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Smile line and lower face wrinkles
Smiling; it’s hard to believe that something so fun can result in something not-so-fun like smile lines (aka laugh lines), marionette lines and down-turned mouths. After years of repetitive use, the muscles responsible for all of those big, cheesy grins and laugh-out-loud moments sadly results in deep lines and wrinkles that run from the sides of our nose to the corners of our mouth (smile lines) or from the corners of the mouth down to the chin (marionette lines).
But there’s no need to stop smiling, because there are some simple, non-surgical solutions available for treating these unwelcome facial folds!
Smile line and lower face wrinkles
There are always a number of factors to the occurrence and depth of lines and wrinkles. A few contributors to lower-face lines include sun exposure, smoking, dynamic facial movement and even your sleeping position.
However in most cases, smiles lines and marionette lines are caused by the natural process of ageing that occurs in the mid-face. When we are young, our malar fat pad (the plump tissue in our cheeks) sits along the cheekbone just under the eyes. As we age, gravity causes this fat pad to slide south and, combined with natural muscle shrinkage and loss of elasticity in the skin, become more pronounced.
Deep nasolabial and labiomandibular folds are often accompanied by a drooping mouth and combined, the two can often present the impression of a sad, tired face.
Smile line and lower face wrinkles
We know that your smile is a window into your personality… that it reflects your true happiness… that you’re friendly… outgoing… confident… and have a positive mindset. However, what if you love your smile, though you still want to find out how to get rid of smile lines?
Also known as “laugh lines”, these are wrinkles on the sides of your mouth. While most of our patients are perfectly content to have them, a growing number say these imperfections make their faces look like unflattering “marionette lines”.
Gravity, genetics, smoking, sun damage, dry skin, and a loss of elasticity around your mouth are all reasons why you can develop smile lines. Protecting your skin by using sunscreen, moisturizing, eating a healthy diet, and quitting smoking can all help.
You actually have a choice of treatments when considering how to get rid of laugh lines.
These wrinkles that develop on both sides of your mouth can sometimes look like parenthesis, though smile lines can also show up on the sides of your eyes –– better known by the unattractive name of “crow’s feet”.
Smile line and lower face wrinkles
You actually have a choice of treatments when considering how to get rid of laugh lines.
These wrinkles that develop on both sides of your mouth can sometimes look like parenthesis, though smile lines can also show up on the sides of your eyes –– better known by the unattractive name of “crow’s feet”.
First, DR. REZA AKEF, our board-certified physician who specializes in surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures, highly recommends injectable facial fillers such as Radiesse.
This extremely popular brand:
Smile line and lower face wrinkles
Smile line and lower face wrinkles
At Angel Gloss Cosmetic Clinic we like to get into the nitty gritty details of the treatments we offer. Sometimes there is so much more to a treatment than the original purpose that it’s meant to serve, meaning that the more you know about it, the more you might find that it’s actually a treatment for you, even though you may have initially thought it wasn’t.
The thread lift is just one of these treatments. You may have heard and read a lot about the versatility of thread lifting in terms of its lifting effect, and we’ve certainly talked a lot about thread lifts through this lens—how it can delay a facelift or be a good option for someone who doesn’t want surgery. We’ve even talked about how thread lifts can re-shape the tissue in the nose and give the tip a lift.
But we’ve talked less about the more subtle transformations we can create with non-barbed threads called monos.
Smile line and lower face wrinkles
What a lot of people don’t know is that there are a number of different types of PDO threads. PDO stands for polydioxanone, which basically means that the thread is a medical grade thread that your body eventually metabolizes as it’s composed of a protein. And it’s super super thin—thinner than a hair.
The three main types of PDO threads are mono, cog and screw threads. So when we talk about the thread lift in terms of addressing skin laxity, we’re most likely going to use a cog thread which has tiny barbs on it that serves to lift the tissue just below the surface of the skin in the target area.
Mono threads, on the other hand, don’t have barbs. They’re smooth threads that are used more for their collagen producing and volumizing capabilities. Mono threads can also effectively lift and tighten the skin, but they’re used more as a revitalizing skin treatment that works to thicken the skin and improve on textural irregularities of the skin.