Hi everyone! Welcome back to our channel! Today I'm going to talk to you about
smokers lines treatments and what we do at our clinic and also, as always, give you a general
overview of what smokers lines are and why these treatments work particularly well for them and
when that might not be a good course of action. Before we begin, if you're here again and
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content in terms of the treatments and the problem itself, in terms of smokers lines,
so that if you want to read a little bit more, you can. So, smoker's lines are basically
the vertical lines that people get around the lips, the most common are around the top lip,
but you will often see in more severe cases that always you also see lines around here.
They happen in men and women and actually the term smoker's lines is a little bit misleading,
anyone can get these lines, so really, they're caused, as with all wrinkles and the rest of our
face, by aging and by muscle activity. In the case of smoker's lines, it's kind of this
action here, that over time, and with skin aging and with a decline in collagen and elastin
you get these vertical lines in the direction of that movement.
And yes, smoking does exacerbate them and it does make the lines worse, but plenty of people
who've never smoked in their life also have these lines. So it's just important, and we often
refer to them as vertical lip lines, just so that we can clarify that this isn't
just the only reason that, or the most common or only reason you get them. With these lines,
quite a few people are bothered by them and that's why we tend to get referrals in
our clinic, people coming to see what treatments would work best for them. When they come in with
them, they complain that actually it's just causing unnecessary attention to their mouth
because your lips are a very prominent part of your face, and
if they wear makeup then makeup is kind of caking in there and making it look worse. Also, if
you're wearing a lipstick or lip liner, you lose definition of the lip and you find this feathering
or bleeding of the lipstick in that area. So these are the common reasons and this
is why we've adapted our treatment specifically to answer all of these responses and, of course,
people who don't wear makeup also have them and we see these in men and women equally. So,
with that being said, our treatment is several full. So one of them is to relax the muscles
in this area, especially the top muscles and so we use Botox anti-wrinkle injections for that
and these injections relax the muscles at the top, which kind of exacerbate this movement happening.
The Botox will do that and it will stop the muscle from making the wrinkles bigger or worse.
Then we combine that with a dermal filler and we use Teosyal RHA2. It's a hyaluronic acid
dermal filler that's been specifically designed for use in really mobile areas. It's a really,
really soft filler, it's not there to augment or to plump up, it's just there to provide support
without having any visible fullness in that area, which you don't want, you don't want that kind
of bulky effect. It works like silk and the treatment, you see results straight away, but then,
as the Botox kicks in in about two to three weeks, you start to see the combined effect and
the filler settles by then. With the filler, we also deposit in a few different ways, so we have
kind of lines of filler that go this way that act as a support, as a foundation and they lift
up the wrinkle and then we also go around the lip line itself, which again restores that boundary,
that really important boundary between the lip and the rest of the the skin around the mouth,
so you get kind of a younger-looking, a fresher-looking lip because you've restored that
border and you've strengthened it. And then you also get smoothing of the wrinkles around here
and then with the Botox you stop them from getting worse. With the treatment itself,
the fillers themselves last about 6 to 8 months, in some people a little bit more than that but
that's the average, and then the Botox lasts about 3 to 4 months. Moving forwards, to be honest
the majority of our clients just tend to repeat the combined treatment when the dermal fillers
wear out, so the effect tends to last longer for some reason around here, the Botox,
than it it does for the frown lines or the forehead. But in people where it might
last just as long as it's expected, about 3 to 4 months, they may top up the Botox before
the next bit of filler is due. Again, each person has their own needs, their
own expectations and that's the beauty of these treatments. If you take a personalized approach,
you always end up with the right treatment for the right patient. Really, that's kind
of the the main way we treat these lines. There are other ways, so people for example use laser
therapy to resurface these lines and that works by exfoliating the skin,
so it helps smooth the skin around there, but it doesn't really provide any lifting of the skin.
For very fine or early lines, microneedling can work quite nicely because it stimulates collagen
around this area and of course, with micro needling you perform it on the rest of the face as
well. Profhilo might work quite nicely, again in kind of earlier cases of this, because
it refreshes the skin and it stimulates collagen, so that you don't proceed to these kind of marked
wrinkles. And then of course, in really severe cases where there's a kind of really extreme
lines, you may end up requiring something like surgical intervention. But for our
cases and the people that we've treated and seen in a range of age groups,
this seems to be quite a nice procedure for moderate or moderate to severe vertical lip
lines or smoker's lines. Anyway, that's the end of it. Please leave a comment below if
there's anything that you want to ask about these treatments or vertical lip lines, smokers lines
themselves. Don't forget to subscribe and ring the notification bell. Until next time, see you!