A face lift without surgery?

Facial ageing is a continuous process throughout life.

You usually begin to notice its effects in your 20s when fine wrinkles, light blemishes, and sun spots begin to appear. You may also notice changes in the texture and firmness of your skin.

As ageing progresses, more wrinkles and lines appear, and they deepen over time. Your skin continues to change in texture and colour, and with less volume and plumpness now, begins to sag. These processes continue as we age and are a result of  reduction in collagen, and the underlying structures such as fat pads, muscle thinning and a decrease in bone density.

By replacing volume that has been lost from the face, especially the  cheek area, it naturally pulls loose skin back, decreasing nose to mouth lines, jowls and lines under the mouth corners. As plumpness is a sign of youth, replacing volume and plumpness makes us look both fresher and more youthful.

This can be achieved in three ways:

Dermal fillers: Using one of the volumising dermal filler types such as Restylane’s Sub-Q or Teosylal Ultimate, an instant plumping of the cheeks, chin and/or under mouth area provides instant volume and lift with results lasting between 12-18 months.

Sculptra: The most popular volumiser right now as these tiny injections stimulate your own, natural collagen to grow and replace volume to the face in targeted areas such as the cheeks.  Results take several weeks to develop as you are “growing” your own collagen which many clients like as it is a gradual change that no one will notice until they start commenting on how great you look but cannot work out why.  A course of 2-3 treatments is usually required about 6 weeks apart and results last up to three years – hence the nickname “The face lift in a bottle”

Accent: This does not replace volume but uses heat from radio frequency to “trick” your skin to repair itself by mass producing collagen resulting in tigher, taughter skin so an ideal treatment for the lower face, neck and jawline. A series of 4-6 treatments is usually required about 2-4 weeks apart. 

Before & After Images