At Bellaire Dermatology, we strive for natural-appearing results that help create the best version of you. Injectables like facial fillers and Botox will help in rejuvenating facial skin by reducing or eliminating wrinkles, raising scar depressions, enhancing lips, and replacing soft-tissue volume loss through facial injections.
With age, our skin becomes more susceptible to wrinkles and sagging. Exposure to the sun and years of muscle movement (squinting, chewing, smiling) contribute to tissue breakdown of the skin. Our practitioners at Bellaire Dermatology can help correct and refresh your look using injectables.
What Are Injectables?
Injectables are popular among people looking for non-surgical cosmetic treatments to improve their appearance. These procedures involve injecting specialized substances such as neurotoxins and dermal fillers into specific areas of the face. The use of injectables can help to smooth out wrinkles and fine lines, restore volume to areas that have lost their youthful fullness, and enhance facial features. With the help of a skilled and experienced cosmetic professional, injectables can provide a subtle and natural-looking enhancement to your appearance.
Benefits of Injectables
Quick and Convenient Treatments
Injectable treatments are typically quick, allowing you to achieve noticeable results during a short office visit. There is minimal downtime, allowing you to return to your daily activities with little interruption.
Can Be Customized to Your Needs
At Bellaire Dermatology, our team will develop a personalized treatment plan tailored to your specific concerns and desired outcomes, ensuring you receive optimal results.
Can Give Natural Looking Results
Injectable treatments can yield natural-looking results that enhance your features while maintaining your unique facial expressions.
Lasts for a Long Time
While the duration of results varies depending on the specific injectable used, many treatments offer long-lasting effects, allowing you to enjoy your rejuvenated appearance for months at a time.
Non-Invasive Alternative to Surgery
Injectable treatments provide a non-surgical alternative to cosmetic surgery, allowing you to significantly improve your appearance without incisions or lengthy recovery periods.
Available Injectable Treatments
Dermal Fillers
Dermal fillers are used to restore volume beneath your skin, especially in areas where age has caused natural fullness to decrease. These injectable treatments can smooth lines, soften folds, and bring back a youthful contour by adding volume to specific areas, like the cheeks, lips, or around the mouth.
Bellafill
Bellafill is a semi-permanent filler that markedly improves depressed acne scars. It’s also great for cheek and chin augmentation, as well as significant wrinkles and folds. It typically has a longer duration than HA fillers.
Bellafill has two main ingredients, collagen and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microspheres. The collagen gel provides immediate volume and support and allows you to see results right away. As your body absorbs this initial collagen, the PMMA microspheres remain in place and act as a scaffold that stimulates our skin’s natural collagen production. Bellafill can last up to five years in nasolabial folds and acne scars, minimizing the frequent need for touch-ups.
Radiesse
Radiesse is an injectable made of calcium hydroxylapatite (CaHA) microspheres, which provide immediate volume while stimulating natural collagen production. The gel carrier gives an instant lift, and as it’s absorbed, the CaHA microspheres encourage collagen buildup, adding structure and firmness over time.
Radiesse is ideal for areas needing structural support, like the cheeks, jawline, and back of the hands, where volume loss is noticeable. It effectively treats deeper folds and pronounced wrinkles, providing contour and support.
Sculptra
Sculptra is an injectable made from poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA), which gradually restores volume by stimulating collagen production deep within the skin. Instead of providing immediate results, Sculptra’s effects develop over a few months as collagen builds in the treated areas.
Sculptra is indicated for use in the lower face, particularly the nasolabial folds and marionette lines. However, it can be used in other areas to address skin laxity and improve the texture of the skin. Each session builds upon the previous one and usually requires two to three treatments to see noticeable results.
Hypredilute Radiesse and Sculptra
Hyperdilute Radiesse/Sculptra improves skin texture or surface irregularity using diluted concentrations of Radiesse filler or Sculptra aesthetic. This treatment is terrific for neck and chest rejuvenation, as well as smoothing contour irregularities of the arms, legs, buttocks, or thighs. It works synergistically with cellulite treatments, stimulating collagen production for gradual improvements in skin elasticity and smoothness.
JUVÉDERM®
JUVÉDERM is a family of hyaluronic acid-based fillers. Each product has a slightly different formulation so we can adjust based on the area being treated and the desired effect. For example, JUVÉDERM ULTRA XC and VOLBELLA® XC are typically used for enhancing lip fullness and smoothing fine lines around the mouth, while JUVÉDERM VOLUMA® XC is formulated to add volume to the cheeks.
JUVÉDERM fillers have a smooth consistency, which gives them more natural movement under the skin. The hyaluronic acid in JUVÉDERM is cross-linked, which helps the filler maintain its shape and volume over time. Depending on the specific filler used and individual factors, results from JUVÉDERM treatments can last anywhere from six months to two years.
SKINVIVE™ by JUVÉDERM®
SKINVIVE™ by JUVÉDERM® improves hydration, texture, and radiance. Using hyaluronic acid to lock in moisture, SKINVIVE™ enhances the skin’s natural glow and smooths fine lines without adding volume. This injectable focuses on revitalizing the skin’s surface, especially around the cheeks and lower face, for a refreshed, dewy appearance that looks natural and subtle.
Restylane®
Restylane is another family of hyaluronic acid fillers. The Restylane line includes products like Restylane Lyft, which adds volume to the cheeks and hands, and Restylane Silk, which focuses on fine lines around the mouth and adds subtle fullness to the lips. Restylane fillers have a more granular texture that varies in thickness depending on the product. It can be suitable for areas where you want more support and structure like deep nasolabial folds or cheeks. The hyaluronic acid in Restylane also helps attract moisture to the skin and provides a more hydrated and youthful appearance.
