Contour - Fixed visual problems

Contour - a complex procedure, which can eliminate most of the characteristic signs of aging Aging Skin: The three most common problems and their solutions   and age-related changes. Contour allows you to make clearer "deliquescent" age facial contours, smooth wrinkles and lines, get rid of nasolabial folds. There are two main methods for contouring - the injection of special drugs, muscle relaxants, to relax, to "freeze" the facial muscles, and the injection of so-called gels-fillers, filling voids in the tissues.

Contour with injecting muscle relaxants

The so-called muscle relaxants - are drugs that temporarily paralyze the activity of the facial muscles, resulting in a permanent reduction that produce wrinkles (such as the famous "crow's feet", fine wrinkles around the eyes and vertical deep lines in the area between the eyebrows - so-called "furrow anger "). The most common drugs, muscle relaxants - Botox and Dysport injections which temporarily "freeze" the facial muscles, and at the same time smoothing wrinkles and preventing the formation of new mimic wrinkles for a certain period of time.

Botox is used in cosmetics for decades: initially, back in the sixties, this drug is used to eliminate the effects of certain neurological disorders, and the end of the eighties as actively used and to fight against aging skin .  Contouring procedure with Botox involves injecting small doses of the drug under the skin through a thin needle directly into muscle tissue .  On average, Botox takes effect in two or three days after the injection, gradually "freezing" the muscles, weakening their activity for a specified period .  Especially effective contouring with the use of Botox and other muscle relaxants for the correction of wrinkles in the upper part of the face - on the forehead, around the eyes .  Furthermore, this method of contouring and can be applied to smooth out wrinkles in the area around the mouth .  The average duration of the muscle relaxant is from three to six months - during this period, the skin is perfectly smooth and even, new wrinkles are formed .

Contour with gels-fillers

Another method of contouring that eliminates most of the age-related changes appearance - a special injection drugs, the so-called gels-fillers based on hyaluronic acid, a natural substance which, when injected under the skin does not cause rejection by the body. This method allows contouring wrinkles by filling the voids formed in the tissues, eliminate nasolabial folds, to make a clearer shape of the face. Simultaneously gels fillers may also be used for other purposes - for example, to increase the volume of lips (including correction for the volume of lips which become thinner with age) or shape correction cheekbones.

For correction of age-related changes of the skin, the following drugs:

• Restylane: bio-gel based on stabilized hyaluronic acid (based on the formula of the drug - acid of non-animal origin).
• Juvederm: Biogel-intra dermal filler, which, in addition to hyaluronic acid include a small amount of lidocaine.
• Sudzhiderm: Another formulation based on hyaluronic acid non-animal origin, most plastic today gel filler.

Contouring procedure using gels-fillers is extremely simple: under the skin using a fine needle inserted a small amount of the drug, and then performed a special massage that allows to redistribute introduced gel filler. A significant advantage of such a variety of plastic is that the risk of allergic reactions Allergic reactions: how to understand why you tickle in the throat   and any complications after injection of essentially zero. In addition, hyaluronic acid stimulates the natural process of collagen and elastin fibers - the natural "skeleton" of the skin which provides it strength and elasticity.

How is the procedure

Hyaluronic acid - is the basis of the effectiveness of contouring. It is capable of holding a large amount of liquid, making the skin supple and hydrated by stimulating the synthesis of elastin and collagen that supports the skin carcass threads inside. When their stocks thinning, begin problems such as sagging, thinning, wrinkles and deep facial fine. Besides cosmetic defects that occur over time, you can adjust the shape of little lips, cheeks, chin, nose, if they seem insufficiently expressive or asymmetric.

Select a product for contouring will help the doctor who tells a preliminary consultation on the possibilities, advantages and disadvantages of each. All these agents are biocompatible gels that dissolve over time and completely excreted. The period until the new appearance will delight you, covers up to 12 months, after which the injection procedure can be repeated.

After the injection of the drug for contouring approved by your doctor, you can safely go to the procedure. It takes about 30 minutes depending on the area of ​​treatment. Injections are almost imperceptible to the patient, however, can sometimes make local anesthesia.

If you need to fill in wrinkles, the gel is a thin needle is injected directly into the crease along its entire length, lip augmentation, and smoothing fine lines around - in their path. With the introduction of specialist massages the area where the gel is put to better adapt it more natural look.

Immediately after the procedure the patient can go home - stationary observation is not required, but you need to follow certain guidelines. They are standard: avoid extreme temperatures, do not go to the bath Sauna and health: the benefits and harms of bath procedures , Sauna, not to the treatment area to intensive mechanical stress, protects against ultraviolet radiation. By the way, you can use make-up the next day after the injection.

Contraindications for contouring

• silicone present in the intended injection site;
• pregnancy and lactation;
• intolerance to the drug;
• recent cosmetic procedures in the area of ​​the injection site (peeling, grinding, laser processing);
• local irritation, inflammation, and severe skin disease Skin diseases - what to do when violated the basic functions of the skin   different etiologies (viral, fungal);
• oncology;
• immune diseases;
• hemophilia.

In contouring great advantages over surgery. First - it's security in the absence of contraindications, and reversible if the patient does not like the result. There are defects in which contouring preferable to surgery, for example, has a fine mesh of wrinkles around the eyes or lips. What is remarkable - surgery, no matter how effective it may be, will not give the skin a fresh and healthy look, just smoothing it, eliminating wrinkles. Preparations contouring, solving many of the problems of appearance, do not force the skin to something for her dangerous or unnatural, and vice versa - giving it the necessary hyaluronic acid, are pushing to mobilize their own forces in the struggle for youth and beauty.

Eugene Zhirkina