The Centre, P.C. - Plastic Surgery Blog

Soft Tissue Fillers - Friday, April 04, 2008

Here at the Centre, P.C. we offer a number of soft-tissue fillers for wrinkle treatment. The fillers we offer are the best available on the market today, and include Restylane and Radiesse.

Restylane has become the new standard in facial fillers. It is made of hyaluronic acid, a natural substance found in your skin, joints, and spinal column. It works as a moisturizer because it is hydrophilic, meaning that it collects and holds water, which is part of the reason for its longevity. Once injected, the body immediately begins to absorb and redistribute the hyaluronic acid, but as some of it moved away, the remaining hyaluronic acid fills the space with water molecules, so that the filler does not lose volume.

Radiesse works in a similar fashion, but instead of hyaluronic acid, Radiesse is made of a carboxymethylcellulose (a form of cellulose commonly used as a food thickener) gel, surrounding microspheres of calcium hydroxyapatite, a compound commonly used as a bone filler. Although the gel is immediately absorbed, the body fills in around the microspheres, which are slowly absorbed by the body.

Both these fillers provide excellent wrinkle correction for nearly all facial wrinkles. To learn more about facial fillers, contact the Centre, P.C. in Elkhart Indiana, to schedule a consultation.