Fiona is a Registered Nurse Prescriber trained in Aesthetics offering Botox and dermal fillers at The Beauty Haven in Felsted to suit your individual needs. Fiona is insured with Hamilton Fraser and is a member of the Royal College of Nurses and British Association of Cosmetics Nurses. Contact Fiona to arrange a Free Consultation to discuss treatment options. Anti-wrinkle injections, commonly know
n as Botox injections can be used to reduce the appearance of lines on your face including frown lines, crow’s feet and forehead lines. This results in a smoother appearance of the lines and wrinkles. As you age, repeated contraction of facial muscles causes lines and wrinkles to appear on the face. So the injection of Botox into these muscles relaxes them, keeping them from contracting. It works by relaxing the nerve impulses that tell muscles to contract. Treatment with Botox injections takes around 20 minutes to complete. In general, it takes 7-10 days to start seeing the effects of the Botox injections. These results generally last up to 3 months, however this differs between each individual. If you have repeat treatments of Botox, the results from each subsequent treatment will last slightly longer as your muscles become used to remaining in a ‘relaxed’ state. If you stop having Botox injections your wrinkles will gradually go back to how they were prior to your initial treatment. They will not appear in a worse condition than when you began the treatments. Dermal fillers are used to introduce volume back in to areas of the face that have lost volume during the ageing process. The underlying tissue of our skin that plumps up and helps us to look youthful starts to break down as we age. This often leaves us with unwanted laughter lines, smile lines, crow’s feet and deep creases over the area where movement occurs. But thanks to dermal fillers we now have a way of correcting these unwanted lines on our face. Dermal fillers are made from hyaluronic acid (a naturally occurring substance found in the body) suspended in a gel. When injected underneath the skin, they improve the appearance of wrinkles and replace volume that has been lost due to the ageing process. Dermal fillers are used to add volume back into your face that is lost as you start to age. This can be in a number of different areas:
•Cheeks
•Naso-labial folds (nose-to-mouth lines)
•Marionette lines (lines from the corner of your mouth to your chin)
•Corners of the mouth that can sometimes make you look unhappy
•Smoker’s lines (the vertical lines above the lip that appear when you pout)
•The lip itself (either the body of the lip for fullness or the border for definition)
•The nose (to reshape and straighten)
•Tear troughs (the lines under your eyes that make you look tired)
The dermal filler treatment can take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the number of areas to be treated.The results from this treatment will be seen immediately. The length of time these results will last differs between each individual, the type of dermal filler used and the area that is treated. Hyaluronic acid is something that our body naturally breaks up and those with a higher metabolism will break the product up quicker than those with a slow metabolism. If you have the dermal filler injected into somewhere with a lot of movement such as your lips, this will also result in the product being broken down quicker. However, on average the dermal fillers can last anywhere between 3 and 18 months. With repeated treatments, the benefits of dermal fillers build up so that the effects will be greater and will stay for a longer period of time.
