a year.

Botox, Dysport, and Xeomin offer a different type of treatment for facial lines. They work by relaxing facial expression muscles that cause the skin to crease. These muscle relaxants are effective for reducing lines between the eyebrows, creases in the forehead, crows’ feet, and vertical lip lines (smokers’ lines).

Plan Ahead

It’s best to plan ahead and have filler injections at least a week before you want to look your best. You’ll notice an immediate difference after treatment, but you may also experience some minor bruising and swelling for the first three days and sometimes for as long as a week. Getting your treatment on a Thursday or Friday gives you the weekend for these side effects to fade away.
You may also want to have the filler injected in more than one session to avoid the risk of overdoing the treatment. A conservative application in two or even three sessions, with time in between for the swelling to disappear, is usually recommended for the most natural-looking results.

Give Yourself a Gift This Valentine’s Day

Make this the Valentine’s Day you love your lips and lose your facial lines. Dr. David Kim or Dr. Eugene Kim at Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery are experts in the aesthetic application of dermal fillers and have developed an impeccable reputation for their stunning, natural-looking results. Contact them today at (310) 746-5475 or send an online request to schedule a consultation.

Many of our patients at Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery come to our practice because they heard that painful comment that finally pushed them over the line and caused them to tackle insecurity. If you’ve ever heard that comment at some point in your life, you know exactly the one we’re talking about. It comes in the form of a question or statement that goes something like this: “How far along are you?” or “Wow! I didn’t know you were expecting.” The real blow to your confidence comes when you explain you’re not pregnant.

This post is about those who are sick of being asked, “Why do you look so tired?” and “Did you sleep at all last night?” If you’ve been looking in the mirror and feeling insecure about your tired and puffy eyes, we’re going to teach you about one of our cool, non-surgical cosmetic treatments for your face. Read on to learn more about how undereye dermal fillers can help awaken those tired eyes that make you feel way older than you should.

If you’re interested in learning more about non-surgical, minimally invasive treatments or have questions after reading our blog, please contact us through our website or call our practice at (310) 746-5475.

Dermal Fillers as an Undereye Treatment

The skin on your face takes a beating throughout your life. Factors like sun damage, genetics, and natural aging processes cause all sorts of negative impacts on different areas of your face. One of the worst places where those signs of aging become visible is under your eyes because the eyes are the focal point of nearly all the communication you’ll have with people throughout your life.

Even if you get plenty of sleep, deep and dark circles may form under your eyes as you age and cause you to look older and tired even if you are neither of those. The skin there can also get puffy and loose and form wrinkles. To help restore and rejuvenate those tired eyes, plastic surgeons and cosmetic professionals have several tools in their toolkit. One of the most popular, because of the cost and convenience, is using fillers to add volume to your undereye areas.

Dermal fillers used under the eyes are typically made of hyaluronic acid (HA). HA is a material that is naturally found in your body, mostly concentrated in the eyes, joints, and skin. It’s a safe, FDA-material used not only to add volume, but also to attract water to keep your skin hydrated.

What Is A Dermal Undereye Filler Treatment Like?

Convenience is one of the main reasons people use fillers to rejuvenate their face and add volume to trouble areas where collagen deficiencies, bone loss, or sagging skin are causing them to look aged. Appointments for facial fillers are usually pretty quick, sometimes only lasting 15-20 minutes, and the results are almost immediate. As your skin retains more moisture and the injection site heals, you should see improvements for about 7-10 days after your filler injections.

There may be some swelling and a little redness and tenderness for a few days up to a week, but there’s much less downtime than a plastic surgery procedure. Most patients will want to plan about a week for recovery before any big events where they have to put their new, best face forward.

Hyaluronic acid fillers such as Juvederm®, Restylane®, and Belotero® are commonly used under the eyes to add volume, smooth our wrinkles, and tighten saggy skin. Results are long-lasting but not permanent, and additional treatments may be needed down the road. Depending on your unique factors and the materials selected by the plastic surgeon or nurse injector doing your treatment, your results may last anywhere from 6 months to 2 years before more injections are needed.

Because they’re made from materials naturally found in your body, hyaluronic acid fillers are metabolized and removed from your body safely. One of the bonus perks of this process is that it can stimulate collagen production, which is an important structural protein in your skin.

Great Undereye Treatment Plans Begin with a Great Consultation

Dermal fillers require just as much artistic skill as they do medical precision. To make sure you get the best results, choose a skilled plastic surgeon or nurse injector to build you a custom treatment plan based on your overall aesthetic goals.

Contact Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery at (310) 746-5475 for a consultation or send us a message through our website if you have questions about cosmetic undereye injectables.