Cosmetic and facial fillers”> What is the difference between Botox Cosmetic and facial fillers?
A. Botox Cosmetic temporarily corrects or eliminates the dynamic wrinkles due to overactive facial muscles by blocking the chemicals that cause the facial muscles to contract resulting in muscle relaxation. Botox is only effective for the correction of dynamic wrinkles. Skin sagging and wrinkles of the face start to develop as we get older, they are the result of thinned and broken collagen. These types of wrinkles are different from the dynamic wrinkles and require the use of fillers to fill out and plump up the depressed areas. The intradermal injection of the filler mask the wrinkle by adding volume. There are several available fillers, they include Restylane, Captique, Collagen, Sculptra, Cosmopast, Cosmoderm, Hylaform and Radiesse. Because a significant number of men and women have a combination of both types of wrinkles, Botox Cosmetic and facial fillers are frequently used in combination, complementing each other.
