How Botox and Fillers Can Rejuvenate Your Eyes and Face

Your body is constantly going through changes. Nowhere is this more obvious than on your skin, where changes in firmness, flexibility, and moisture cause many issues over time, including wrinkles. 

Several factors cause wrinkles, and people often become more self-conscious when they appear on their faces.

To look younger by reducing the appearance of wrinkles, injectables like dermal fillers and Botox® have given millions of people options for improving their skin without invasive cosmetic procedures. 

Let’s discover the benefits of these methods by looking at the types of wrinkles that appear on your face and what each option does to help.

Drs. Hena Khaja, Soha Rafi, and our dedicated team at Texas Eye Doctors help with many eye problems and also offer cosmetic services in the McKinney, Texas area, including injectables.

Types of wrinkles

The creases, lines, and wrinkles that form on your face come in two main types: those caused by repetitive facial muscle movements (dynamic) and those caused by skin laxity and gravity (static). These lead to the following types of wrinkles:

• Forehead lines: creases that form horizontally across the forehead

• Worry lines: show up between your eyebrows in an eleven pattern

• Bunnies: develop at the top of your nose and between your eyes

• Crow's feet: located at the corners of your eyes, radiating out

• Nasolabial folds: these form into a parentheses shape around the upper lip

• Lip lines: vertical wrinkles forming from the mouth’s perimeter

• Marionette lines: lines that shape the chin and eventually turn into jowls

How Botox® helps

The botulinum toxin in a Botox injection has unique properties. It relaxes muscles and has a history of use in medicine to treat many conditions. 

For cosmetic purposes, it’s useful in relaxing muscles where wrinkles form, making it ideal for smoothing them.

Injectables and fillers have different names, including

• Botox
• Xeomin 
• Daxxify 
• Jeuveau 
• Dysport  

They are used to treat most of the wrinkles listed above, as well as thick bands in your neck, and wrinkles that create a cobblestone chin.

What dermal fillers do

These fillers perform a similar function as Botox, but they use a different route. As the name implies, they fill areas with wrinkles using safe materials just under the skin to smooth their appearance and add volume. 

Dermal fillers don’t affect the muscles. Instead, they volumize sagging skin, plump lips and cheeks, smooth wrinkles and creases, and provide symmetry in your face. 

Fillers include:

• Hyaluronic acid: a naturally occurring substance in the body that adds volume and hydration

• Calcium hydroxylapatite: using materials that you have in your bones, these fill deeper wrinkles and can last up to a year

• Poly-L-lactic acid: this helps your body create collagen, a protein created by your skin to retain firmness

• Polymethylmethacrylate: this type has collagen 

Both forms of injectables can take off years on your face, and as a minimally invasive procedure, they are done on an outpatient basis, so you can get back to your day when they’re finished. 

If you want to see the difference Botox and dermal fillers can make on your face, make an appointment with Drs. Khaja, Rafi, and our team at Texas Eye Doctors today.