Q. Are cheek fillers safe?

Our treatment is safe, with very few side effects. Before your treatment commences, one of our medical professionals will discuss your goals with you before asking about your medical history and any relevant allergies. This will ensure that the treatment is safe to go ahead with minimal risk of any complications or reactions. Our cheek augmentation and fillers treatment also require very little recovery time, making it safe to go about your day-to-day life soon after the treatment has been completed.

Q. Can cheek fillers look natural?

Whilst some people are interested in our treatment, they often worry that the results will not look natural and will be noticeable. Here at Revolution Aesthetics, we are passionate about providing subtle results that are completely natural and enhance your existing features. At your consultation, we’ll take the time to learn about your desired outcome, so that we can provide a tailored treatment to deliver the ideal results. We will never overtreat any of our patients and our fillers aren’t permanent either - they are therefore buildable over time depending on your desired look.

Our commitment to ensuring a truly natural look with our cosmetic treatments means that we always place cheek fillers in contact with the bone. This is because we are aware that, otherwise, the face could be left with something of a strange, doughy look that comes across as far from natural.

Q. How long do cheek fillers last?

Typically, you can expect these fillers to remain for around 9 to 12 months from the time of application. In practice, however, the duration of their effectiveness can depend on various factors – including the patient’s own genetic makeup.

There are certain lifestyle changes you can make to help lengthen how long your cheek fillers stay intact before top-up treatment is required. For example, if you smoke or drink, you could try to give up these habits – and switching to a more nutritious diet can also play a positive part.

In many instances, the worse your all-round lifestyle, the sooner your body could burn away hyaluronic acid previously injected into your body as a result of fillers.

One exception to this rule is that serious athletes with very high metabolisms could need top-ups about a month or two sooner than dermal filler recipients with more sedentary lifestyles.
As a general rule, though, you should arrange to receive follow-up filler treatment roughly 9 to 12 months after your initial injection of filler on the cheeks.

Q. Do cheek fillers lift your face?

There’s nothing unusual about a face swelling after receiving cheek fillers; so, don’t be too worried if, when you first see yourself in the mirror post-treatment, your face looks like it’s been overly lifted. It can take as long as five days for your face’s newfound volume to settle.

Once it has settled, though, you could be pleasantly surprised by how the treatment has struck just the right balance with lifting your face. There are many easy-to-overlook benefits of cheek fillers; these fillers are, for example, capable of reducing shadow under the eyes, softening the appearance of recessed scars and filling in static wrinkles.

Though static wrinkles usually result from the skin losing both collagen and elasticity over time, hyaluronic acid injections can fill empty space left between the skin’s collagen and elastin fibres. The treatment can also help to maintain fullness due to the acid’s ability to attract and bind water.

Q. Do cheek fillers make a difference?

Exactly what difference cheek fillers bring will be affected by where on the cheek they are administered. Filler placed in the higher cheekbone area can replicate the look of contour makeup, with light seeming to hit the cheek perfectly.

However, if you currently see deeper lines near your nose and mouth, injections should be made at the larger part of your cheek. When we hold a cheek fillers consultation with you, we will ask you if your face has any specific deep wrinkles and lines that particularly trouble you.

We can then tailor the cheek filler treatment accordingly or recommend an alternative form of treatment. You could perhaps consider our SuneKOS anti-ageing treatment, which stimulates collagen production. Even just a lifestyle change can suffice for reducing wrinkles.

Q. What should I expect when getting cheek fillers?

Once you have booked your cheek filler treatment, the dermatologist will advise you on how to prepare for it. You will need to avoid blood thinners in the two weeks before the treatment and avoid alcohol in the two days before.

In the treatment room, the practitioner is likely to coat your skin with an anaesthetic cream before the treatment proper in order to reduce any pain or discomfort.

When the filler itself is injected, you shouldn’t feel anything worse than just a little pressure. Once all of the necessary injections have been made, you will be given some ice to help you numb any immediate swelling.