What to Expect After Your Dermal Fillers Appointment

Signs of aging like wrinkles and sagging skin can change how you look at yourself. Read on to find out how we can help with dermal fillers and what you should expect after your first treatment.

Your skin is more than just the organ that covers your whole body, lets you touch things, grows hair, and sweats. It also forms a protective barrier that protects you from external harm from viruses, fungi, and bacteria.

But over time, the structural proteins (collagen and elastin) that make up a large part of your skin slow down production, leading to wrinkles and sagging skin.

Injectables help reduce the impact of wrinkles, creases, and fine lines, and dermal fillers are among the most common types. If you’re looking for younger looking skin, our team of Michael Meshkin, MD, and Alister Meshkin, MD, and our staff at Meshkin Medical can help.

Here, we explain more about these fillers, the specific conditions they can treat, and what happens after the procedure.

What are dermal fillers?

This is the term for a series of materials that we can inject into parts of your body to add volume to your skin. Common chemicals used in these injections include hyaluronic acid, calcium hydroxylapatite, poly-L-lactic acid, and polymethylmethacrylate.

Some of these are chemicals your body produces and loses over time, and the effectiveness of the fillers varies from six months to over two years.

The cosmetic problems they treat

These injections can help you with several cosmetic issues, like:

Filling deep scars
Adding volume to deep wrinkles
Reducing the appearance of creases and wrinkles under the eyes and around the lips
Restoring the appearance of sagging skin, like jowls
Plumping cheeks and lips
Reconstructing facial contours

The procedure and what happens after

First, we cleanse your skin and may use an anesthetic cream to prevent discomfort. We place the injections in the parts of your face that need them, then massage them into place to maximize effectiveness.

The process can take about an hour, but times vary depending on the work we do.

Redness and swelling are typical right after the injections, but these side effects go away after two or three days.

Results are visible right away and can last six months or longer. Because fillers are an outpatient procedure, you're able to go right back to your daily routine, though it’s best to avoid intense physical actions for a couple of days.

If you want to find out what dermal fillers can do for your skin, make an appointment with us at Meshkin Medical today to get started. We serve the Orange County and Los Angeles area through our offices in Newport Beach and Glendale, California.