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lmackey
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| 08/10/2006 3:54 PM |
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When it comes to fillers, make sure you get your syringes straight. There is a lot of consumer confusion about what goes where and what fills what. Restylane® is not the new Botox®; it’s more like the new collagen. It is not a replacement for Botox; in fact, the two treatments complement each other nicely.
Restylane fills in wrinkles, while Botox (botulinum toxin) softens the appearance of facial lines by weakening the muscles that cause contractions underneath the skin. Dermal fillers like Restylane actually add volume under the surface of the skin to plump up creases and folds from the inside out, which makes them ideal for spackling the crevices around the mouth and inflating lips and hollow cheeks. The transparent hyaluronic acid gel in Restylane softens the deep creases that branch from the nostrils to the corners of the mouth called the nasolabial folds, as well as the marionette lines or commissures that form lines that resemble parentheses from the mouth to the chin.
At a certain stage, usually in a person’s forties and up, a loss of fullness in the face and flattened cheekbones tend to be added to the growing list of improvements women and men demand from a quick, non-surgical lift. Whereas Botox has made many foreheads smoother by stamping out frown and squint lines, it isn’t as effective in the lower two thirds of the face. That’s where Restylane has the most potential. |
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