What to expect when you are getting Botox or Dermal Fillers.
Your skin is a protective shield, keeping out dirt, bacteria, chemicals and viruses, all while helping to maintain a steady body temperature and healthy body condition. While protecting us from all the different elements our skin takes a beating. Your skin also takes on some natural use just from all of the stretching and contracting it has to do every day as we jump, play, work and move. Though you can take measures to protect your skin, for some suggestions on keeping healthy skin, talk to Gainesville Dermatologists. As your skin is used it can take on distinguishing marks, like wrinkles. We can see the lines of laughter, frowning, squinting and smiling in a well worn face. Many things can contribute to why we gain wrinkles. Excess sun can damage the skin, we lose collagen as we age, our genes and hormones contribute and use all come together to sculpt our look. As certain parts of our skin are used more they will take on lines. There are procedures offered by Gainesville Dermatologists like botox or dermal fillers that can lessen these physical signs. To help you learn more about these procedures, some basic summaries are listed below.
Botox is a nerve blocker that lessens the activities of affected muscles. Not exclusive to cosmetic use, Botox is also used in certain muscle therapies. When applied in small amounts by Gainesville Dermatologists to certain regions in your face it can decrease the activities of certain muscles that create the appearance of wrinkles. Since each patient is unique Gainesville Dermatologists will create a specific plan for each patient to help them achieve their desired result. It is a very quick procedure that can be completed within a matter of minutes that needs no recovery time. The Botox procedure is also said to be pretty painless, some describing the sensation of the injections as like a mosquito bite. While the results may take a week or so to become noticeable they should last for three months.
Another cosmetic procedure offered by the Gainesville Dermatologists is dermal fillers. Two aspects of the skin that fade over time are hyaluronic acid and collagen. Hyaluronic acid brings fullness and volume to the skin, giving that plush look while collagen is what provides the firmness of the skin. As collagen and hyaluronic acid steadily leave the skin, the skin looks less full, folds and wrinkles develop and the lips thin. Dermal fillers offered by Gainesvillle Dermatologists reintroduce hyaluronic acid and collagen to the face with polylactic acid which is used in many biomedical procedures. Having collagen and hyaluronic acid back in the skin will bring firmness and fullness back to the skin. Generally, this procedure is focused in the mouth and nose area. As the procedure may be uncomfortable for some you can ask Gainesville Dermatologists to use a topical anesthetic or lidocaine injections to minimize discomfort. Dermal filler results are immediate and the whole process only takes an hour.
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