It may not be possible to literally reverse the clock and turn back the years. But you can look a lot younger with the help of a “liquid facelift,” says Dr. Guljeet Sohal, owner of Balle Bliss luxury med spa in Cypress, Texas.
Facial contouring is basically trying to give you back the face that you had when you were in your mid-twenties. Remember when you had the nice high cheekbones and thicker lips? With dermal fillers, you can contour your face back to the way it once was.
As we age, everything starts to droop and sag, and you lose a lot of volume in areas of the body such as the face and neck. Your cheeks go down, they get sunk in, your nasolabial folds start to lose volume, the lips start to droop downwards, you get the appearance of what we call “marionette lines,” and the jowls becomes loose.
Recreating Lost Youth
With facial contouring, however, you can actually re-form high cheekbones with filler, refill in the nasolabial folds, fill in the marionette lines and add some dermal fillers to help define the jowl line better. When you actually do all of this, the result is that it lifts your face back up and you look much younger.
The best result, obviously, will come about if you take care of each area individually. But sometimes patients just want to do one thing at a time. If that is the case, the first thing you should do is the nasolabial folds. If you fill those in, it actually lifts the bottom part of your face up. So if you had to choose one area, that is where you should start.
Liquid face-Lift
Facial contouring with fillers is often called a liquid face-lift, trying to get back the years that have gone away. With plastic surgery, you may get similar results but you have to go under general anesthetic. So, there is a much higher risk of complications, there is a lot more downtime and it much more expensive.
With a liquid face-lift, however, you can have injections during lunch if you want, and then go straight back to work. It depends on what fillers you use, but within a year or two, you will have to refill again. Still, it is definitely worth it as even the life of a surgical face-lift is only anywhere from 5 to 10 years.
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