Facial Beauty Information

Tips on How to Maintain Facial Beauty

This article discusses and shares some important factors about facial line aging that many individuals find bothersome, are concerned about their facial outlook and wish to maintain to look younger.

A bumpy or wonky face is more upsetting than a face with a few natural age lines. Experimenting with a temporary filler first, you can go through with a more permanent line filler without feeling nervous about the result. What causes upper and lower facial lines is not always just simple aging. If you have very intense muscles in the center of your forehead, you will develop a lot of wrinkles in that area. These can show up as either deep vertical lines making you look angry and cross, or horizontal lines that can make you look aggressive. The muscles that produce the vertical lines also cause a pulling down of your eyebrows and show an older look.

Some people manage to reduce their forehead and smile muscle action which can, in turn, help to develop fewer lines. Ultraviolet-protective sunglasses will also help by making you squint less. Smokers usually have a deeper line as a result of squinting through their smoke. Think of the lines around the mouth of a smoker, especially females, and you will notice that it is the continued action of pursing the lips to smoke that causes the permanent lines around the mouth.

Lower facial lines mainly will reduce the substance underlying your skin, caused by the loss of the subcutaneous tissues beneath the skin surface, comprising collagen and fat muscle tissues. These will occur when some fat fibers become detached with age and the deeper lines shown between the nose and mouth. They are known medically as nasolabial folds below the lips, sometimes referred to as 'sad lines', because lower facial lines occur as a result of the loss of natural support filling. These can easily be refilled using the filling injections, but upper facial lines must be treated differently. For example, fat should not be injected into the forehead as it can enter veins and may cause blindness of the eyes. The injections may damage facial nerves.

Another process that has become more popular in the last 2-decades is injecting a patient's fat into deep facial lines and scars. The fat obtained from the patient's lower stomach or thigh, following an injection of dilute anesthesia. It is then processed using different techniques, collectively known as a fat transfer procedure. Enough fat was removed to be harvested for about a year-long worth of injections, as the fat gets re-injected until the required result.

The injection of fat is applied every six to eight weeks in a small amount. The surgeon can monitor how much to fill a particular line. The treatment can last anywhere from two years and upwards, depending on the reaction of the surrounding tissue. For example, the new fat injected can stimulate the growth of more new tissue.

A lot of people prefer this method of injection as it feels less invasive and you do not have any foreign materials injected into the skin; even though side effects are minimal with most substances, there is little or no chance of an allergy or side effect with fat injections. The only caution that I have read about is that very small particles of fats may enter a blood vessel and this can lead to an ulcer in the skin that may heal with some scarring. As with all cosmetic procedures ensure that the surgeon you have chosen has explained all the pros and cons.

A much more recent development in the area of line fillers is a new implant known as Ultrasoft, which is a very soft and flexible type of tubular Gortex. Gortex has been used in the body for over 30 years to repair blood vessels, stomach walls, and other organs. It is known to be safe and does not cause allergic reactions. One of the benefits of treatment with Ultrasoft is that implants can be removed if the person's face changes, for example, if it becomes thinner so that the implant shows through or, in very rare cases if the implant moves. The best candidates for Ultrasoft implants are patients who have very deep nasolabial folds and those who had repeated treatments or temporary fillers. Implant fillers give more support than injected fillers and as well as fill the areas that are being corrected.

Collagen, as you are now probably aware, is a protein that our bodies create and it is the substance that gives us the support system needed for firmer skin. As we age the collagen decreases and skin loses its firmness and elasticity. For about four decades, collagen injections have become increasingly popular again because of the lower risk to the patient from allergy and the fact that it is a natural substance that our bodies already create.

Collagen injections would normally fill wrinkles, lines, and scars on the face, and sometimes in the back, neck, and chest. As part of the collagen substance is made up of salt water that will be absorbed by the body within a few days, your surgeon may slightly overfill the area for the lines to be filled enough so that you do not have to go back for repeat treatments. Collagen is not as permanent as implants but it lasts much longer than other temporary fillers. The exact length of time it lasts depends on the patient, the lifestyle, skin type, and the depth of the wrinkle before treatment, but two years and upwards is normal.