Why Experience Matters When It Comes to Dermal Fillers
As we age, our faces eventually show it. Revealing the passage of time in new, unwelcome ways, each wrinkle tells a story of the damage done. Each year that goes by, a loss of volume and firmness reveals our dwindling youth.
You may start to see lines and wrinkles, and your skin may become less elastic. The fatty tissues below your skin also decrease, leading to a loss of volume in your face.
This is what causes many people to look older than they are.
Still, the damage isn't all bad. If we take the time to look beneath the wrinkles, we see that aging is a beautiful thing. The static lines, once more dynamic wrinkles, remind us of all the days spent in the sun, having so much fun we forgot to reapply our sunscreen. The crow's feet now rest outside our eyes between all the smiling and squinting.
No matter how old you are, your face tells a story - one that only you know best. It's a canvas painted with your unique experiences, with the streaks of other elements out of your control. You might know the story written on your face better than anyone else.
Still, having the best understanding of aging skin and facial structure is key to receiving the best treatment for your skin concerns.
For instance, understanding the anatomy of a face and how it changes over time. And how there is an anatomic process to dermal filling that must complement the state and shape of your face now to get it where you want it to be.
Nobody would ever expect you to know this unless you're an expert in this area. But if there's one thing you may have heard of before, it's the triangle of youth. The triangle of youth describes a youthful face comprised of three attributes: full cheek volume, high cheekbones, and a well-defined jawline.
Like a triangle shape, we all start with fullness and firmness in the same areas. And with age, everyone's faces follow a similar course. Over time, that triangle inverts, and skin starts to sag due to losing natural components - elastin, collagen, and hyaluronic acid. Jowls that form at the chin and jawline make your aging skin noticeable, even if you're only in your twenties. So we turn to dermal fillers to help lift the skin and add volume to areas like these, increasing the contents of what we've lost.
Most people's immediate thought would be cosmetic injectables at the direct site of the sagging skin to increase that area's collagen and elastin. However, an experienced aesthetician knows that, in this case, injections at the sagging skin below your jawline or chin could be worse for your jowls.
Through experience, trained aestheticians have learned when dermal fillers at the cheeks are the right way to address this.
That isn't to say direct injections aren't ever the answer - it all depends on your facial structure and how one area affects another—for example, volume loss in one area and its effect on the surrounding skin.
It sounds complicated, and honestly, it is. It's an expert matter. The good news is you can prevent and reverse this inverting pyramid in the hands of someone with comprehensive knowledge and practice. The most qualified aestheticians can - after plenty of experience - look at a face and determine what should be done to give your face a gentle, natural lift.
If you are considering dermal fillers, remember that experience matters. Inverted or not; triangle of youth or triangle of age, experience means the difference between treating every face shape the same and restoring symmetry, balance, and volume to any face shape - no matter the age, no matter its unique folds and experiences.
The beauty of aging is that you can hold onto your experiences without clenching them in every fold of your skin. You can restore your youthful appearance, but you need an aesthetic specialist who understands that experience matters.