The RHA® Collection
The RHA (Resilient Hyaluronic Acid) Collection is a family of fillers that adapt to facial dynamics and provide authentic-looking results even in highly expressive areas. Unlike more rigid fillers, the RHA Collection is formulated with resilient hyaluronic acid that stretches and moves with facial expressions. The RHA line includes RHA Redensity™, RHA 2, RHA 3, and RHA 4, each suited to different levels of wrinkle depth.
Neuromodulators
Neuromodulators like Botox®, Dysport®, and Daxxify® are used to temporarily smooth fine lines and wrinkles by relaxing the muscles that cause the wrinkles to form. This is our highest patient satisfaction procedure which delivers safe natural-appearing results, and leaves patients looking stress- and anger-free!
Botox
Botox injections are formulated with a highly purified form of botulinum toxin type A. This formulation is optimized for precise, targeted muscle relaxation, which smooths expression lines by reducing the activity of specific muscles around the forehead, between the brows, and near the eyes. Botox has a unique reputation for achieving smooth, refined results without affecting the surrounding areas, allowing treated areas to appear naturally relaxed.
Dysport
Dysport is another injectable neurotoxin that uses botulinum toxin type A but with a different molecular structure than Botox. This structure allows Dysport to spread more easily over broader areas, making it particularly effective for larger treatment areas, like the forehead, where smooth, even coverage is important. Dysport’s diffusion properties allow for a softer, more natural look in areas where you may want a more subtle lift. Dysport has a slightly faster onset, which some patients notice within a couple of days after treatment.
Daxxify
Daxxify contains a peptide-stabilized botulinum toxin which enhances its durability in the body. This peptide formulation allows Daxxify to maintain its wrinkle-relaxing effects longer than traditional neurotoxins, potentially lasting up to six months or more for some patients. Daxxify’s formulation also provides a steady, gradual softening of expression lines, with results that feel and look natural.
Fat Reducing Injections
Kybella®
Kybella is injected into the fat under the chin, jowls, bra fat, and other body areas to destroy fat cells and clear them away through the body’s natural metabolic process. The fat cells are permanently destroyed. Treatments are administered 4 weeks apart. One of the most popular treatments is for the “jowls” which typically require 2-4 treatments.
Kybella is made from deoxycholic acid, a molecule that occurs naturally in the body and aids in the breakdown and absorption of dietary fat. When injected directly into targeted areas, Kybella disrupts the cell membranes of fat cells, causing them to break down. Once the fat cells are destroyed, they cannot store or accumulate fat again.
Vein Treatments
Spider and Varicose Vein Therapy can be used to treat many conditions. We offer in-office duplex ultrasounds that provide the highest level of diagnostic acumen, revealing the underlying cause of your vein problems. We get to the root cause of your vein problems and have expertly done so for over 20 years. They are caused by repetitive high-impact activities, injuries, pregnancy, and family history. Larger dilated, blue/green blood vessels or varicose veins are raised above the skin surface and may cause discomfort, leg swelling, and, subsequently, skin ulcers.
Sclerotherapy is an injectable treatment for spider and small varicose veins. During sclerotherapy, a medical solution is injected directly into the affected veins, causing irritation of the vein walls. This irritation triggers the vein walls to collapse, blocking blood flow through the treated veins. These veins are naturally absorbed by the body and fade from view. Sclerotherapy sessions take only 15 to 30 minutes and require little to no downtime.
PRP/PRF Injections
PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma) and PRF (Platelet-Rich Fibrin) injections use components of your blood to promote skin rejuvenation and tissue healing. After drawing a small amount of blood, we concentrate the platelets and fibrin through centrifugation and then inject them into your face or scalp. These growth factors stimulate collagen production, improve skin texture, and support cellular repair, resulting in smoother, firmer skin. PRF has a slower release of growth factors, which can provide longer-lasting results. Both PRP and PRF are popular choices for addressing fine lines, dark circles, hair growth, and overall skin quality with a natural approach that works in harmony with your body’s regenerative processes.
Frequently Asked Questions About Injectables
Will the treatment be painful?
Discomfort during injectable treatments is typically minimal. Our providers take great care to ensure your comfort by using fine needles and, if necessary, applying a topical anesthetic to the treatment area.
How long does an injectable treatment take?
The duration of an injectable treatment can vary depending on the specific procedure and the areas being treated. Most treatments can be completed within a short office visit, allowing you to return to your daily activities promptly.
How long do the results of injectables last?
The longevity of injectable results varies depending on the type of injectable used. Neurotoxins like Botox typically last around 3 to 4 months, while dermal fillers can provide results lasting anywhere from 6 months to 2 years. Our dermatologists will provide you with a personalized assessment of the expected duration of your specific treatment.
Who is an ideal candidate for injectable treatments?
Injectable treatments are suitable for individuals who wish to address specific cosmetic concerns, such as wrinkles, volume loss, or facial asymmetry. However, it is best to consult with us to determine if injectables are the right option based on your medical history and aesthetic goals.
Unlock Your Beauty Potential With Injectable Treatments in Houston, TX
At Bellaire Dermatology in Houston, TX, we specialize in top-quality, safe injectable treatments. Our goal is to enhance your natural beauty and provide personalized care. We can effectively address common concerns such as wrinkles, volume loss, and facial asymmetry through our wide range of injectable treatments, including neurotoxins and dermal fillers. Our goal is to provide natural-looking results that enhance your features and refresh your skin.
Take the first step towards revealing your true beauty potential by scheduling a consultation with Bellaire Dermatology. Let our team guide you on a transformative journey to help you look and feel your best. Contact us to book your appointment and experience the difference that injectables can make in your life.Our number is (713) 661-4383.
