7 Cosmetic Injection Myths

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In popular women's communities on social networks, the topic of cosmetic injections remains one of the hottest. Given that many users have long added magic injections to the arsenal of means to preserve youth and beauty, the injections are still surrounded by a huge number of myths. ForumDaily collected the most common misconceptions and asked Dr. Arman Karapetyan, the head of one of the most popular cosmetic clinics in Los Angeles, for comments.

Misconception 1: Cosmetic injections are Botox.

Botulinum toxin (or Botox) injections are so popular that their name has become collective for all cosmetic injections. But many modern procedures have nothing to do with Botox.

For example, injections with hyaluronic acid and calcium hydroxyapatite are so-called fillers, which allow you to restore facial volume lost with age and straighten the skin. Botox accounts for only 30% of cosmetic injections performed these days, the remaining 70% are fillers.

Misconception 2. Injections should not be done before 45 years

According to Arman Karapetyan, after 25-30 years, all people begin to experience the first age-related changes - collagen and fat leave the subcutaneous tissues, wrinkles and folds appear on the face. Changes can be fast or slow - it depends on heredity, lifestyle, and environment. And if we can get enough sleep, drink more water and protect our skin from the sun, then we cannot influence our own genes. But modern technologies make it possible to “support” the face and prevent a situation where only a circular lift will help.

“Over the past 10 years, the number of facial plastic surgeries in the United States has decreased by 70%. This is a colossal indicator, and the main reason is the appearance of fillers,” says Dr. Karapetyan.

After 30 years, cosmetic injections are a preventive measure, and prevention is usually easier and cheaper than treatment.

Misconception 3. There is a risk to disfigure a person, and anything can impale

From time to time, photographs of victims of unprofessional correction appear in thematic online communities: women show bumps on their faces in places where the gel filler is unevenly distributed, swollen eyes, asymmetrical lips, or folds that have worsened after an injection. Descriptions of the consequences may discourage any desire to give injections, but it is important to know: high-quality drugs and a qualified specialist are the guarantee that the risk of side effects from the injection will be minimal.

And inject “anything” can only the patient who does not want to know what will be in the syringe. In a good clinic, the doctor shows the ampoule from which the drug is taken. In addition, at the stage of choosing a doctor, you can check whether the clinic can work with certified drugs: it is enough to drive a zip code on the manufacturer's website.

Memo from Dr. Karapetyan: how to check the clinic and doctor on the manufacturer's website

Enter the postal code of the area and find out which clinics and doctors nearby work with certified drugs. If you are interested in Botox, check it out here, if Juvederm - here, if Radiesse - check this link, and if Restyline - by this.

Misconception 4. Injections are needed only to remove wrinkles.

Fillers are really just cosmetic preparations, but the range of their applications is still much wider than it seems at first glance. A professional can use fillers for non-surgical nose correction: a small amount of the drug injected above the hump “straightens” the nose, and if the injection is made into the tip of the nose, you can visually lift the drooping tip. The main thing, of course, is that for this you do not need to go under a scalpel and undergo general anesthesia, and there is no long painful healing process. In addition, nothing irreversible happens, and the patient always has a choice - to return to the previous shape after the drug is absorbed or to maintain his new nose with annual injections.

Misconception 5. After injection the face becomes unnatural.

“For the result of the procedure to look natural,” says Arman Karapetyan, “the doctor must have 3 qualities: professionalism, eye and sense of proportion.” The latter, according to the doctor, is also necessary for patients - sometimes their desires exceed the limits of reason, and they insist on too radical changes, especially when it comes to lip correction.

By the way, fillers in small quantities perfectly help restore volume to the lips - with moderate use of the drug there is no appearance of “pumped lips”, the face simply looks more youthful and fresh.

Patients considering Botox injections often fear that their face will turn into a lifeless, motionless mask, but these days this result is a consequence of the doctor's inexperience or abuse of the drug. A person’s face consists of more than 40 muscles, which is why people have such rich facial expressions, and Botox injections are made only into 3-4 muscles, so facial mobility is preserved.

Misconception 6: Cosmetic injections in the US are very expensive and must be done in other countries.

Prices for cosmetic injections in the US may indeed be slightly higher than in Mexico or Ukraine. But this is exactly the case when an attempt to save money can ultimately lead to additional costs - to correct an undesirable result. American specialists regularly have to help out victims of “cosmetology tourism” who were injected with an uncertified drug, and even did not get it into the desired area of ​​the face.

In the USA, the success of a doctor depends on his reputation, and it is not difficult to check the reputation of an American doctor - sites such as Yelp, ZocDoc, HealthGrades are available to potential patients, and the site specializes in reviews of the work of plastic surgeons and cosmetologists RealSelf.

Misconception 7. Injections are addictive, and if you stop the procedure, everything will hang and wrinkle.

This is one of the most enduring and frightening myths about cosmetic injections.

As Dr. Karapetyan explained, the situation is the opposite with Botox: if a person makes injections for several years and then stops, the muscles that were fixed with botulinum toxin will not be as mobile as before injections, and the risk of mimic wrinkles will be lower.

In addition, during the duration of Botox, the patient loses the habit of bad facial habits - for example, he stops wrinkling his forehead.

Fillers really dissolve after a while, but this happens gradually and does not lead to deterioration. On the contrary, some drugs (Radiesse) stimulate the production of own collagen and even after resorption of the filler, the tone of the face remains better than it was before the procedure.

Clinic LA Beauty Skin Center is located in Glendale, California, and offers patients various types of cosmetic injections as well as laser treatments, the most popular of which is the removal of unwanted hair.

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