Botox and Dermal Fillers explained.

Your skin serves as the protective barrier that shields your body from disease, certain bacteria, the environment, varying temperatures and other foreign objects. While protecting us from all the different elements our skin takes a beating. Your skin also takes on some natural use just from all of the stretching and contracting it has to do every day as we jump, play, work and move. Though you can take measures to protect your skin, for some suggestions on keeping healthy skin, talk to Gainesville Dermatologists. Like all things that have wear and tear, our skin might have marks like wrinkles. Looking into a a well used face you can see the lines that tell you how a person laughed or smiled, frowned or sighed. Many things can contribute to why we gain wrinkles. Excess sun can damage the skin, we lose collagen as we age, our genes and hormones contribute and use all come together to sculpt our look. Lines are a natural part of the wear and tear our bodies sustain. There are cosmetic procedures offered at Gainesville Dermatologists that can reduce the appearance of wrinkles such as dermal fillers or botox. To help you learn more about these procedures, some basic summaries are listed below.
Botox works by stopping some of the nerves that activate muscles. Botox is used in many parts of the medical field, such as certain muscle therapies. When applied in small amounts by Gainesville Dermatologists to certain regions in your face it can decrease the activities of certain muscles that create the appearance of wrinkles. Gainesville Dermatologists can customize a treatment plan for you that will allow you to attain your desired look. It is a very quick procedure that can be completed within a matter of minutes that needs no recovery time. Botox is relatively painless, the injections have been described as similar to a mosquito bite. While the results may take a week or so to become noticeable they should last for three months.
The Gainesville Dermatologists also offer dermal fillers. Two aspects of the skin that fade over time are hyaluronic acid and collagen. Collagen in the skin makes it firm while hyaluronic acid makes the skin and voluminous. The absence of these two elements make for wrinkles, folds, thinner lips and less fullness. The dermal fillers offered by Gainesville Dermatologists put the firmness and volume back into the skin by putting the Hyaluronic acid and collagen back, also using polylactic acid which is used in other medical procedures. Having collagen and hyaluronic acid back in the skin will bring firmness and fullness back to the skin. Generally, this procedure is focused in the mouth and nose area. Discomfort can be minimized at Gainesville Dermatologists with topical anesthetic and lidocaine injections if it is so desired. Dermal filler results are immediate and the whole process only takes an hour.