Facial and Lip Filling

Facial and Lip Filling

As the facial fillers are used in removing the located wrinkles, giving volume and reshaping the face, plumping the lip; they are also used in the nose shaping, and in increasing of the scars and atrophic skin tissues.

Their permanence changes in accordance with the content of facial filler materials and cross-link density. Fillers containing hyaluronic acid show permanence from 6 months to 1.5 year.

Hyaluronic acid is a key intermediate forming the collagen in dermis tissue. It can bind water up to 1000 times of its volume. Facial filler materials containing hyaluronic acid do not change place or slip in the region they are injected. Since they do not cause the allergic reactions, they are frequently used in increasing of the volume of soft tissue. Filler materials can be easily applied by local anesthesia through injection and cannulas.

Most of time cheap facial filler materials of which laboratory tests were not made carefully may cause the allergic reaction. Infection risk of this kind of products is also high. For this reason, it should be stayed away from the cheap facial filler materials.

While free hyaluronic acid in the facial filler materials used to give volume to the face gives moisture to the skin, it also provides the collagen increase. These facial fillers, due to their habits, can be easily injected under the skin and provide a natural appearance. It has been proven that they are safe in the tests done.

The application is performed by using microcannulas, without creating purple spot and with minimal pain. Because their harmony with the face is higher than the thick fillers, they form a natural appearance.

These materials can be easily applied on chin oval, cheek spaces, nasolabial sulcus and hands, also including forehead and around the eyes where there are fine lines requiring volume. In the application of facial filling, amount of the material used will be decrease in the upcoming sessions.

Facial filler materials containing calcium hydroxyapatite crystal (Radiesse) are also used in filling deep channels on the face and face shaping. This is a material which stimulates collagen and does not have allergy risk. Its permanence is about 1-1.5 year.

Things Should Be Known About the Facial Filling Application

• After facial filler material is applied, oedema lasting 2-7 days can form on the face. This situation stems from water binding feature of the filler materials.
• In the day facial filling application is made, it should be cared not to make much mimic.
• After the application of facial filler material, it should be stayed away from contacting with water and make up on the region made application for about 4 hours.
• After applying the facial filler material, purple spots may form on the region made application. However these spots disappear in a week.
• Because the facial filler materials are affected by heat, it should be avoided from the places like sauna, Turkish bath.
• Facial filling is not permanent. Permanence time of the facial filling differs between 6-24 months according to the content of applied filler material.