Back in 2002, Botox® was approved by the FDA for cosmetic use, which was the first step in a monumental shift in the way we approach aging. You may recall the days when a facelift was your only option, but those days are long gone. Today, with just a few injections, we can make wrinkles fade away and add volume to aging and sagging skin.
This explains why cosmetic injectables, including Botox and dermal fillers, continue to rise in popularity. In 2024 alone, nearly 20 million of these treatments were administered across the country, helping millions of Americans to erase the passage of time.
At Bethel Family Medicine, Dr. Douglas R. Grogan, Dr. Jennifer Hall DiFalco, and the rest of our team understand that health and wellness are a pair, which is why we offer Botox, Xeomin®, and dermal fillers. Here, we explore why these anti-aging treatments are so good at what they do and why so many people make them a regular part of their beauty regimes.
And, spoiler alert, if you give us an hour, we can deliver both types of cosmetic injectables together for a top-to-bottom facial treatment that will have people guessing about your age.
Some of the more obvious signs of aging are those dynamic wrinkles that used to only form when you made an expression. These days, the lines are increasing, and they’re starting to become etched into your skin.
Great examples of these are the horizontal lines that streak across your forehead, even when your brows aren’t raised or the crow’s feet at the corners of your eyes, to say nothing of frown lines between your eyebrows that give you a perpetual angry look.
With neurotoxins like Botox and Xeomin, we can make these lines fade away and only appear when you’re actually making an expression.
With a few strategic injections, these neurotoxins temporarily quiet the muscles that contract to form these dynamic wrinkles, leaving smooth, wrinkle-free skin behind.
With your dynamic wrinkles and lines resolved, we can turn our attention to other signs of aging in your face.
After your 20s, your body produces increasingly less collagen and elastin, which are the proteins responsible for the tone, structure, elasticity, and strength in your skin. This loss is only about 1% per year, but the deficit can add up over time.
To combat this loss, we turn to dermal fillers. The first type of filler we use contains hyaluronic acid (HA), a naturally occurring substance in your body. With our HA fillers, we can accomplish some impressive feats, such as:
We also offer collagen-stimulating fillers that create a scaffold in your skin to encourage more collagen and elastin production to lift and tighten your skin from below.
To get to the question we pose in the title of this blog, the answer is yes, we can combine these cosmetic injectable treatments. That’s one of the reasons why cosmetic injectables are so popular — they’re quick and easy treatments that don’t require multiple visits.
Instead, you can spend an hour or so with us, and we can deliver a top-to-bottom face treatment that will hit the reset button on aging skin.
Bear in mind that results have slightly different timelines. For example, HA fillers deliver immediate results that last, on average, 6-12 months. Collagen-stimulating fillers deliver gradual results that fall into place over the weeks and months following your treatment. As a result, you can get longer-lasting results — 12-24 months, or longer.
For Botox and Xeomin, results take about a week to be revealed, and they last for four months or so.
So, if you want to put your best face forward this year with a combination cosmetic injectable treatment, all you have to do is schedule an appointment at our office in Brockton, Massachusetts, today.
