2023-06-30 05:02:36
Whether it’s to reshape a part of your body or fight the signs of aging, aesthetic medicine promises to improve your appearance in a more affordable and less invasive way than surgery. Injections, peels, etc. seduce more and more, at any age and whether you are a man or a woman.
Charlotte Mannevy (edited by Aurélie Chevalier) • Published on June 30, 2023 at 4:02 p.m.
Hyaluronic acid and botulinum toxin: these two chemistry terms have almost entered everyday language. Better known as “injections”, these are the most common acts in aesthetic medicine practices, and their role is complementary.
“Botox is a toxin that will decrease the information from the nerve to the muscle, explains Dr. Erika Furlani, aesthetic doctor. It is a small injection, which does not mark, which is made at certain precise points of the face and which have the role of relaxing the muscle. So we reduce the harsh expressions or the expressions that we make several times during the day and which will create wrinkles.
Hyaluronic acid allows him “to hydrate and regain the volumes that have been lost. It is a filling product, which can be more or less thick, and which can therefore be used for various purposes, says Alice Trussant, also an aesthetic doctor in Nouméa. For intense hydration on the décolleté, we will use a slightly cross-linked, more liquid hyaluronic acid. And for large fillers, it will be a more viscous product.”
In both cases, these are resorbable products, the effect of which dissipates over time: “Depending on the product and the type of skin, the injections must be repeated every 4 to 6 months for botox, every year or even every two years for hyaluronic acid, so that the expected result lasts “says Erika Furlani.
If the injections are popular, they are not without danger and practitioners are worried regarding announcements circulating on social networks, promising mountains and wonders at unbeatable prices. “Only doctors can make injunctionsalert Erika Furlani. This will already guarantee access to a quality product, referenced and controlled. Then there are places where it is dangerous to inject. For example, hyaluronic acid is a viscous product, so a little bit compact. If we inject it into an artery, we will block it. The area will no longer receive nutrients and oxygen, there will be necrosis. The skin will rot, fall, and suddenly we have an atrophic scar, these are scars that remain for life. “
These precautions taken, the aesthetic doctor addresses patients of all ages: in the treatment of wrinkles, but also for the youngest in prevention. But beware of fashion effects, warns Erika Furlani: “You have young people who have an idol, or who have seen Instagram photos and who come because they want to look like them without taking into account the fact that these images can be photoshopped. There are also fashions, when you are young , we have high cheekbones, a round face and today young people don’t want that, they want a very defined mandibular axis like Angelina Jolie. It’s our role to advise and know how to say no.”
More and more men are also frequenting aesthetic medicine practices, according to practitioners. For injections, permanent hair removal or hair implants, which are now done under local anesthesia, over one day.
If injections have revolutionized aesthetic medicine in the last thirty years, in the future “new techniques might appear thanks to stem cells or even the development of artificial intelligence”, says Dr. Alice Trussant. Research is indeed underway in the field of tissue regeneration and collagen stimulation, offering more natural and long-lasting treatments. AI might become a real diagnostic aid by allowing the analysis of a large amount of medical data and therefore an increasingly advanced personalization of treatments.
Still, if aesthetic medicine can delay surgery, it will never completely replace it, warn Dr. Furlani and Trussant. Excess “sagging” skin can never be resolved other than by surgery.
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