Tuesday, August 20, 2019

It's like Botox, but with a different kind of sting.

In high street stores, the skin cream with a snake bite.........

An anti-ageing cream with an active ingredient designed to mimic the effect of the venom of a temple viper is available on the high street for the first time.


Known as Syn-ake, the chemical aims to banish wrinkles as effectively as the face-freezing injections.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072426/Syn-ake-The-Botox-bottle-anti-ageing-skin-cream-snake-bite.html#ixzz1gGQwwWUl


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072426/Syn-ake-The-Botox-bottle-anti-ageing-skin-cream-snake-bite.html#ixzz1gGQlIz3K

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Are you a good candidate for fillers?


The following are some common reason why you may want to consider fillers:
  • You have lines or wrinkles around your mouth, eyes or forehead.
  • You’d like to enhance the volume in areas such as the cheeks, jaw line or lips.
  • If you have scars and depressions in the skin resulting from acne, injury or congenital imperfections.


  1. Injectable fillers can help diminish the appearance of deep nasolabial lines.
  2. Adding volume to areas like the cheekbones can create a more defined contour.

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

How is Dermal Filler Different to Botox?


 by Dr Timothy Beazleigh

How is Dermal Filler Different to Botox?



People are often confused by the difference between Botox and dermal filler treatments, assuming they are the same. Whilst Botox is a muscle relaxant and is used to minimise muscle contraction thus reducing fine lines and wrinkles on facial movement, dermal filler is used specifically to restore volume to deeper, lines, creases and folds that are usually static i.e. permanently visible on the face even when the face isn’t moving.


Traditional areas to treat with standard dermal fillers – including Juvederm and Restylane – are the nasolabial folds (corner of the nostrils to corners of the mouth), marionette lines (corners of mouth to chin/jowls) and the smokers lines (above the top lip). Thicker, more volumising fillers including Juvederm Voluma are used specifically to the mid face region to augment cheek bones, restore volume and plumpness to the lower cheeks and redefine the chin and temples. Fillers are also used to enchance and recontour lips.


As a treatment with dermal fillers requires the needle to penetrate the dermis deeper than for a standard Botox treatment, there is usually more opportunity for bruising to occur as the blood vessels are not visible to the practitioner (beyond the superficial layer), but bruising is by no means a standard side effect and occurs in approximately 50% of treatments.


Juvederm is the filler of choice at Melior Clinics Botox & Facial Aesthetic London Clinic as, being monophasic, it is smooth in consistency and also contains a built in anaesthetic, making the process a lot more comfortable for the patient.