Restylane & Perlane

The resilience and youthful contours of your skin - its ability to counter the effects of time, wind and weather - owes much to hyaluronic acid. It exists in all life and its most important function is to bear and bind water.

Smoothing wrinkles and folds or giving your mouth a fuller form requires no foreign element. Restylane gives shape with the bodies own natural material called hyaluronic acid. In the skin it creates volume, resulting in a healthy and vital appearance.

Restylane has a long record of success with many satisfied users. More than 1,000,000 treatments have been carried out in more than 60 countries around the world.

Hyaluronic acid is one of very few substances that are identical in all species and tissue types. Thus, it can be used in many medical applications. In Restylane it restores youthful resilience to your skin by simply adding to your natural supply.

Restylane is the only product to boast Non-Animal, Stabilized, Hyaluronic Acid (NASHA). NASHA is the first stable, bio-degradable, non-animal hyaluronic acid available and is produced under carefully controlled conditions. The result is three choices of gels, which can be used individually or in combination.

After injection, the gel binds water and generally remains for many months. Non-stabilized hyaluronic acid products, by comparison, last only a few days or several weeks at most.

The Restylane product range is specially designed for different purposes and effects, from eliminating tiny lines to enhancing facial contours and sculpting lips to perfection.

•  Restylane for wrinkle correction and lip enhancements

•  Restylane Touch for correcting thin, superficial lines, e.g. around the eyes and mouth, forehead lines and smile lines.

•  Restylane Perlane for shaping facial contours, such as cheeks and chin, correcting deep folds, and for volume augmentation of the lips.

For optimal results combinations of both Restylane/Perlane and Botox® are often used. Our clinic Doctor will assess you on an individual basis and will advise on the most appropriate product and/or combination.

Many people are looking for that slightly fuller shape for their chin. Just a touch of additional volume can make an enormous difference in your appearance.

With Restylane the choice is yours. One of the great advantages of the Restylane products is that it is long lasting but not permanent.

How long will it last?
How long a treatment holds its effect is very individual. This depends on many factors, such as your age, skin type, life style and muscle activity, as well as on the injection technique.

The gel particles in Restylane are absorbed so slowly that you have ample time for maintenance treatments.

As the gel breaks down, water takes its place. The less concentrated the gel becomes, the more water it is able to bind. These facts are the main reasons that treatments with Restylane products last so long.

When completely absorbed the gel disappears unnoticed from the body. Most patients choose to have a follow-up treatment six to twelve month after an initial treatment of wrinkles or facial contouring. After lip treatments a follow-up is generally needed after approximately 6 months. This should only be considered as a guideline as the length of time Restylane lasts can depend on many contributing factors.

You always have the choice to continue or change the combination of treatments, and the procedure can be repeated as often as you like. You are always in charge of your looks. Restylane gives you that all-important flexibility.

Treatment facts and what you may be wondering

Restylane is an effective and long-lasting alternative. Gaining the look you desire is as easy as it is quick. And the results are instantaneous. Generally no pre treatment test patch is needed and a session often takes approximately than 30 minutes (more if combined with Botox®)

Depending on the effects desired, an initial treatment is usually maintained with occasional follow-up treatments. For wrinkle treatments no pain relief is generally necessary, however it can be easily arranged at your request. When enhancing the lips, pain relief in the form of a local anaesthetic is usually used.

During treatment the crystal-clear gel is injected into the skin in tiny amounts with a very thin needle. The gel then gives a natural volume and smoothes the wrinkles. The ability of Restylane products to integrate with adjacent tissues allows the free passage of vital nutritive elements like oxygen and hormones to pass between fragments of the gel. The result is healthy, natural looking skin.

After the treatment some common injection-related reactions may occur, such as swelling, redness, pain, itching, discoloration and tenderness at the implant site. These typically resolve spontaneously within one to two days after injection into the skin and within a week after injection into the lips.

Other types of reactions are very rare, but about 1 in 2000 treated patients have experienced localized reactions thought to be of a hypersensitivity nature. These have usually consisted of swelling at the implant site, sometimes affecting the surrounding tissues. Redness, tenderness and rarely acne-like formations have also been reported. These reactions have either started a few days after injection or after a delay of two to four weeks, and have generally been described as mild to moderate and self-limiting with an average duration of two weeks.

To find out more about Restylane , or to book in for a consultation with our clinic Doctor, contact the clinic direct on: 01753 623753.