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Why Face Lift Better Than Filler?

While every year, nonsurgical treatments such as dermal fillers are becoming more common, they still stop short of the anti-aging results you can obtain with a facelift in several respects. In delivering a more youthful-looking appearance, facelifts are still the gold standard, and for good cause.

A quick, non-invasive cure for even the deepest lines and wrinkles on your face is offered by the rapidly evolving landscape of dermal fillers (such as Juvederm and Restylane) and Botox. In only minutes, you can attain a cleaner and more youthful appearance, but the disadvantage is that you have to be careful for a regular injection schedule to retain the look. For more detailed information about this operation, you can review our Face Lift page.

Injectables minimal capacity

face lift surgeryInjectables are increasing in vogue, but many people do not know that what they can achieve has limitations. Botox will smooth and calm the muscles that allow those lines to develop if your primary concern is forehead furrows. Juvederm and Restylane are the solution if you are trying to combat the lack of volume in your cheeks or lips, as well as lines across the nose and teeth.  Although if you have extra loose skin that causes jowls and sagging, there isn’t anything that injectables can do to fix that.

Although the need for more intrusive processes can stave off fillers, they could not take the place of what a facelift can do for you. When doing a facelift, the aim of so many surgeons is to maintain you looking like yourself, just younger. That’s technically just the aim of fillers, but you might end up appearing overdone and unhealthy if you ignore the limitations of injectables.

But Aren’t Fillers More Cost-Effective?

While it might look at first as if fillers are a more cost-effective choice than facelift surgery, if you add up the total cost of preserving your youthful beauty with fillers, they might potentially end up being much more costly. Fillers can end up costing thousands of dollars per year, based on the injectables you choose, the number, and the period of time between sessions.

Picking the appropriate procedure for the appropriate purposes

An skilled injector will refresh your face and keep you looking natural if you are under the age of 50 and are only looking for a little boost in smoothness and volume. However, whether you have formed jowls or extra loose skin on your face and body, the error that many people make is that they want to apply enough bulk to cover it instead of removing the loose skin surgically.

A surgical facelift’s aim is to lift and smooth sagging skin, return it to a more youthful state, and remove jowls and extra skin. A facelift will fill those hollows a little bit if you already have a lack of facial thickness, so you can ultimately to undergo fat grafting or apply fillers to maximize the performance. The critical point is that a facelift will do that better than an abundance of fillers if your aim is to look fresh without feeling as if you had work completed.