The use of soft tissue fillers is becoming increasingly popular. As we age, we lose volume in areas of the face and develop wrinkles. The basic principle is that plumping or filling these soft tissues can improve our appearance and reverse some signs of facial ageing.

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Lip fillers/augmentation, Peri-oral lines, Nasolabial folds and Marionette lines

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Fillers are most commonly used to increase volume in the lips, improve the lines that run from the nose to the corners of the mouth, soften wrinkles in the upper lip and other parts of the face and improve depressions in the skin caused by scars.

 

Non-surgical rhinoplasty or nose reshaping

 

More recently, fillers have become increasingly used as a means of non-surgical rhinoplasty or non-surgical nose reshaping.

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Fillers may be temporary or permanent. Permanent fillers should not be used on the face. Autologous fillers, or fillers from your own body, are also used in some procedures. For example, fat may be removed and reinjected into another area.

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Fillers should only be administered by an appropriately qualified doctor with knowledge of facial anatomy and who has been fully trained to use the product and equipment.

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