| Facial Enhancement Fillers In Search of the Holy Grail Cleopatra, Cleopatra what have you done? Nothing fascinates patients and aesthetic surgeons more than an immediate solution to the problem of facial aging. Non-surgical rejuvenation with injectable fillers provides the immediate gratification fueling the facial anti-aging desire and effect sought by both patient and aesthetic surgeon. The normal facial aging process is a continuum of loss of fat volume, collagen turgor, skin thickness, skin texture, and skin color. Patients and aesthetic surgeons alike are searching for non-surgical answers to an every evolving process in an effort to improve ones quality of life. Unlike Cleopatra, recent advances in soft tissue augmentation materials, techniques, and surgical skill can restore facial youthfulness with relative ease and little or no downtime. Like Cleopatra, patients expert the perfect dermal filler to be inexpensive, safe, painless to inject, hypoallergenic, and long lasting. As aesthetic surgeons, we desire consistent and predictable results, a resultant natural feel under the skin, short prep and injection time, come ready-to-use, exert no downtime on the patient, and have a low risk of complications. |

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