Fillers and Botox

Fillers and Botox

Botox, for eye and forehead wrinkles, and filler with hyaluronic acid, for face, nose and lips, they are ideal treatments to reduce the signs of aging on the skin

There is nothing wrong, in fact, in wanting to look in the mirror and wanting to see a fresher image, with toned skin and attenuated age wrinkles. The important thing is that a carrying out aesthetic medicine treatments is a specialized doctor in all respects. E that the environment is suitable for this performance, sterile and equipped with the best equipment, such as our center. The risks, in making compromises, are not only for health, but also for the final effect (just think of how many celebrities are "ruined" by the wrong retouching)

Difference between fillers and botox

Botox and facial fillers are two effective methods for correcting the signs of aging. They are often confused by the less experienced with each other. The truth is that they are not the same thing and they solve specifically different problems.

Botox is the trade name of botulinum toxin. It is mainly used to treat and prevent facial wrinkles, although it can also be used for blepharospasm, strabismus and muscular dystonias. Botox reduces the activity of the muscles that create wrinkles and weakens them. Fillers, thanks to hyaluronic acid, fill existing wrinkles, where elasticity due of the degenerative process of the cells of the epidermis is missing, and stimulate production of collagen, which plumps the skin. Each case, of course, is different. In general, however, Botox is ideal for so-called expression wrinkles. That is, it is used for those around the eyes (the infamous paws of hen), for glabellar ones (at the root of the nose, between the eyebrows), for wrinkles frontal and those created by lifting the ends of the eyebrow.

Hyaluronic acid filler, on the other hand, is preferable in the treatment of static third wrinkles middle and lower third of the face. So let's talk about smoothing out wrinkles between the nose and lips, or to work on the jaw line if it has a "drooping cheek" effect. Whatever the choice, both forms of treatment are very effective ways to regain and maintain a younger appearance.

How is the filler treatment with hyaluronic acid carried out?

This treatment is carried out thanks to infiltrations with small needles. The operation lasts between 15 and 30 minutes and generally the area is not anesthetized. Depending on the type of filler and its absorption, the effect lasts from 6 months to a year. The effect is not it is therefore permanent because, being a natural substance, hyaluronic acid is metabolised from the organism.

How Botox is performed

Only surgeons specializing in plastic surgery, dermatology, neurology and surgery maxillofacial can give botulinum toxin injections, which are however not recommended in patients under 18, over 65 and in pregnant women. Botox is injected in minimal doses into the affected regions with a syringe equipped with a needle very thin, and the operation is painless. The effect is not immediate, and the attenuation of wrinkles it begins 4-5 days after infiltration and can last 6-12 months.