No matter your age, you always want to look your best. Yet, as you age the fat cells and support structure that is beneath your skin change. Your fat cells start to lose their volume and start to group together and shift downward giving your skin a looser and saggier look. Your skin begins to look less smooth and hydrated because your body is not producing the same amounts of collagen, elastin, or hyaluronic acid as you did when you were younger. This is noticed in your cheeks, around your eyes, your nose, and the area around your mouth, including your lips.
What Is Hyaluronic Acid?
Hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring substance that is found throughout your body including your eyes, joints, and skin. Some of the benefits of hyaluronic acid include:
- It acts as a natural lubricant for your joints
- It helps to prevent the pain of your bones grinding against each other
- It keeps parts of your body hydrated and has been used in moisturizing creams, lotions, ointments, and serums
- It keeps your skin flexible by helping your skin stretch and flex. It reduces lines and wrinkles in the skin.
- It helps you heal faster and reduces scarring
Your levels of hyaluronic acid decrease as you age. As a result, your skin becomes thinner and drier and doesn’t hold its shape as well as it did when you were younger. Have you lost facial volume? Signs that you may be losing facial volume include the following:
- Your skin has become dry
- Your skin is loose and your cheeks are sagging
- You have developed lines and wrinkles
- The creases on either side of your nose have become deeper
- Your lips have become thinner and you have developed thin lines above your lips
What The Juvéderm® Collection Of Fillers Can Do For You
The FDA-approved Juvéderm® Collection of Fillers can help restore and rejuvenate your skin and bring back facial volume without the need for surgery. Juvéderm® contains a modified form of hyaluronic acid and the collection of Juvéderm® fillers can provide you with natural results and a visible difference in your appearance.
Juvéderm® is the number one dermal filler in the United States and offers five different long-lasting fillers that can restore temporary volume to the different areas of your face, depending on your needs.
How Do You Know Which Juvéderm® Filler You Need?
Depending on the areas of your face where you need volume, the following fillers in the Juvéderm® Collection of fillers may be used as follows:
Juvéderm® Voluxtm XC injectable gel is used to improve moderate to a severe loss of jawline definition.
Juvéderm® Voluma® XC Injectable gel is used in the cheek area to correct age-related volume loss and to augment the chin region to improve the chin profile.
Juvéderm® Vollure® XC, Juvéderm® Ultra Plus XC, and Juvéderm® Ultra XC injectable gels are used for the correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds.
Juvéderm® Ultra XC injectable gel is used to augment the lips and perioral area.
Juvéderm® Volbella® XC injectable gel is used for lip augmentation and the correction of perioral lines. It is also used for the area under the eyes to improve the appearance of undereye hollows.
Do you want to regain your youthful appearance? Contact the New York City practice of SkinTight MedSpa to schedule your Juvéderm® appointment. Begin to restore your lost facial volume and facial contours by calling our office today.
