Lips to die for - The dermal fillers

Laughter lines. Smile lines. Wrinkles. Crow's feet. Whatever you call them, these are the visible signs of ageing that women most see, to fret about, the evidence of years spent squinting, frowning, laughing, chewing and smiling, as well as time spent in the sun. (And, of course, gravity.) The Athenaeum Spa medical team will help you solve this problem.

Likewise, just when our waistline starts to expand, our lips thin. With age, the plump, fatty, cushion that gives lips their volume reduces. Muscle tension and tone become lax; lips being to hang and lengthen – as well as to thin. The result is that many women hitting mid-age find their lips are visibly deflating by the year; often along with their self-confidence. Certainly, a plumper pout is regarded, even subconsciously, as a sign of sensuality and a symbol of youth,

No wonder, then, that soft tissue “line-filling' using injectable dermal fillers has become one of the top aesthetic medical treatments worldwide. Irrespective of whether the treatment is for aesthetic, medical or psychosomatic reasons, clients have increasingly required remodeling or filling for a variety of indications. Moreover, the advent of injectable fillers has brought with it the ability to minimize invasive procedures.

These injectables are used by the doctors at the Athenaeum Spa in Malta to fill in lines and wrinkles, add fullness to the lips (and cheeks, in some cases), fill in scars, and even pump on sunken areas of the face. Meanwhile, fillers can't help with sagging, bagging or ‘jowls', for which other solutions, including radiofrequency skin tightening, must be sought.

Dermal fillers tend to group into two major categories depending on their chemical nature and their longevity in skin. Temporary fillers, mainly hyaluronic acid, especially the Swiss Anteis Dermal Filler line www.anteis.com , are used to restore the ground substance of healthy skin using its natural building blocks. This product is currently in use at the Athenaeum Spa in Malta. Being natural, they will be metabolized and removed by the body over a period of months, usually up to one year.

Semipermanent fillers, meanwhile, such as the Dutch state of the art filler Ellanse' www.ellanse.com , tend to be made of reabsorbable materials which, once injected, do not react with human tissue, and for this reason, will stay in place and exert the desired tissue-filling effect, for much longer, usually running into years. This product is currently in use at the Athenaeum Spa in Malta.

nteis and Ellanse' fillers are available at the Athenaeum Spa upon consultation with our trained and experienced medical injectors.