subject: A face lift or dermal fillers? [print this page] A face lift or dermal fillers? A face lift or dermal fillers?
Ordinary people will often take their beauty cue from celebrities and others in the public eye, meaning as the pressure builds amongst the rich and famous to look young, so it does with everybody else too. But how can we achieve this youthful look? The first thing to do, before anything else, is to look at your lifestyle, and if you're a heavy drinker, a heavy smoker, a lover of fast foods, or completely averse to regular exercise, address these issues before you look into cosmetic surgery or non-surgical treatments such as dermal fillers.
Stopping smoking, increasing your daily intake of water to the recommended two litres, ensuring you are consuming five portions of fruit and vegetables each day, cutting down your alcohol intake, and exercising for at least 30 minutes each day, are all actions that can dramatically slow down the ageing process, and even reverse it. Give these lifestyle changes six months to kick in and then reassess the way you feel about your appearance, and at this stage, if you still want to achieve a younger look, book in for Computerised Photo Imaging Skin Analysis to get a full profile of the condition of your skin.
This type of analysis takes into account your age and lifestyle, including how much time you spend in the sun or on sun beds, and the results will be explained to you in full by your nurse counsellor. Having the results of this type of analysis at their fingertips means that your nurse or aesthetic practitioner will be able to create a bespoke programme of non-surgical treatments, including dermal fillers, skin peels, medical microdermabrasions and laser treatments, to give you the most effective results. Botox is the most famous dermal filler on the market and it is injected into areas of the face that are affected by lines and wrinkles, or those places that have simply lost a bit of that youthful plumpness. Dermal fillers can also be used to give fuller lips.
But the thing to remember about non-surgical solutions is that their effects are temporary and therefore are not suitable for those who want to reverse and halt the ageing process in its tracks; for these people, a more satisfactory answer would be to consider the three different types of face lift. A traditional face lift is performed on those who want to lift and tighten all the skin on the face, and benefit from permanent muscle tightening and the redistribution of fatty tissue to achieve a younger, firmer face. Keyhole surgery is a better option for those people looking to target particular areas, such as the eyes, brows, forehead or lower face, and the same is true of the latest MACS (Minimal Access Cranial Suspension) procedure.
So, choose carefully between the temporary and the permanent, getting professional advice from registered practitioners before you make any decisions.
