Dermal Filler Treatment

Injectable fillers can instantly soften telltale ageing lines or improve your looks by enhancing your natural features, such as your cheeks or lips. They also restore volume, improve skin elasticity, and smooth niggling lines and imperfections.

Injectable fillers are usually a crystal-clear gel produced biotechnologically using stabilised, non-animal hyaluronic acid and water. The hyaluronic acid is a tissue-friendly substance closely resembling the hyaluronic acid that occurs naturally in the skin and the body. By replenishing nature’s supply of hyaluronic acid, dermal fillers revitalise and plump up your skin, instantly diminishing the appearance of lines and giving a softer look.

Injectable fillers can be used virtually anywhere on the body, from smoothing out facial lines, creating fuller lips and shaping facial contours, as well as being used in your cheeks and chin. It’s a subtle approach to enhancing your looks naturally. The most commonly treated areas are: from the nose to the angle of the mouth (the nasolabial folds), lips (enhancement), cheeks and chin (shaping), back of the hands, décolletage, face (skin rejuvenation) and between your eyebrows (the glabellar lines).

Dermal filler is safe and effective when administered by an experienced professional, but as with any procedure, it’s important to be aware of the side effects.

Common side effects include swelling, bruising, pain, redness, rashes or itching. However, if these are experienced, they usually clear up in a few days.

Rare side effects include nodules around the injection site, infection, leaking filler, movement of the filler from one location to another, granulomas, and blocked blood flow.

You may have seen certain celebrities photographed over the years with a puffy face — the undesirable ‘pillow face’ look. This is usually a result of over-injection of dermal fillers. At Karidis, natural-looking results are paramount — an integral part of our ethos. We are conservative in our use of dermal fillers, and using skill and experience, we ensure that the results are wholly natural and aesthetically pleasing.

You should be able to return to your normal activities straight away. But this can vary from person to person. Some people need one or two days of downtime after dermal filler treatment. The Karidis team will be on hand to advise and support you.

One of the great advantages of the various hyaluronic acid fillers is that the effects are long-lasting but not permanent. This is good because the face and body are not static and change with time. It’s usually not a good idea to inject a long-acting or permanent filler into a part of the body or face that undergoes change over time. The longevity of the products varies from individual to individual, however, as rough guidelines the following apply:

Facial lines and facial shaping: follow-up treatment or top-up is usually needed after approximately six months. However, after two or three treatments have been administered, the time interval between injections can increase to 12 or 18 months as some collagen build up starts to occur, which in itself fills the area.

Lip enhancement: follow-up treatment is normally needed in about six months.

Skin rejuvenation and deep hydration: after the initial intense treatment of three treatment sessions every 2 – 3 weeks, follow-up sessions are normally recommended around every six months. Duration depends on many factors, such as your skin type, lifestyle, age, the degree of perfection demanded by the patient and the injection technique of the practitioner.