When everything else gets a lift, why leave the smile behind?

 

Mumbai: Are you put off by your own smile because every time you do so, the lines around your mouth thicken and form a trough right up to the chin? Do you keep looking into the mirror and keep adjusting your smile to find a perfect way to minimise the appearance of these wrinkles and folds? To tackle it celebs like Cheryl Cole and Hilary Duff are rumoured to have opted for dermal fillers like Restylane that fill the folds and smoothen out the lines.

 

The vertical lines and wrinkles that start at the corners of the mouth and stretch right up to the chin are called Marionette lines. They are visible even when you have no expression on your face but when you smile or laugh; they turn into deeper folds and give the appearance of sagging and ageing. They also give the face an angry, worried or unhappy look. In older men and women, the marionette lines are much more visible and obvious.

Over the years, the creases and lines that form on the face each time we laugh or frown start becoming more permanent and marionette lines too are a result of this.

 

Restylane is a family of hyaluronic acid based dermal fillers that are administered in the skin to add more volume to it, to fill up lines and wrinkles and restore youthful contours. It produces instant results by adding fullness to the skin to correct moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, including the lines from the nose to the corners of your mouth, the area just below the nose and above the upper lip; the corners of the mouth; and the marionette lines. Hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring substance in the skin that is responsible for giving the skin its elasticity.

 

Hydrophilic substance also promotes water absorption and gives the skin the much needed hydration as it retains water and moisture. With age, the natural reserves of hyaluronic acid start depleting, and slowly give the skin an ageing look. How much of the filler will be required to treat you depends on how much prominent and well founded the lines are. The impact of a session lasts up to six months.

 

Some also get their teeth corrected, while others get their jaw line reformed. Getting a procedure done to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and deep folds around the mouth is another essential part of getting a ‘smile lift’ done.