Wrinkle Treatment

A dermatologist injects very small amounts of purified botulinum toxin. When treating fine lines and wrinkles, the dermatologist injects botulinum toxin into targeted muscles on the face or neck. This temporarily relaxes the targeted muscles, causing fine lines and wrinkles to diminish. The effect lasts about 4 months and sometimes longer.

Dermatologists want their patients to look natural and to do this, they inject just enough to weaken and relax the targeted muscles without affecting other muscles. This allows patients to maintain their natural facial expressions.

One can have another wrinkle treatment when the lines and wrinkles return. With repeat treatment for lines and wrinkles, the muscle may thin, leading to longer-lasting results.

Most people return to their everyday activities immediately after wrinkle treatment.

To prevent the injected substance from spreading to areas where you don’t want it, you’ll need to take a few precautions after the wrinkle treatment:

• Don’t rub or massage the areas where you received the injections.
• If you apply makeup, take care not to press or rub on it.
• Wait two hours before you engage in strenuous physical activity. This includes lifting heavy items, working out, and any other physical activity that raises your heart rate.

If a patient develops side effects, these tend to be mild and temporary. The injections, rather than the botulinum toxin itself cause most mild side effects. For example, a patient may occasionally bruise. If this happens, the bruising lasts about 1 week.

The anti ageing treatment procedure varies with the filler your dermatologist will use, the part of the body to be treated, and your medical history. Here are some general guidelines about what you can expect:

• Most filler wrinkle treatment procedures take between about 30 minutes and require one office visit.
• Before getting the injections, an anesthetic may be applied to the skin to make the procedure more comfortable.
• Your dermatologist will inject the filler into the area, often giving you several injections to wrinkle treatment produce the best results.
• You may feel a stinging or burning sensation as the filler is injected.

Most patients can return to their everyday activities after leaving the clinic. To reduce any redness and swelling from the injections, your dermatologist may recommend icing the area for 15 to 20 minutes before you leave.

Most fillers fill the skin, so they produce immediate or close to immediate results. A filler also can stimulate your body to produce collagen, but this takes time.

Most fillers offer temporary results and require repeat treatments to maintain the results. Temporary fillers offer one key advantage. These can be injected as needed to replace lost fullness. This is advantageous because no matter what we do, our skin continues to age.

If you get a temporary filler anti ageing treatment, you can usually have another treatment when the signs of aging reappear.

After receiving filler injections, some patients have minor, temporary side effects where they were injected. They may have redness, swelling, lumps, tenderness, bruising (occasionally) and vascular complications

Most of these side effects tend to clear within 7 to 14 days — if not earlier.

Serious side effects are more likely when the person injecting the filler does not have adequate medical training and experience. To protect yourself, you should never get filler injections in a non-medical setting, such as a non-medical spa, salon, or someone’s home. When fillers are injected in a non-medical setting or by an inexperienced provider, reports of more serious side effects increase dramatically.