Botox vs. Fillers: Which One Is Better for You?

The effect of gravity plays an important role in skin aging, with the decrease in the regeneration and flexibility capacity of the tissue. Non-surgical methods can be used to obscure and, if possible, eliminate superficial and deep wrinkles on the skin. Botox and fillers are at the forefront of these methods.

Which One Is Better for You?

Botox

This method is applied on the basis of creating temporary paralysis in the muscles under the wrinkles. When the muscles are paralyzed, they remain motionless, so many wrinkles disappear because the skin on them does not stretch and contract.

While Botox application creates miraculous results in a way, its frequent and high doses cause the person to have an expressionless, confused and dull facial expression. In such a case, the patient has to spend an average of six months with this statement.

The most common complication is drooping of the upper eyelid, which disappears after a while. Botox application is not recommended except for crow’s feet stretching like a halo around the eyes, vertical lines extending between both eyebrows and making the person angry, forehead lines, mane on the throat skin seen in advanced age, and eyebrow lifting operations applied in some cases.

Fillers

Method; It is applied to fill the bottom of deep grooves and make them less obvious, or to inflate areas that are desired to be prominent, such as lips and cheekbones.

Two different materials are used in fillers applications. The first group consists of products containing hyaluronic acid, collagen or hydroxyapatite. However, the fact that these products are not permanent and the need to be repeated in six months to one year makes the application costly.

In the second group, there is “autogenous fat graft” taken from the patient’s own body. Since the filler is taken from the patient’s body and contains stem cells, it gives brightness and vitality to the skin. This material, which does not pose any risk to health; It can be easily used in large volume changes such as breast augmentation, hip and hip enlargement.

The targeted skin appearance can be achieved within three weeks following the application. The disadvantages of the method are that it is slightly more costly than ready-made fillings and that a second application may be required because some of the fat put in the first application melts.

Conclusion

The general opinion is that botox and fillers are alternative or competing applications. However, these two non-surgical methods complement each other. For example, pitting and grooves that exist when your face is completely still are called “static wrinkles”. These wrinkles can only be treated by filling them with fillers. The wrinkles that are not seen when the face is motionless but appear when the mimic muscles are working are expressed as “dynamic wrinkles”. This problem is treated with botox application, by limiting the movement of mimic muscles.