Hyaluronic acid

Hyaluronic acid (HA), also called hyaluronate and hyaluronan, is one of the most requested anti-aging active ingredients in the world of beauty, it is present in many cosmetic products and as an injected treatment. This star element is a molecule that is found naturally in our skin, joints, muscles and many other parts of the body. Its function is to help retain water in the tissues –up to a thousand times their weight–, maintaining their condition, elasticity and firmness..

HA is regenerated in our body about a third each day and is ultimately responsible for keeping the skin hydrated, replacing lost volume and counteracting the effects of time. But with age the body reduces its production, giving way to the appearance of wrinkles, sagging and other visible signs of aging.

For this reason, HA is used in aesthetic medicine to stimulate the production of collagen and elastin in the skin, achieving a long list of benefits:

• Provides extra hydration to the skin.
• Smoothes and fills the skin, reducing its imperfections and the treatment is not visually apparent.
• Provides volume, shapes and structures the facial contour.
• Fulfills an antioxidant function.
• Provides natural results.
• Preserves facial dynamism.
• It is a temporary and reversible treatment.

For its proven rejuvenating properties, HA is used in many medical specialties. In aesthetic medicine it is mainly used as a dermal filler in most mobile areas for a wide range of treatments:

• Smooth wrinkles (forehead wrinkles, wrinkles between the brows of worry lines, crow's feet, lower eyelid wrinkles, perioral wrinkles...)
• Lessen dark circles under the eyes or idiopathic hyperchromia of the orbital ring.
• Hide bags under the eyes, so much so that the treatment is popularly known as blepharoplasty without surgery.
• Filling of the temporal fossa.
• Cheekbone filler.
• Model cheeks.
• Moisturise, fill and add volume to the lips.
• Filling of the nasolabial fold or nasogenian groove.
• Rhinoplasty without surgery, shaping the deformities and irregularities of the nose profile to stylize it and harmonize it with the rest of the face.
• Barcode filling.
• Marking of the mandibular arch.
• Chin correction without surgery.
• Reduce neck lines.
• Minimize facial weakness while also improving its elasticity and moisture level.

HA dermal fillers have become one of the most demanded aesthetic treatments.

Once the usual inflammation of the first hours after treatment is overcome, HA fillers usually have immediate and natural results, although they improve between two and four weeks later. Treatment effects can last up to a year. The fact that the treatment is not permanent allows adjustment of the maintenance sessions, making modifications according to the results obtained in each area and the wishes of the patient, personalizing the treatment to the maximum. It is common for the patient to have a greater perception of the benefits as the weeks go by and, above all, after successive sessions.

The average duration of treatment also depends on type of skin, severity of the imperfection to be treated, technique and type of product used by the doctor, as well as the cosmetic routine and lifestyle of the patient, whose collaboration is essential for treatment effects to last as long as possible.