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As years go by, face starts showing the effects of gravity, solar exposure, laughter expressions, etc. At the same time, tissues lose their protected mechanism. This is when line expressions start showing, furrows start appearing, lips get thinner, wrinkled and flaccid areas became more noticeable and skin loses its smooth and healthy texture.
There are different treatment alternatives today to solve this type of problems. Some of them are very simple and some others are more complex.
Face fillers are one of the simpler alternatives available today. It’s the injection of a filling material to the furrow, line expression or defect for it to be corrected. This filling material may also be injected to the lips to restore the full and health image they used to have.
There are many different filling materials: patient’s own fatty tissue, collagen, collagen combined with synthetic materials, hydrogel, hyaluronic acid, etc. each filling material has its advantages and disadvantages that the patient must know before making a decision.
As we said before, there are more complex treatments, like laser, chemical peels and dermabrasion, which have to be specially indicated and also offer many different advantages.
Finally, you may also decide for a surgery or a combination of implants or laser or a combination of the three of them. This combination offers amazing results that improve the patient’s physical image.
Aesthetic plastic surgery’s procedure to correct wrinkles and tissue flaccidity may also be done combined with an eyelid surgery.
Incision will be adapted to patient’s characteristics and to the patient’s technique, following skin’s natural lines and pleats, surrounding the ear, etc. this procedure corrects skin, fat and muscle flaccidity.
According to each case, this procedure may be done in specific areas like forehead, cheeks, neck or in all of them at once, changing in each case the location of the scars. This treatment may also me performed endoscopically, avoiding scars in neck and scalp.
Duration: 30 minutes to an hour.
Anesthesia: Local, combined o general
Hospitalization: Some patients don’t need to be hospitalized, but most of the stay 1 or 2 days at the hospital for recovery.
Recovery: patients may return to their work life with in 2 weeks after the surgery, hard exercise must be avoided for a month as well and sun bathing, for 4.
Duration of the results: 10 to 12 years.
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