Dermal fillers are also known as ‘facial volume treatment’, ‘volume enhancing injections’ and ‘facial volumisers’.
What Happens When Dermal Fillers Wear Off?
Dermal fillers are a non-invasive treatment to augment your appearance and rejuvenate signs of ageing. They treat wrinkles, hollowness, sagging, and features like your nose, lips and chin. When people start researching dermal filler treatments, they often wonder “What happens when dermal fillers wear off?”. Understanding what happens when dermal fillers wear off allows you to be better informed about treatment.
Understanding Dermal Fillers
Dermal fillers add volume to treated areas, giving immediate, but temporary results. Depending on the type of filler used, the effects can last anywhere from six months to two years and beyond.
Dermal Filler Metabolism: What to Expect
As dermal fillers gradually wear off, the treated areas will slowly return to their pre-treatment appearance. This is a natural process as your body breaks down the filler material over time. The duration and process can vary based on several factors:
Type of Filler: Thicker fillers take longer to break down, because the filler molecules are more entangled (cross-linked).
Metabolism: Individuals with a faster metabolism may notice that their fillers wear off more quickly.
Area Treated: Fillers in mobile areas, like the lips, often wear off faster due to constant movement breaking down the filler molecules.
Signs That Your Dermal Fillers Are Wearing Off
You may begin to notice subtle changes as your dermal fillers start to wear off. These can include:
Return of Wrinkles: The wrinkles treated with filler will gradually reappear.
Return to Pre-Treatment Appearance: As filler wears off, the treated area will go back to it’s original appearance. Although if you have had fillers for a long-time, the ageing process will have been disguised. This means the area may show new signs of ageing you hadn’t seen before. However the dermal filler will have slowed the ageing process by supporting the skin and soft tissue.
What to Do When Your Fillers Wear Off
When you notice your fillers wearing off, you have a few options to maintain your desired look:
Repeat Treatments: The most common approach is to schedule a maintenance treatment to replenish the filler. Your practitioner can recommend the best timing based on how quickly your fillers are wearing off.
Try Collagen Stimulators: While they cannot be used in all areas, collagen stimulating fillers last longer than others.
Do fillers wear off evenly?
While the process of filler metabolism is consistent, regardless of wear the filler is placed, some areas may seem to wear off faster than others. If more filler was injected in certain areas, it may take longer for this area to wear off compared to other areas. Careful treatment planning should make allowances for fillers that are likely to wear off unevenly. Importantly, filler will not wear off faster on one side of your face compared to the other for the same facial feature.
Will I look older after my fillers wear off?
It has been proven that dermal fillers do not age you. However, if you have fillers for a long time, you will become accustomed to your more contoured look. The fillers hide the ageing process, and this will be revealed if you let the fillers wear off. Many experts agree that dermal fillers actually slow the ageing process by supporting the skin. This is especially true for collagen stimulating fillers. This means that you will look younger if you let the fillers wear off compared to if you never had the fillers.
Conclusion
Dermal fillers offer a temporary yet highly effective way to enhance facial features and treat signs of ageing. Understanding what happens when your fillers wear off can help you plan for the future and ensure that you maintain your results.
