Bellafill® will be carefully guided under your skin to augment, or fill, wrinkles, folds and scars. Bellafill® adds volume and shape to the treated area. Following the injection, treated areas may be gently massaged after 24-48 hours unless instructed otherwise by one of our expert beauty injectors.
You should massage after having injectable filler in areas where the skin is thinner, such as the lips or lower eyelids, but massaging too much and in other areas could actually break down the filler, resulting in less volume. Or it may cause filler migration.
Massaging: Don't massage the area or lay on the treated areas, as we don't want the filler to move around while it settles. Massaging or putting pressure on the area can cause migration, where the filler moves around to an area where it shouldn't.
Granulomas, lumps, and swelling have been reported in Bellafill® patients and may form years after injection. Granulomas, lumps, and swelling frequently resolve over time or with treatment.
Most dermal fillers require three to seven days to settle into the skin, and that is when results from treatment begin to show. For this filler, the recovery time is between seven and 10 days, which is when any swelling and redness to the skin should disappear completely.
Bellafill is considered a long term, semi-permanent dermal filler. This means that once it is injected, it cannot be dissolved or removed from the treated area. Unlike hyaluronic acid dermal fillers that can be removed or dissolved with hyaluronidase injections, PMMA stays put in the skin once it is injected there.
Answer: After performing thousands of syringes of Bellafill over the last 7 years, half of my patients returning 9-12 months later notice that their Bellafill looks even better than after the initial treatment.
If you can only feel the lumps and not see them, then panic even less, because this isn't usually a problem. If you can see the lumps. Keep your eye on them. Perform gentle massage (only if recommended by your injector) and if you can still see a lump at 4 weeks, contact your doctor.
One way of treating it is to smooth lumps out by providing a firm massage around the area. If you are in unbearable pain, you should seek medical help as you may have an allergic reaction to the filler or you may have a more serious complication that requires immediate attention, although this is very rare.
Hard and tender lumps suggest that your body might have reacted to the filler. A mild allergic reaction can be sorted out quickly and easily by a prescription of steroids, which our aesthetic medical professional can provide you with. This prescription is available at most pharmacies.
If you're unhappy with your appearance after treatment with dermal fillers, you need to notify your injector and reach out to a qualified plastic surgeon to perform the correction.
Avoid sunbathing, tanning, and any other intense heat, such as hot tubs, steam rooms or saunas. Excess sun and heat can degrade the hyaluronic acid found in many dermal fillers and reduce the intended effects.
So while the body naturally breaks them down over time, there is a way to speed up the process: Injections of hyaluronidase. Hyaluronidase is what the body produces naturally to break down fillers, so by injecting more, it allows the lips to regain natural shape quicker, usually going down within 3-4 days.
Stress can have a negative impact on our health in a number of ways, but one that you might not have considered is its effect on lip fillers. The extra hormones that your body produces when you're stressed can actually cause filler to break down more quickly, deflating your pout ahead of schedule.
Yes, you can but it may be a bit tender and the kisses should be gentle! And in order to increase the longevity of your fillers, you should avoid touching the area for at least 2 days, so avoid wearing lipstick or applying lip balms.
There are many reasons lumps and bumps occur after a wrinkle filler treatment: The filler is injected too superficially. Too much filler product is injected into one area. The filler moves to create a large deposit in an area.
Dissolve the filler with hyaluronidase enzyme such as Vitrase or Hylenix. These enzymes, when injected, will cause hyaluronic acid based fillers to completely dissolve within about 5 minutes, with repeated massage.
Typically, they are treated with intralesional steroids and hyaluronidase with good resolution. If no clinical response is seen, a biofilm should be suspected and the patient should be placed on broad-spectrum antibiotics for a minimum of 4 weeks that include quinolones and macrolides.
Do I massage my lips after lip fillers? Do not massage your lips for 24 to 48 hours after the treatment. Once your swelling subsides down, you can gently massage your lips with light pressure.
Unlike HA fillers, Bellafill's composition boosts collagen production. It jumpstarts the process and then your body maintains after treatment. Patients enjoy instant results after Bellafill treatment due to the collagen in the formulation. Over time the microspheres of PMMA create structure within the skin.
While some may only need 3 syringes between both cheeks, others require 5 or 6 syringes depending the degree of volume loss. When 3, 4 or 6 syringes are needed, having one syringe injected at a time will likely result in the Bellafill lasting well under 5 years with suboptimal improvement.
As with all injectable wrinkle fillers, you can expect swelling and bruising in the treatment area. Swelling usually goes away completely after 10 days but if you had Bellafill under your eyes it, in rare cases, can last up to 3 months.
Because Bellafill is known to typically last 5 years, this filler works well in conjunction with the neck-jowl lift which can also give long-lasting results. Many patients are willing to pay more for less invasive surgery and longer lasting fillers.
Dr Abbasi adds that if it has been more than three months and fillers have been injected in multiple areas around the face, she won't dissolve them with hyaluronidase. “This is because the fillers have become intertwined with the collagen network in your skin so in essence, they have become part of the skin,” she says.