Are permanent facial fillers really bad for you? Why is it that our top Cosmetic Injectors insist on using only temporary dermal fillers for your facial injections? Instead of permanent solutions that might last a lifetime? Read this blog to find out why permanent fillers are a NO GO in our Melbourne Anti-Aging Clinics.
You’ll also learn why top quality temporary dermal fillers and anti-wrinkle injections are usually the best choices when you’re wanting to enhance:
In an era where the loss of facial volume and wrinkling of facial tissue is cosmetically fixable many individuals are rapidly embracing the chance to use cosmetic injections to stall – or potentially reverse – some unwanted signs of facial ageing.
When it comes to cosmetic injections, permanent facial fillers may seem appealing, given they supposedly last a lifetime. However, substances that are permanent can’t easily adjust. Time and ageing will eventually affect your skin and bone. Your facial bones will shrink and atrophy over time. Using permanent fillers or permanent cosmetic injections can leave you looking ‘unusual’ or unappealing in just a few years.
Temporary dermal fillers and anti-wrinkle injections can be altered to suit your natural facial changes over time. In other words, they are more flexible and adaptable to time.
Good facial surgery or injections can stall and temporarily ‘reverse’ ageing. But ageing still occurs and our faces and skeletal system WILL change over time. What you really want with cosmetic injections is adaptability and reversibility. That’s why permanent fillers are a no go in our top Melbourne Injecting Clinics. And as our top Injecting Team says, “permanent fillers give people permanent ‘headaches'” – and they don’t mean that literally.
New wrinkles can be targeted with anti-wrinkle injections, and lost volume can be replaced with top quality dermal filler injections, without being restricted to a permanent filler that suddenly looks ‘wrong’ or ‘out of balance’.
Cosmetic injections can temporarily avert the natural progression of facial ageing and correct volume loss that would lead to a sunken or wrinkled facial appearance. While you’re at it, you might even want to plump your lips or use dermal filler injections to attain a more pronounced cheekbone area or a firmer chin and jawline.
At one time, permanent fillers gave client’s long-term relief from years of ageing-related tissue stress on their faces. Injectors today do not regard permanent fillers a safe alternative. Although the thought of NOT having to make the return trip to your Injecting Clinic two or more times a year might sound appealing, the potential pitfalls of permanent fillers are simply not worth the risk.
The use of permanent fillers can create unrealistic expectations from people who view it as a cure-all; so can temporary fillers. These injections can only do so much, and eventually, a surgical approach may be required to get more youthful-looking facial contours (such as a Facelift when your jawline starts to sag).
Additionally, the results of permanent fillers can bring great dissatisfaction with clients – there’s no ‘wearing off’ or ‘reversing the fillers’ if your injector makes a mistake or if there is a miscommunication of what you’re wanting from your facial filler injections.
What may seem as the right amount of plumpness for more youthful lips for a woman in her early 40s may simply look overdone and “overly enhanced” 10 to 15 years later.
Current dermal fillers are comprised of approved substances that mimic substances that occur naturally in the body. E.g. an approved temporary-filler-solution. Due to this few serious challenges are likely to occur over time. Plus, if you don’t like the look, you can reverse it or simply let it wear off over time.
The body may reject or respond unfavourably to permanent fillers. Permanent fillers are often made with foreign substances that do not occur naturally in the body. In addition, when permanent fillers are accidentally injected into blood vessels or the “injection danger zones,” they can cause blockages and may lead to serious complications or even worse.
In previous years, permanent fillers used silicone or other substances that weren’t naturally occurring in the body. These often had drastically poor results that left many people worse off than when they initially asked for the treatment.
It’s important to remember that injections go directly into the layers of the skin, not into a surgical pocket; hence they really need to blend carefully with the dermal tissues. You also want to be sure your injector knows how to get a good result and avoid the Danger Zones of Injections.
If fillers are injected in the wrong anatomical location, many layers of tissue can, in a sense, atrophy or “die-off”. This is due to its natural environment being compromised from a foreign substance. The permanent fillers are far less likely to mimic the body’s natural cellular makeup than an approved temporary-filler-solution (HA) solution fillers. HA naturally occurs in the body. You can read more on an approved temporary-filler-solution and health in an editorial on Victoria Health’s website.
