There are a pair of challenges affecting your appearance as you get older. Your skin starts to change and lose volume while it becomes harder to lose or maintain weight, and when you get the upper hand on body mass, dry and lax skin can leave you with a gaunt and hollow appearance.
Dr. Richard Blanchar and our team at Bayview General Medicine know that losing weight can be a hollow victory if you’re not happy with your appearance. We recommend dermal fillers to restore volume and define your once-youthful contours, which have changed due to aging and weight loss.
Weight loss changes the balance of fat to lean tissue in your body. Collagen supports your skin, providing a firm, plump, youthful appearance.
As you age, your skin’s supply of collagen begins to decline; the volume loss causes your outer skin layers to loosen, sag, and wrinkle.
When you’re overweight, you may not notice the collagen loss, but once you shed the extra subdermal fat tissue as part of your weight loss efforts, you realize just how much collagen has disappeared now that fat deposits no longer compensate.
The result is that your face loses volume and becomes too thin.
Dermal fillers are injectable treatments that solve the problem of loose skin, lines, and wrinkles. Formulations from various manufacturers settle into voids in the collagen matrix to buttress skin that’s fallen into the crevasses left by lost collagen.
However, every filler product has its own formulation, and manufacturers generally provide various products with different characteristics. Some fillers remain close to the injection point as spot fillers, while other formulas spread more diffusely, adding well-blended volume.
Volumizing fillers are ideal when weight loss leaves your face with too little natural “padding.” Products like Radiesse® volumizing filler, Sculptra® Aesthetic, Restylane Lyft®, and Juvederm Voluma® XC target areas that typically suffer from the effects of weight loss.
You might consider volumizing fillers to counter weight-loss effects like:
This range of volumizing fillers gives Dr. Blanchar a veritable palette of products, each with its own ideal application to match the contours you want to reshape.
Call Bayview General Medicine to schedule a consultation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or book your appointment online now.
