Give your face a Liquid Facelift

The Liquid Facelift is a facial contouring procedure that involves the use of strategically placed botox and dermal fillers around the face.

This injectable facelift can create a younger, plumper look and addresses concerns such as lines, wrinkles, volume loss due to ageing or weight loss and sagging. It also had a noticeable impact in aesthetic medicine during the past few years.

The procedure is more subtle than surgery and an increasing number of individuals are trying liquid facelift over traditional facelift procedures.

What role does botox play in a Liquid Facelift?

Strategically placed botox injections can address concerns like lines, wrinkles, volume loss and sagging.

Multiple clinical studies have shown that a modest brow elevation occurs in the range of 1 to 3 millimetres which on the face, can be a make a real, observable difference.

What role do dermal fillers play in a Liquid Facelift.

In addition to sagging, often an ageing face is less about a softening jawline and more about losing volume higher up in the face.

When the lower parts of the face start dropping, gravity is defied by lifting and replacing the lost volume with injections of dermal fillers in the upper parts of the face.

Soft tissue volumising techniques using dermal fillers reverse these atrophic changes, yielding outstanding results and all with minimal downtime.

From the age of 30, we cease producing the substances that maintain plump, wrinkle-free skin such as hyaluronic acid.

By opting for preventative, non-invasive procedures such as the Liquid Facelift, a new trend will develop resulting in a much different type of ageing than older generations.

It immediately reduces that tired, drawn look we all get as we get older or from weight loss.

The procedure is suitable for any age group due to its lifting capacity.

The risks are far less than those of surgical approaches and the results are impressive, aesthetically.

The Liquid Facelift offers excellent, natural results compared to the major expense, downtime and risk associated with surgery.

When we are younger, the brow and jaw line elevators are more prominent and the face appears constantly elevated.

As we age, the dynamics change and the depressors take over and combined with gravity, a gradual sagging of our brow and jawline takes place.

If we can keep the dynamics between elevators and depressors neutral with strategically placed botox injections every four to six months, then the sagging that occurs with ageing will be reduced.

Once the botox kicks in approximately seven days later, the face takes on a relaxed and refreshed look and one’s face appears to glow and is lifted.

The treatment can be done during your lunch hour as there is no downtime, often patients go back to work afterwards.

Results with regards to the placement of the dermal fillers can be expected to last about 18 to 24 months if the Juvederm Voluma product is used.

This procedure does require specific doctor training as it is not purely filling in a fold or line, but when done well, the results are natural and can take years off your appearance.

For more information on this or any other non-surgical procedures, contact Dr Julie Sinclair at Sinclair Aesthetics on 011 453-3450/2. @BedfordEdenvale