Injectable dermal fillers are nonsurgical treatments designed to restore volume, enhance facial contours, and improve balance and proportion while maintaining a natural appearance.
As we age, changes in collagen, bone structure, facial fat, and skin elasticity can contribute to volume loss and changes in facial shape. Dermal fillers can be strategically placed beneath the skin to restore support, soften certain lines and folds, or enhance features such as the lips, cheeks, and chin.
Fillers can also be used in patients who aren’t experiencing age-related volume loss but simply want to enhance or refine their natural features.
How Dermal Fillers Work
Many commonly used dermal fillers are made with hyaluronic acid, a substance naturally found in the body that helps attract and retain moisture.
When carefully injected into specific areas of the face, filler can provide volume and structural support where it is needed.
Different fillers have different characteristics, which allows your injector to select a product based on the treatment area, your anatomy, and the result you’re hoping to achieve.
What Dermal Fillers Can Treat
Depending on your individual needs and goals, injectable fillers may be used to:
- Add volume and definition to the lips
- Restore or enhance cheek volume
- Improve chin projection and contour
- Enhance facial balance and proportion
- Soften nasolabial folds, or “smile lines”
- Soften marionette lines around the mouth
- Restore volume in areas affected by facial aging
- Improve the appearance of certain facial hollows or shadows
- Create subtle contour and definition
Not every area or concern should be treated with filler. Your injector will evaluate your facial anatomy and recommend the treatment—or combination of treatments—that is most appropriate for you.
Lip Enhancement
Lip filler can be customized to achieve anything from subtle hydration and definition to increased volume and shape.
Treatment isn’t simply about making the lips larger. Careful placement can enhance the lip border, improve proportion, support symmetry, or restore volume that has changed over time.
The goal is to create a result that complements your individual facial features.
Restoring Facial Volume & Support
Facial aging doesn’t happen only at the surface of the skin. Over time, changes in bone, fat, collagen, and skin can affect the underlying support and contours of the face.
Strategically placed filler can help restore volume and support in areas such as the cheeks, chin, and lower face, creating a refreshed appearance without changing what makes you look like you.
Facial Balancing & Contouring
Dermal fillers can also be used to enhance facial proportions.
Rather than focusing on a single feature, your injector may evaluate how different areas of the face relate to one another. Subtle enhancement of the cheeks, chin, lips, or other appropriate areas can sometimes create better overall balance and definition.
Natural-Looking Results
Our approach to injectable filler is centered around balance, proportion, and natural-looking enhancement.
More filler isn’t necessarily better. The amount and type of product used should be determined by your anatomy, existing facial structure, treatment goals, and the area being treated.
For some patients, the best plan may involve treating gradually over multiple appointments rather than trying to achieve the entire result at once.
Customized to You
At Rammos Plastic Surgery & MedSpa, every injectable filler treatment begins with an individualized assessment.
We’ll discuss what you’d like to improve, evaluate your facial anatomy, and determine which areas and products are best suited to your goals.
Whether you’re looking for subtle lip enhancement, restoration of lost facial volume, or improved facial balance, our goal is to create a result that enhances your natural features rather than changing them.
