What does volume loss look like?

As facial volume diminishes the skin will have acquired lines or wrinkles due to collagen and facial fat depletion. There is a hallowing around the eye sockets along with sunken temples, flattened cheeks, and loose skin around the jawline, better known as jowls. Fine lines appear on the lips and around the nose and fold form around the corners of the nose and mouth. The skin appears drier, thinner, and less pliable and vibrant.

What causes facial volume loss?

Heredity, hormones, smoking, sun exposure, the normal aging process, extreme dieting, and exercise are the main causes of facial volume loss. However, certain medications may hasten the condition, as well as emotional stress, lifestyle factors, numerous traumas, and extreme “yo-yo” dieting, and frequent weight gain and weight loss, which cause a stretching of the ligaments that support the soft tissues of the face. Facial volume loss is accompanied by the loss of blood vessels, fat layers, and collagen causing the skin to sink in from the lack of these natural supports. Smoking, prolonged sun exposure, and severe illness also contribute to a general loss of facial volume. Prolonged stress from the loss of a job, family illness or death, financial problems, and hormone changes only accelerate the process.

Facial Volume Loss

What is Facial Volume Loss? How to improve the face fat loss with out surgery?

Facial volume loss can be more noticeable after weight loss, athletes, and photoaging, and it can be improved with dermal fillers, biostimulators, and lasers. In the normal course of aging, there is a natural loss of underlying bony support, facial fat, collagen, and hyaluronic acid. The process usually begins as early as age 20 as the skin’s natural supports begin to break down, producing a gradual loss of definition in the cheeks, eye sockets, temples, lips, jawline, and forehead. The skin loses much of its youthful elasticity as a result of normal aging. However, behavioral or environmental factors can contribute to and even speed up the process. These changes should be carefully evaluated before deciding the best option for correction.

Dr. Shanthala believes that not all facial volume loss can be corrected by Dermal fillers. For example if the patients have excessive skin laxity that needs to be addressed by using EBDS such as lasers or RF microneedling or Ultherapy to tighten the skin before using fillers. In some cases Dr. Shanthala uses biostimulators such as sculptra or hyperdilute radiesse along with EBDS to stimulate collagen and the use Dermal fillers.

Non-Surgical Solutions for Facial Volume Loss

Facial volume loss, often due to aging or significant weight loss, can lead to a hollowed, aged appearance. However, you don’t have to resort to invasive surgery or fat transfer to restore a youthful look. At our practice, we specialize in non-surgical treatments that effectively address facial fat loss without the risks of surgery or scarring.

Using advanced dermal fillers, platelet-rich plasma (PRP), and Fractional ablative lasers, we can restore lost volume, enhance facial contours, and rejuvenate your appearance. Dermal fillers provide immediate results by replenishing lost volume and smoothing deep lines and wrinkles. PRP therapy uses your body’s natural growth factors to stimulate collagen production, improve skin quality, and restore volume gradually. Laser coring, a revolutionary technique, tightens and lifts the skin, providing a subtle, natural lift that enhances overall facial harmony.

Each treatment is carefully tailored to your unique needs, ensuring natural-looking results that enhance your facial features without surgery. Combining these techniques allows us to achieve a balanced, rejuvenated appearance that helps you look and feel your best.

If you want to address facial volume loss without surgery, schedule a consultation with Dr. Shanthala today to explore the most advanced non-surgical options available.

Facial Volume Loss Treatments

Dermal fillers & Laser-Coring for Face Fat Loss

Dermal fillers such as HA fillers are fully reversible when injected under the skin’s surface, dermal fillers can be used to plump lips, soften fine lines and wrinkles, and fill volume loss. We combine Laser-Coring & Biostimulating fillers such as Radiesse and Sculptra and temporary fillers such as Juvederm and Restylane to treat deep wrinkles, frown lines, smile lines, vertical lip lines, marionette lines, hollowed cheeks, and eyes, declining lip volume, and even acne scars. The most common areas for injectable fillers include under the hollows, sunken, and deflated cheeks, aged hands, chest and neck wrinkles, lip lines, chin augmentation, jawline contouring, and forehead hollows. All fillers are injected by our board-certified physician.
There are several other methods which can be used to replace the lost facial volume such as

PDO Threads combined with Dermal fillers & Laser

The PDO threads are absorbable sutures and stimulate the collagen, barbed sutures can reposition the fat can result in temporary lifting of sagging skin. Combining these with fillers and lasers are the best way to get full face rejuvenation. These results can be enhanced with the combination of any energy based procedures for enhanced skin tightening and improved luminoscity of the skin.

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) with Fillers & Laser for Facial Volume loss

A cutting-edge form of regenerative medicine using the body’s own plasma to restore collagen in the skin. Dr. Shanthala believes in using your own growth factor loaded platelet rich plasma & Dermal fillers for both volume correction and dermal remodeling. The most popular procedure Vampire facial or Vampire facelift or PRP Facial for volume correction and to improve the quality of skin.