What Can Dermal Fillers Treat?

Dermal fillers can restore volume, enhance facial features, and improve overall facial balance. Common treatment areas include:

• Lips – Add volume, improve definition, enhance hydration, and correct asymmetry.
• Cheeks – Restore youthful fullness, lift the midface, and improve facial contours.
• Chin – Improve projection, balance your profile, and create a stronger facial structure.
• Jawline – Define and contour the jawline for a more sculpted appearance.
• Nasolabial Folds – Soften the smile lines that extend from the nose to the corners of the mouth.
• Marionette Lines – Reduce the lines that run from the corners of the mouth toward the chin.
• Under-Eye Hollows – Restore volume beneath the eyes to reduce a tired appearance (when appropriate).
• Temples – Replace volume lost with aging for improved facial balance.
• Lip Lines – Smooth the fine vertical lines around the mouth.
• Hands – Restore volume to aging hands for a more youthful appearance.

How to Prepare for Your Appointment

To help ensure the best possible results, please let your provider know if you:

• Have received dermal fillers within the past several months.
• Are pregnant or breastfeeding.
• Have any allergies, especially to lidocaine or filler ingredients.
• Have a history of cold sores if you are receiving lip filler.
• Have an active skin infection, rash, or irritation in the treatment area.
• Take blood thinners, aspirin, ibuprofen, fish oil, vitamin E, or certain herbal supplements, as these may increase your risk of bruising. Never stop a prescribed medication without first consulting the healthcare provider who prescribed it.

Whenever possible, avoid alcohol for 24 hours before your appointment to help minimize bruising.

Before Your Treatment

Your provider will discuss your concerns, evaluate your facial anatomy, and develop a customized treatment plan based on your goals. Photographs may be taken to help evaluate your results over time.

During Your Treatment

A topical numbing cream may be applied to improve comfort. Most modern fillers also contain lidocaine, a local anesthetic that helps minimize discomfort during treatment.

Using a fine needle or cannula, your provider will carefully place filler into targeted areas to restore volume and enhance facial contours. Most appointments take 30 to 60 minutes.

After Your Treatment

Mild swelling, redness, tenderness, and bruising are common and usually resolve within several days.

For the best results, we recommend:

• Avoid touching or massaging the treated area unless instructed otherwise.
• Avoid strenuous exercise for 24 hours.
• Avoid excessive heat, saunas, and hot tubs for 24–48 hours.
• Sleep with your head elevated the first night if swelling occurs.
• Apply ice packs as directed to reduce swelling.

Most patients return to normal daily activities immediately.

Results

Dermal filler results are visible immediately, with final results becoming even more natural as any swelling subsides over the following one to two weeks.

Depending on the product used and the treatment area, results typically last 6 to 18 months, although some fillers may last even longer.

Routine maintenance treatments help preserve your results while keeping your appearance refreshed and natural.