What Happens When You Stop Using Fillers? The expert explains it

Stopping the fillers means returning to the starting situation. «You simply find yourself with a face that shows your age, with a little less volume and an improved skin texture. If the skin becomes very wrinkled, however, the triggering factors are not attributable to the fillers but must be sought, for example, in the lifestyle », explains Lia Solomon, specialized in the prevention and treatment of aging and aesthetic medicine. The proof of this statement comes from the American actress Courteney Cox. L’ex star del telefim cult Friends in 2019 he told People magazine that he had given up on fillers two years earlier. “I didn’t realize it until one day I took a step back and said, ‘Oh, I don’t look like myself,” she said. “Probably the specialist has not identified the right method of inoculation”, specifies the specialist. In any case, Courtney is not that different today than in the past, as the video recently posted on shows Instagram which portrays her in splendid shape and perfectly at ease with her 57 years. Let’s see with the expert, therefore, what happens to the skin subjected to filling treatments.

How a filler works

When it comes to injectables, a clarification must be made. “The substances inoculated can be different. The most widespread is hyaluronic acid, but the use of calcium hydroxyapatite and polylactic acid is becoming increasingly widespread », Solomon said. These elements fill the void created by the aging processes of the organism which begin at the age of 25. And they do not only concern the alterations of the skin texture, with dryness accompanied by increasingly dilated recovery times, but the process that leads to the decrease of lipid substances in the skin tissues begins, accompanied by the thinning of the bone and muscle mass. In particular, to suffer from it is the Bichat bubble, the adipose tissue located under the cheekbone: when you are young it is toned and raised, but with the passage of time it is destined to slide downwards, often causing the formation of nasal wrinkles. labial. “All these factors affect the harmony of the features, and the fillers simply fill the gaps generated by the passage of time”, emphasizes the expert.

Functions

The fillers, therefore, restore the volumes but not only. “They soften the skin texture, making wrinkles less deep and mitigate the small sagging of the skin related to the impoverishment of the skin and the underlying, muscular and bone layers”, specifies Lia Solomon. Then there is an aspect that is often forgotten. «The injections release substances that give a regenerating boost: they not only help to retain more water, and therefore perform a moisturizing action, but also give a boost to the fibroblasts to produce more collagen and elastin, the fibers that give tone and firmness. Therefore, they are also regenerating », underlines Lia Solomon.

In the event of an outage

The activities exercised by fillers do not stop immediately. «Depriving the skin of the surplus of volume and nourishment means gradually bringing it back to normality linked to the chronological age. The skin on the surface does not suffer damage or trauma such as obvious grooves and lines, it simply thins, ”says the expert. When this happens, the reasons are different. “First of all, the abuse of clumsy procedures. Let’s not forget that only recently non-absorbable treatments have become outlawed, and until recently many have abused them. In these cases, there may be residues that cause surface hollows and ripples », warns Lia Solomon. Nutrition also plays a key role. «Drastic diets and unbalanced diets are also responsible for a“ wrinkled ”complexion. Drinking little water and not eating foods rich in omega 3, for example, helps to dehydrate the tissues and to impoverish the lipid mattress which makes the skin texture compact ».