Non-surgical treatment for Nasolabial fold

Smile lines of Naso-labial fold are wrinkles that form alongside your inner cheeks. Which stretch from the lateral side of your nose to the corners of your mouth.

Everyone has smile line to some degree, but they tend to get deeper with age, along with other factors.

Smile lines : cause

• Natural collagen losses : When you lose collagen, your skin laxity increase thereby deepening these types of wrinkles.

• Subcutaneous fat redistribution with age : As this occurs, your skin droops downward, deepening the folds around your cheeks.

• Chronic sun exposure create photo-aging skin by destroying collagen and elastin in the skin.

• weight fluctuations

• sleeping on your side

• smoking

Smile lines : Non- surgical treatment options

Dermal filler

Deep smile lines can be fixed through injections of dermal filler underneath the skin around the area, restoring the lost volume and softening the appearance of these creases. The goal of smile lines injections is to even out the skin volume, leaving you with a refreshed-looking appearance.

Common side effects : of facial filler such as pain, bruising, itching, redness, swelling, rash.

Uncommon side effects :

• leakage of the filler through the injection site

• infection

• Retinal artery occlusion cause blindness, which occurs when the filler gets injected into an artery, blocking blood flow to the eyes

• Bump around the injection site, which may need to be surgically removed

• Skin necrosis (tissue death), again due to blocked blood flow

Self-extracted growth factor : PRP

PRP can improve the cosmetic appearance of these smile lines because PRP contains seld extracted growth factors which is a biological stimulator of collagen induction, meaning that it enhance the renewal of collagen in our skin which start to diminish with time. The skin’s ability to restore collagen slows down with age and external factors such as sun exposure.

PRP therapy uses your own blood extracted, to kick start the skin collagen restoration. It can soften the lines and replenish skin thickness in the nasolabial fold. Self extracted growth factor with PRP can also result in some volume replacement as dermal fillers do to make the folds shallower.

Resurfacing technique

Some skin resurfacing treatments such as micro-needling or fractional laser can help the skin surrounding Nasolabial groove look more youthful.

• Fractional laser (Laser skin resurfacing) can reduce the appearance of scars and age spots.

• Micro-needling offers deep skin renewal that makes the skin look younger and thicker.

These treatments can help the appearance of smile lines, but they can not remove the folds.

Subcision

Subcision is a treatment using a small special design needle to release these underneath skin attachments which create the wrinkles or scar.