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Overusing Fillers: Dr. Jacono’s Honest Opinion

Dr. Jacono Discusses Overfilling the Face leading to Filler Fatigue

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The Dangers of Overfilling the Face

For better or worse, the modern social media user has fallen in love with facial filler. Restylane, Belotero, Radiesse, and Voluma have become household names, and dominate conversations about beauty and wellness. The reason for this is simple. These cosmetic treatments, while temporary, offer excellent results that circumvent the need for surgery. Patients can smooth wrinkles, fill hollow cheeks, and even augment their lips. What’s more, a typical filler session lasts anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, and recovery time is negligible. Most people can return to work immediately after treatment. There are also rarely any complications more severe than redness and mild swelling.

The problem with fillers, however, is that they can be overused. A persistent obsession with injectables may not only distort normal, proportional features but make a person look completely unnatural.

“These days, you can quickly spot overfilling,” says Dr. Jacono. “People who have had too much filler have faces that are as big as cabbages. I see men and women like this all the time. They’ve had too much work done, and it does them no good. Most of the time, too, they’re unhappy with how they look.”

Dr. Jacono is one of a growing number of cosmetic surgeons who feel that embracing fillers makes users look older. There are a few reasons for this, but the good news is that there are ways to prevent this from happening.

Remember: Facial Filler Isn’t a Time Machine

The main reason that people overfill their faces is a belief that injectables can solve all aging problems. The primary issue with this thinking is that it is untrue.

“The unfortunate reality is that you can’t knock more than four years off your appearance with filler,” says Dr. Jacono. “A lot of people will try to make you believe that you can, but injectables can’t compare with surgery. Fillers also have diminishing returns, which can be a major turn-off for more discerning patients. It’s frustrating to have to constantly return to your doctor for touch-ups.”

According to Dr. Jacono, some physicians fill the face too much. This makes it appear unnaturally large and wide, and therefore older.

“We associate a lack of proportion with advanced age,” he explains. “This causes real problems for the skin, as fillers act like tissue expanders. When you overfill for a long period of time, it adds weight to the skin, and also stretches it. This can exacerbate problems like jowling, wrinkling, and sagging. It’s a shame to see.”

Some dermatologists feel that such issues only occur if massive amounts of filler are injected. However, Dr. Jacono insists that this happens more than we realize. Even the most careful consumers are at risk.

“Doctors are incentivized to use more products,” he notes. “This is definitely unscrupulous, but it doesn’t stop all practitioners from doing it.”

Go Easy on Botox

When used in appropriate doses, Botox is a miracle drug. Botulinum toxin, Botox’s active ingredient, limits the movement of certain muscles. It also undoes deeper lines and wrinkles.

That said, Botox can create an unnatural smoothness. It may even make the skin look shiny and waxen. For this reason, Dr. Jacono usually uses half the recommended amount of Botox to get the most natural outcomes.

“In my view, less is more when it comes to aesthetic treatment,” elaborates Dr. Jacono. “It’s better to err on the side of caution. Otherwise, patients may come out looking overdone, and that is not want anyone wants.”

Keep a Record

It is common for filler patients to suffer from a phenomenon known as “filler fatigue.” Dr. Jacono has noticed this, especially in recent years.

“The more filler people use, the more they think they need next time,” says Dr. Jacono. “The same goes for Botox and other injectable options. To prevent yourself from overdoing things, take photos of your face after each appointment. You can also ask an honest friend with an anti-aging regimen what they think. It’s good to get other opinions and make sure that you aren’t doing too much.”

In short, it’s best to stay as measured and objective as possible. After all, there are few things more embarrassing than coming out of the doctor’s office looking like your face has expanded to three times its size.

Credit: Harper’s Bazaar, May 2019—Is Your Work Making You Look Older? by Emily Listfield

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Doctor Jacono’s desire to become a facial plastic surgeon was solidified in grade school. There was a girl on his school bus route who was born with a cleft lip and palate deformity. Unfortunately, whenever she spoke, air and words escaped through her nose. Kids teased her and were cruel, and nobody would sit next to her on the bus, so he decided to sit with her. One day, the girl had plastic surgery and returned to school with her face repaired. Suddenly, classmates saw her face instead of her deformity and immediately treated her normally. It was at that moment that Doctor Jacono knew he wanted to fix people’s faces and change their lives. This is why he has gone on over twenty plastic surgery missions to poor countries around the world and provided free cleft lip and surgery for birth defects to over 500 children.

Because of this experience in his childhood, Doctor Jacono understands that one of our basic needs as human beings is to feel confident about our appearance. It’s is Doctor Jacono’s passion to help his patients achieve their facial aesthetic goals, creating natural appearing results to either enhance their beauty and proportion or rejuvenate their aging appearance. He is a world-renowned leader in the field of facial plastic surgery and only performs surgery on the face, not the body. He has innovated many facelift, eyelid lift, and rhinoplasty surgical techniques, publishing in leading peer reviewed literature and lecturing at plastic surgery conferences all over the world. He is committed to sharing what he has learned teaching surgeons from around the world.

His approach is to maintain your uniqueness and facial identity; it is still you just better. To do this he uses a customized, bespoke approach to each patient employing the most minimally invasive, innovative, and cutting-edge technology. Doctor Jacono has never performed the same procedure on any two of the thousands of patients he has treated. He is committed to providing his surgical expertise in a caring, supportive environment with a professional staff that has you as their focus and concern.