All treatments
the twelve
Dermal filler
Volume under the skin — lips, cheeks or along the jaw — in the smallest amount that does anything.
Doctor injects
- Minutes: 30 minutes
- Minutes
- Lasts: nine to eighteen months
- Lasts
- Downtime: 1–3 days
- Downtime
- From: from $300 / syringe
- From
What to expect
- before
- Numbing cream, 15 minutes.
- No blood thinners or alcohol for 48 hours.
- Come without make-up.
- during
- The doctor marks, then works.
- A cold pack in your hand throughout.
- Thirty minutes.
- after
- Back to your day.
- No lying down for four hours.
- It looks like itself at once and settles over a week.
What it will not do
A filler does not lift. If what you want is a lift, the honest answer is that this is not it.
Where it works
Volume, at the floor of the dermis and into the fat below it.
Where on the bodyCheeks · Nose · Lips · Jaw & chin
Only the doctor injects, and she will tell you when the answer is no.