Treating your cheeks with dermal filler can also improve under your eyes, lift your jowls and even tighten your jawline. It's a great place to start treatment if you're concerned about sagging, looking tired or looking sad.
Cheek fillers do more than simply rejuvenate, support, and lift the midface, it also has acne treatment and filler migration benefits. This means that dermal fillers for the cheeks are effective in eliminating the following as well: Nasolabial folds. Sunken lower eyelid.
Cheek fillers achieve lift by making your cheekbones more prominent, pronounced and perfectly shaped. Full cheekbones are a sign of youth, but as we age, our supportive fat, collagen and elastin stores deplete in the cheeks, causing them to sag and droop.
Overfilling in the cheeks and under the eyes obliterates the natural lid-cheek junction. The whole mid-face becomes one continuous bulge, and the eyes become smaller, much like a pillow.
Small amounts of cheek fillers can be used to lift saggy cheeks or restore volume to flat cheeks. Cheek fillers can also be used to restore youthful contours in the cheek area. All of this can be performed without distorting your appearance or make it look like you have had anything done.
Dermal fillers can be used to restore mid-face (cheek) volume and sculpt the jawline, in order to reduce the appearance of sagging jowls. The procedure is not painful, does not require any significant down-time and is excellent at lifting and sculpting the skin, where volume needs to be replaced.
How can cheek fillers make me look younger? As we age, we start to lose fat on our face, and when this starts to affect our cheeks, our face can start to look gaunt and thin. When filler is injected into the problem areas, the face looks plumper and curvier, making us look healthier, younger and less tired.
Incorrect filler choice or placement can exacerbate the appearance of the cheek bags known as festoons, which can contribute to under-eye puffiness. As a general rule, permanent fillers, including Sculptra, should not be used under the eyes.
Using too much dermal filler can distort your face, make it look asymmetric and aesthetically out of balance, and in some cases, it can even make you look older than you actually are.
When injected, these substances can cause allergic reactions, infections, and the death of skin cells. Another risk is that improper injection technique can lead not only to swelling and lumpiness, but also more serious side effects such as death of skin cells, and embolism leading to blindness.
Expect to need approximately 4-8 syringes which are best done slowly and gradually over 2-4 appointments over 2-9 months. This is the base. Maintenance should be discussed with you (for most people is 1-2 times a year).
What are the benefits of cheek fillers? The benefits of this treatment include restoring volume loss in the cheek area, create contouring and definition, lifting and projecting the cheeks. Filler treatments can also fill out lines and wrinkles around the eyes, mouth and jawline.
Yes, the same filler can be used for both the cheeks and the under eyes, depending on what product is used.
Treating with 1ml at a time is certainly appropriate for some areas, such as volumising lips or having smaller tweakments into other areas of the face. Sometimes, however, more than 1ml may be required – in the cheeks, for example – as 1ml may not make a discernible difference.
Cheek fillers, also known as cheek augmentation treatment, provide volume to and around your cheekbones. Dermal fillers are used to create that instant 'plumping' effect, restoring and boosting the volume of the cheeks and give definition to the natural cheekbone structure, recreating the youthful contours of the face.
Botox contains purified bacteria that freeze muscles. In doing so, Botox can help minimize the appearance of lines and wrinkles caused by facial expressions. Dermal fillers contain ingredients that add fullness to areas that have thinned due to aging. This thinning is common in the cheeks, lips, and around the mouth.
Unfortunately, having fillers injected into the face can make festoons more noticeable by removing eyelid fullness under the eyes, making them appear worse. Additionally, the festoons can worsen when the surgery is performed to remove fat from the lower eyelid through standard blepharoplasty.
A very common problem that we see in our clinic is the worsening of malar bags as a result of previous tear trough filler treatment. As fillers tend to cause swelling, any patient with malar bags or festoons should avoid filler treatment, as this will only exacerbate the problem.
Dermal fillers are also used to relieve a look of tiredness outside of the direct eye area. They are particularly effective for “plumping” the cheek area to get rid of the drawn look that often makes people look unwell.
You Should Typically Wait to Use Juvederm Until Your 40s.
Rose usually recommends that you wait to begin Juvederm or any other facial filler treatment until you are in your 40s, or have begun showing the telltale signs of aging.
Many people find fillers helpful in their thirties or forties, but younger people may benefit from fillers when used to enhance the features of their youthful face. Fillers can produce excellent results at any age.
To answer simply, no, dermal fillers will not make you look unnatural. If done by a professional, dermal fillers can accentuate your features rather than attempting to create a new look.
Injectable fillers typically contain primarily hyaluronic acid, which provides immediate benefits by increasing the skin's retention of moisture, but more significantly has recently been proven to stimulate the body's natural collagen production over significant periods.