Injectables – BOTOX® Cosmetic and More

Injectables such as BOTOX® Cosmetic, the Restylane® dermal filler, and fat transfer treatments offered from our San Francisco office help combat the signs of aging while remaining natural looking.

There are patients who come in with, you know, just minor concerns. Minor being wrinkles and depressions in the face that can be treated with nonsurgical techniques and the things that we use are a combination of fillers and Botox, and a Botox is great for actually softening lines and how it works is that it actually makes the muscle less active. A filler, on the other hand, if you were totally relaxed and there was a line there then the Botox wouldn't able to fix that. So fillers tend to fix lines that are static and the fillers that we use are Restylane, which is very common. We also use Juvederm, which is another Hylaform type of filler. Fillers go away. They are temporary and they do stay in general about six months and so what we do is we also use fat, which is a filler which is something natural and comes from your own body. There is no chance of rejection. We use that in the areas of lip, the nasolabial creases which is here and around the eyes we also use that. I usually say a combination because mostly we are doing a combination of both.