What is filler injection? Should I get filler injection for beauty?

Filler injection is always a popular form of beauty and is very popular today. This is a cosmetic method that helps remove wrinkles and restore youthfulness to women’s skin. So what is filler injection? Should you use this form of beauty or not? Let’s read the following article with Enbi Bao Bao Nail & Spa to find the most detailed answer!

What is filler injection?

Filler injection is a cosmetic procedure that uses fillers injected under your skin to cover up wrinkles, facial flaws and restore beauty. Thanks to filler injection, women can reduce signs of aging, possess a slim, youthful face. Normally, the filler injection process only takes about half an hour with an extremely fast recovery time. Immediately after that, women can get the results they want.

Popular types of fillers

Currently, there are many popular types of fillers on the market such as synthetic fillers (using artificial materials) or natural fillers found in your own body. Here are some of the most commonly used fillers on the market:

• Hyaluronic Acid (HA): A type of acid produced naturally by the body with a moisturizing effect that helps your skin become softer. Usually, when you inject HA, you will receive a beauty effect that lasts from 6 months to 12 months.
• Calcium Hydroxyapatite (CaHA): This is a type of filler found in human bones with a filling effect that lasts for about 1 year. CaHA is often applied by doctors to deep wrinkles to cover up facial flaws in women.
• Poly-L-Lactic Acid (PLLA): A substance that can help our body create collagen. Doctors often use PLLA when they want to smooth deep wrinkles on women’s faces. Typically, PLLA has a filling effect that lasts for about 2 years.
• Polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA): With very small balls that sit under the skin and collagen to increase volume, giving your skin a firmer look.

What is the use of filler injection?

It is not by chance that filler injections receive so much attention today. Because after the research process, women have discovered that fillers have many wonderful uses, specifically as follows:

• Overcoming sagging by increasing the volume of the injected skin area.
• Helping the face to be more balanced by filling in the defects on women’s faces.
• Returning a youthful appearance to your skin and overcoming all wrinkles on the face.
• Slimming the face and helping the skin to be more youthful and tightened.

Who is suitable for filler injection?

According to the FDA, people aged 22 and over are suitable for filler injections with the need to use fillers to:

• Improve and correct wrinkles or fat loss on the face.
• Want to increase fullness for the chin, hollows under the eyes, lips, cheeks, jawline and back of the hand.
• Improve acne scars on the cheeks of women.

In addition, suitable subjects for filler injections are:

• People with facial defects, wanting to have a high, straight nose, slim chin…
• Have a need for beauty but do not want to use a knife for surgery.
• People with wrinkles in the forehead area, corners of the eyes, eye bags… Need filler injections to restore youthfulness to their face.
• People who want to have plump lips.
• Filler injections are suitable for those who are busy and do not have much time to perform complicated surgeries or procedures.

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Advantages and disadvantages of filler injection

Below are some advantages and disadvantages of filler injections that you should know, let’s find out now!

Advantage

In fact, filler injections have many outstanding advantages, specifically as follows:

• You can get immediate results when choosing to beautify with filler injections.
• Filler injections are often extremely fast, less than 1 hour for all stages to be completed.
• Compared to other beauty methods, the recovery time after filler injections is very short.
• Compared to other forms of surgery, skin beautification with fillers is less expensive.
• Depending on the type of filler, the results of filler injections can last from several months to several years.

Disadvantages

In addition to the advantages, filler injections also have some potential risks, complications, and side effects. Here are some risks you should know before choosing to apply this form of beauty for yourself:

• Bleeding, swelling, pain, redness, or bruising.
• Skin damage and scarring may occur.
• In many cases, infection or necrosis may occur.
• Numbness, or lumps or bumps under the skin may appear.
• Skin rash, acne, or itching.

If you detect the above problems, or feel uncomfortable after filler injections, you need to go to a medical facility immediately for timely treatment.

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Should I get filler injections for beauty?

In fact, if applied correctly, filler injection is an extremely safe form of beauty. However, remember that, to achieve the best results, you need to research carefully before choosing a beauty address and a highly specialized doctor, to limit any unnecessary risks.

Currently, there are many types of fillers advertised to be effective for many years, even permanently. Doctors advise customers not to use this type of filler because it can cause many side effects and effective treatment is also very difficult.

The mushrooming of underground cosmetic facilities has led to the use of poor quality fillers of unknown origin and performed by unlicensed and unskilled medical staff. In this case, you should not inject fillers because you may encounter dangerous complications.

In particular, you also need to remember the cases of injecting fillers that are not approved according to FDA warnings such as:

• Do not inject fillers into the buttocks, breasts or spaces between muscles to improve the body on a large scale or to contour the body. Because this can cause many serious injuries such as prolonged pain, infection, scarring, permanent disfigurement, or even death.
• Do not inject fillers into the skin using needle-less injection devices. These devices often have difficulty controlling the position of the filler and use high pressure, so when injected into the skin, it is very easy to create serious wounds. In some cases, it can even cause permanent damage to the lips, skin and eyes.
• Do not arbitrarily buy or use fillers sold directly outside. Because these fillers are not strictly inspected, they are very susceptible to chemicals and disease-causing viruses.

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Important notes women need to know

So what should you pay attention to when injecting fillers? See the content below for detailed information!

Before doing

Before undergoing filler injections, you should note:

• Go to the hospital for a thorough consultation with a specialist and check, evaluate, and confirm the areas that need filler injections. The doctor will also recommend suitable fillers and advise you on recovery time and possible side effects.
• Answer your doctor’s questions honestly about the medications you are taking, your medical history, and allergies.

After filler injection

After injecting filler, you need to note the following points:

• The doctor will clean the injection area again, along with applying therapies that reduce pain and swelling for you. After injection, swelling, pain or discomfort are common side effects, which will disappear completely after a few days.
• Right after injecting filler, you will immediately notice the results, however, how long it can last depends on many factors and the physical condition of each person.

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Conclusion

Above is some information to answer what filler injection is and what you need to know. Hopefully the above sharing of Enbi Bao Bao Nail & Spa is useful to you. If you have any questions, please contact us for answers!