Cosmetic injections, whilst increasingly popular, are still a cosmetic procedure that involves penetration of the skin. Hence it has potential risks, especially if performed improperly by a less skilled or careless injector. It’s important you choose your Injecting Team very carefully.
This is why we encourage you to choose only a skilled cosmetic injector. An individual who knows that less is more. And that approved temporary-filler-solution based Fillers are superior for numerous reasons compared to permanent filler options or even lip augmentation surgery.
We at Coco Ruby Skin & Anti-Ageing only have very experienced cosmetic injectors with over 20 years experience in cosmetic injecting, dermal fillers and anti-wrinkle injections.
Why are permanent fillers challenging? Permanent Fillers vs Temporary Fillers (Facial Injections)
Temporary fillers are better. You can adjust them based on how you feel you look after getting a particular amount of filler in a certain part of your face.
Permanent fillers do not allow room for growth, adjustment, or manipulation as the individual changes or as other parts of the face and facial bones begin to atrophy.
The most common side effects with dermal fillers are minimal bruising, slight tenderness, and temporary redness over the injection sites. Rarer side effects include prolonged bruising, delayed swellings, and even rarer, allergies.
When you add a permanent filler to the dermal layers of your skin, a filler that is – unlike an approved temporary-filler-solution (the good quality temporary brands) – you’re adding a substance that is NOT naturally existing in the body. And you’re adding it DIRECTLY to your tissues. You’ve no doubt seen in media horror stories about permanent fillers. Lumps, bumps, and permanent disfigurement is possible.
In addition to the correction of moderate to severe wrinkles, fine lines around lips or eyes, and skin folds, an approved temporary-filler-solution-based TEMPORARY dermal fillers are also widely used for the correction of scars and for lip enhancement (lip augmentation injections).
Some clients find their body does reject permanent fillers. For a minor few, the temporary dermal filler injections may not work well or be fully accepted either. However, most healthy patients tolerate temporary dermal filler injections quite well. If you’re the rare person who will react to a filler, you want to be at a reputable clinic with experienced medical staff on hand. Our Coco Ruby team works alongside some of the top-rated Cosmetic Plastic Surgeons in all of Melbourne.
One of the downsides of permanent fillers is that there have been reports that a single injection of a permanent filler can develop foreign body type cells, like nodules. These can appear within two to four months after the injections. This is likely a rarer scenario with temporary fillers. If you have had temporary filler and a nodule has developed from to too much filler being used, come see us and we will see what we can do to help you.
We can help correct some dermal nodules that occur if you chose an injector that used too much (excessive volumes) of injected and approved temporary-filler-solution.
If required, there are methods to help reverse the injections. Alternatively, you can wait patiently whilst they wear off in less than a year. This is usually the recommended option. However, permanent fillers make changing the game not only complicated, but costly, and ineffective, if not further disfiguring.
Better yet, instead of seeing us to fix a problem you incurred using a less skilled injector or a permanent or less quality brand temporary dermal filler, come visit one of our Senior Injectors. Our Injecting Team will take great care with injecting strategies that can help you attain a natural-looking, enhanced facial appearance whilst avoiding the top facial injecting danger zones. All with quality brand name temporary fillers. We’re not permitted to print them here, however, our Cosmetic Injectors use only top quality fillers. Some of the best brand names that are available in Melbourne and that you’ll recognise.
We also think it’s a great idea to ASK any injector you choose to see the brand container of what they are using on your face. Furthermore, if you’re uncertain – take a photo. A quality Injecting Clinician won’t be offended if you ask what brand of dermal fillers or anti-wrinkle solutions they are using. In fact, they’ll be delighted that you care enough about your face, and cosmetic injecting results, to ask.
Do your research. This definitely helps avoid injecting disasters. In this case, you’re aiming to put your best face forward with cosmetic injections and other facial feature enhancements, not a disaster.