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Dermal Fillers

What is hyaluronic acid?
What can i expect?
Side effects and reversal procedure.
Areas that can be treated and cost.

1) What is hyaluronic acid?

Here at Alpha Cosmedic clinic we only use hyaluronic acid fillers. The newer hyaluronic acid fillers are much safer,more effective, and longer lasting than the old collagen fillers of yesteryear. Another key benefit is that you usually require no recovery time from a hyaluronic acid injection.

Hyaluronic acid is a natural component of the body that works to hold moisture in your skin while increasing the elasticity, durability and radiance of your skin. Clear gel hyaluronic acid injections plump up the skin, fill in wrinkles, and offer a youthful, refreshed and smooth look.

In even more good news about wrinkle injections, studies have found that those containing hyaluronic acid (such as Restylane and Juvéderm) led to "robust collagen production" while also interfering with collagen breakdown. So not only do you get a filling effect, but you also have an actual increase in natural collagen production.

We stock both major brands of hyaluronic filler brands: Juvaderm and Restylane. Because they each have slightly different properties, this enables us to completely inividualise treatments to suit your specific needs.

2) What can i expect?

The procedure will require local anaesthetic cream which will make it almost painfree. Ice packs are used to limit bleeding and bruising. We can also offer you Entonox (known as laughing gas), or Penthrox (an inhaled anaesthetic now used in ambulances and emergency departments for acute trauma), to make the procedure even more comfortable. You can expect the procedure to take around 30 minutes, with the results being immediate.Most clients can return to work straight away, with the great majority having no bruising whatsoever, We can combine this treatment with Botox injections to provide what has been termed a "liquid face lift", which can all be done in less than an hour.

The length of time the hyaluronic acid filler will last will depend on the thickness of the chosen filler and the location injected. In general the thicker the filler and the deeper it is injected, the longer it will last. As hyaluronic filler slowly breaks down (another reason why it is safer than permanent), the volumising effect will slowly decrease. The following figures are meant as a guide only as breakdown can be variable between different people due to many issues:

Sub Q / Voluma: 1.5 - 2 years, these are the thickest hyaluronic fillers at present and will give the most lift as the particle size is the largest. They are best suited to deep injection to volumise cheeks, marrionette, nasolabial,and frown lines. They are also excellent for rei-inforcing or enlarging strucures such as cheek bones, jaw lines, and chin. Please note these products are packaged in 2ml syringes only and hence the extra cost.

Perlane / Juvaderm ultra plus: 1- 1.5 years. These are mid range thickness and best suited for: lips,smoker's lines, under eye hollows, most wrinkles, nose reshaping. They can also be used for deep volumising in the rare instance where only 1ml is required.

Restylane / Juvaderm Ultra: 6 - 12 months: These are the thinnest hyaluronic fillers we stock and are mainly used for fine superficial wrinkling.

Please note recent studies show that a top up at 4-6 months will greatly increase the amount of collagen stimulation and hence greatly increase the life expectancy of the filler.

Our Policy is to use the thickest filler possible for each area, thereby ensuring that each client receives the most lift and duration of life of product for each area corrected. Deep volumising also looks natural and restores volume to where it is being lost. There are even thinner fillers available for uses such as rehydration and very fine wrinkling, but we feel the expense and longevity are not worth it, in most of these instances we will be able to acheive a better and longer lasting cosmetic result with the use of lasers such as fractional CO2.

3) Side effects and reversal procedure.

Hyaluronic acid injection is a very safe procedure, but there are rare side effects:The obvious immediate side effect is of slight bleeding after the needle has been inserted into the skin. Other risks include mild bruising, redness and swelling that may also occur around the site of injection.These signs may take up to one week to vanish completely, but most are able to go straight back to work after the procedure. Very rarely infections or cysts can occur after injections of the thicker fillers, but these can generally be corrected with use of antibiotics and hyaluronic dissolving injections.

4) Areas that can be treated and cost.

The cost per syringe for medium grade perlane or juvaderm ultra plus is: $530

Two syringes: $950

Subq/Voluma (double size syringe and thickest): $900

Two syringes: $1600

One syringe Sub Q/Voluma and one syringe Perlane/Juvaderm ultra plus : $1300