Around the lips: strategies for restoring skin quality in the perioral area
Dermal restructuring VS defect masking: how to choose the optimal wrinkle correction program
In a comprehensive program to combat wrinkles in the perioral area, exfoliation plays an important role and is usually the first stage of correction. Let's consider the methods of exfoliation of the perioral area, discuss their advantages and disadvantages.
Often in conversations with colleagues and patients about youth, external attractiveness and ways to achieve it, it turns out that many people mean the aesthetic appearance of individual anatomical zones, forgetting that the holistic picture depends on many factors. Aesthetic correction of the perioral zone is most often considered exclusively as the prerogative of injection methods. Undoubtedly, botulinum toxin injections, contouring and biorevitalization of this area lead to a pronounced rapid therapeutic result.
But here it is appropriate to recall that not only wrinkles make the face older, adding extra years to the perception as a whole.
Let us define the main aesthetic age-related changes in the perioral zone. Based on histological studies and MRI data, the most frequent morphofunctional changes are:
- thinning of the dermis;
- thickening of adipose tissue;
- degeneration of elastic and collagen fibers.
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