Restylane®

Restylane® is a non-animal-based hyaluronic acid to augment lip volume and to treat smile and marionette lines, volume to the mid face and under eye area. (A skin test is not required with these products.) This natural product produces long-lasting skin enhancement.

As you age, the years of laughing, smiling, talking and tanning inevitably crease your skin. These factors can leave you with lines and wrinkles. You will also start to notice that the size of your lips has begun to shrink. Restylane® injections can be used for temporary line and wrinkle removal or lip enhancement. It is also used in our practice for the under eye area. It helps with the hollowing to the under eyes and dark circles. Restylane® is injected under the surface of your skin to restore the natural contours of your face. Restylane® is a clear gel formulation of hyaluronic acid that is specifically formulated to act like your body’s own naturally produced hyaluronic acid, helping to visibly correct moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, including the lines from your nose to the corners of your mouth (nasolabial folds or laugh lines), the corners of the mouth and marionette lines — the area that extends downward from the corners of the mouth to the jawline.

Types of Restylane®

Restylane® Lyft

Over time, the natural fat that surrounds the cheeks begins to deteriorate, resulting in sagging skin, more prominent wrinkles and a reduction of volume. Restylane® Lyft, formerly known as Perlane-L®, is an injectable hyaluronic acid gel to correct volume loss and treat wrinkles in the face.

Through nonsurgical injections, Restylane® Lyft is specifically designed to add fullness to the cheeks and midface area, which can result in a more natural-looking, youthful appearance. Restylane® Lyft is the only filler approved by the FDA for cheek augmentation and the correction of age-related midface contour deficiencies in patients over the age of 21. This is in addition to treating moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds (smile lines)

How Restylane® Lyft Works

Restylane® Lyft is injected under the surface of your skin to restore the natural contours of your face. Restylane® Lyft is a clear gel formulation of hyaluronic acid that is specifically formulated to act like your body’s own naturally produced hyaluronic acid, helping to visibly correct moderate to severe facial wrinkles in the cheek and mid face area. The Restylane line of products is designed to act like your body’s own naturally produced hyaluronic acid. Our NASHA® technology allows a unique particle size for each Restylane® product, which means they offer tailored treatments for individual, natural-looking results.

Benefits of Restylane® Lift

Restylane® Lyft is specifically designed to add fullness to the cheek area, and the results will be immediate. Results in the midface area last up to 12 months. Nasolabial fold corrections last up to 6 months.

Restylane® Silk

The hollows beneath your eyes, or lines around your lips and mouth, like other areas of the face, show signs of aging as you get older.

For those with dark circles under their eyes this occurs because you have “deep tear troughs” which are like little depressions and they cause shadowing, which makes it look like you have dark circles. Women in their twenties can get dark circles because of their genetic makeup, the way their face is developed. Dr. Mary injects Restylane® Silk, a hyaluronic acid filler into the under eye area to fill in those hollow areas under the eye and smooth out uneven tissue. In less than a 10 minute procedure, you can instantly banish dark circles and with no swelling or downtime.

Lip thinning, lost shape and an increase in vertical lines above the lip can also occur at any age. At PritiSkin™, we use Restylane Silk to restore lip volume and decrease creases around the mouth because it’s designed specifically to provide natural-looking results in these particular areas by using smaller, smoother particles than those used in other Restylane® products. Restylane® Silk is indicated for submucosal implantation for lip augmentation and dermal implantation for correction of perioral rhytids in patients over the age of 21.

How Restylane® Silk Works

Restylane® Silk is a clear gel formulation of hyaluronic acid that is specifically formulated to act like your body’s own naturally produced hyaluronic acid, helping to visibly correct lip thinning and wrinkles. It is injected under the surface of your skin to help restore the natural contours of your mouth.

Benefits of Restylane® Silk

No skin test is required prior to injection
Composed of stabilized hyaluronic acid which is a natural component of our tissue
Instant results
Long lasting (over 6 months)

Benefits

No skin test is required prior to injection
Composed of stabilized hyaluronic acid which is a natural component of our tissue
Instant results
Long lasting (over 6 months)

Who Can Receive Treatment

The Restylane family of products should not be used by people who:

Are pregnant, breastfeeding, or under 18 years for nasolabial folds and under 22 years for lips (Restylane® and Restylane® Silk only).
Have recently used drugs that thin the blood or prevent clotting
Have had previous bad allergies, particularly to microorganisms known as gram-positive bacteria
Have serious allergies to drugs that have previously required in-hospital treatment
Have bleeding disorders
Have a known allergy to lidocaine, if using Restylane, Restylane Silk or Restylane Lyft

Side Effects and Risks

After your treatment, you may experience side effects, such as swelling, redness, pain, bruising, headache and itching at injection site and tenderness. These are typically mild in severity and normally last less than 7 days in nasolabial folds and less than 14–18 days in lips. Patients should be limited to 6.0 mL per treatment of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds. Swelling may be more likely in patients under 36 years, and bruising may be more likely in patients over 35 years.

Cost

The cost of Restylane® varies for each patient, as the number of injections needed increases or decreases with each unique patient. During your consultation with Dr. Mary Pritikin, a plan for treatment will be put together based on your specific cosmetic and financial needs.