Here at Meyer Clinic, as a provider of tailored aesthetic treatments and therapies, we often consult with clients keen to augment their beauty, freshen and reinvigorate their appearance, and smooth the lines, wrinkles, texture, and skin laxity that are common as we age.
Two of the most in-demand options include anti-wrinkle injections and dermal fillers, but these treatments are commonly confused despite the fact that they work in very different ways. The optimal solutions will depend entirely on the changes you’d like to make and any current concerns you may have.
Let’s clarify all you need to know about these aesthetic approaches, when and how they are most effective, the types of issues we may recommend either anti-wrinkle injections or dermal fillers for, and why some of the most reputable brands have become a byword for beauty.
Should you have any remaining questions or wish to book a convenient time to stop by the clinic for a chat with one of the Meyer Clinic team members, you are warmly welcome to do so.
How Are Juvederm Dermal Fillers and Anti-Wrinkle Injections Different?
We’ll start by clarifying that Juvéderm itself is a brand, but one of the best-known types of dermal fillers, as an FDA-approved product that uses hyaluronic acid as its main active ingredient.
However, there are also numerous types of Juvéderm treatments and alternative dermal filler brands, each with specific uses and applications. These range from softening deeper lines to restoring fullness to the cheeks and chin augmentation, reducing the visible appearance of lines around the lips, and adding volume and definition to lip lines.
Although both anti-wrinkle and dermal filler treatments are administered through facial injections, using fine-grade needles to minimise any discomfort, the way in which they work is very different:
- Anti-wrinkle injections block nerve signals and are injected into specific muscles. They use the botulinum toxin, a purified type of protein which stops the muscle from contracting. This results in relaxed muscles and reduced wrinkles and lines on the skin’s surface.
- Dermal fillers are also injected under the surface of the skin, adding fullness and volume. They can be used, for example, to replace volume around hollowed cheekbones following age-related weight loss, to boost natural lip volume, or to augment a more youthful appearance by combatting more severe facial wrinkles and lines.
As this concise comparison shows, both treatments can be good ways to reduce signs of ageing or lessen the impact of wrinkles and lines. However, as always, we recommend an advanced facial analysis to identify the exact treatment area, muscles, or aspects of your skin causing concern before suggesting the right options.
Selecting Aesthetic Injectables Based on Concerns or Treatment Sites
Importantly, facial fillers and anti-wrinkle injections aren’t always an either-or decision. It is certainly possible to combine both treatments following a bespoke skin analysis to ensure you make informed, confident decisions.
Having aesthetic treatments administered by a properly licensed practitioner enables you to optimise the outcomes of either option, smoothing longer-standing wrinkles, restoring lost volume, sculpting facial contours, and relaxing dynamic lines for an overall refreshed appearance.
As a general guide, the main uses for each treatment option tend to be as follows:
- Dermal fillers are used to add volume or ‘fill’ wrinkles and deep lines around the cheeks, lips, lip lines, jowls, marionette lines, and a recessed or weak chin. This makes them ideal for non-surgical treatments to augment your profile or jawline definition, whether or not you have concerns about wrinkles and ageing.
- Anti-wrinkle injections are better suited to managing dynamic lines, which appear when you smile, laugh, frown, or squint. They are often used to reduce eleven lines between the eyebrows, forehead and frown lines, smile lines, and crow’s feet. They are also suited to non-surgical brow lifts and treatment of teeth grinding.
This means that if you have static wrinkles that are deeper set and visible continuously, dermal fillers may be ideal, whereas dynamic wrinkles that are beginning to cause concern could be better managed with targeted anti-wrinkle injections.
If you have several concerns or want to tackle static lines and dynamic wrinkles or use anti-wrinkle injections while evening out ridges, recessed areas, or deviations in your cheeks, nose, or chin region, a combination is more appropriate.
Why a Professional Consultation is Key to Deciding Between Anti-Wrinkle Injections and Dermal Fillers
One of our guiding philosophies is 360-degree holistic care. We provide bespoke, professional support to ensure that every client takes control over their appearance, health, well-being, and self-confidence.
This also means that, rather than administering anti-wrinkle injections or dermal fillers on demand, we prefer to listen to the underlying reasons you’d like to schedule an aesthetic treatment. This gives us the opportunity to view your face and features as a whole, since the outcomes of heavy-handed or unnecessary injectables are well known.
Creating perfect symmetry, completely natural results that enhance your existing appearance, and focusing on a gentle touch to ensure you look rested, refreshed and vibrant ensures our clients never appear to have had ‘work done’ but embrace their unique beauty with a little help from our dedicated team.
Choosing the Most Effective Ways to Enhance Your Natural Appearance and Skin Quality
Even if both anti-wrinkle injections and dermal fillers would be suitable, there are contrasts. The former usually needs to be administered every three to six months to sustain the results, whereas fillers can last up to one year or more, with less frequent maintenance appointments.
Some clients may also have had previous allergic reactions to specific aesthetic treatments, in which case we may suggest an alternative, either to avoid triggering a sensitivity or because their personal preferences indicate they would like to try a different approach.
Our advice, as always, is to book a private consultation with one of our highly accomplished aesthetic practitioners.
During this appointment, we can chat about the improvements you’d like to make to your appearance, discuss the respective pros and cons of these and other regenerative and rejuvenation therapies, and schedule a skin analysis or Aura 3D imaging session to show you what the results of your preferred treatments would look like.
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