If you are tired of looking tired, Dr Aesthetica offer several treatments that address the effects of upper face aging.

Upper Face Treatments Are Perfect For You If…

You want a non surgical face lift

• You want to rejuvenate your eye area and forehead
• You are dealing with face weight loss/ “Ozempic face”
• You want migraine relief
• You don’t want invasive procedures
• You want noticeable yet natural-looking results

Dr Farmah’s expertise in upper face treatments helps restore youth and vitality to your face. Botox and fillers address both subtle signs of premature aging and deep-set wrinkles and prominent skin sagging. Providing each patient with a customised treatment plan, Dr Farmah’s goal is to help restore confidence in your looks.

Eye Area, Forehead Lines, and Sunken Temple Treatments in West Midlands

Dr Aesthetica is your source for Botox and dermal fillers for upper face aged-related concerns. Whether you just noticed some fine lines beginning to form around your eyes, deal with noticeable volume loss at the temples, or are experiencing “Ozempic face,” Dr Aesthetica can address skin texture and hollowness so you can enjoy a refreshed, natural look.

Have a Problem with Your Upper Face? The Importance of the Eye Area and Forehead

Studies show that what people first notice about your face is your eyes, then notice the health and condition of your skin. As the eye area is one of the first places to show signs of aging, this area of your face is how others often infer your actual age. As a result, you may feel self-conscious about under eye bags and fine lines.

Your upper face also includes your forehead, eyebrows, and temples. Even with good skincare and healthy lifestyle habits, each of these areas is susceptible to signs of premature aging.

It’s also worth noting how the upper face affects the structure of the entire face. If one part of your face begins to lose collagen, this affects the structural support within other areas of the face. For example, hollowing cheeks can lead to sagging skin around the mouth and jowls.

Why does the eye area and forehead age faster than other areas of the body?

Here are several reasons why aging, muscle movement, and volume loss first show around your eyes and forehead:

• Sun exposure:
  UV rays damage skin cells, slowing down skin cell turnover. The upper face, especially the forehead, receives the most direct and intense sun exposure.
• Constant repetitive motion:
  The eyes and forehead are in constant motion, causing the surrounding collagen and elastin fibers to experience micro-damage.
• Structural changes:
  Your eye sockets widen with age. Factor in gravity, and the tissue and skin of your eyes begins to sag downwards.
• Thinner skin:
  Significantly thinner, eye skin contains less subcutaneous fat than other areas of the body.
• Less collagen and elastin:
  The eye area contains less collagen and elastin fibers. With less structural support, the eye area experiences sagging skin and droopiness over time.
• Screen time:
  Screen time increases squinting, resulting in fine lines.
• Genetics:
  You may be predisposed to under eye bags, crows feet, wrinkles and discolouration.
• Beauty habits:
  Rubbing and washing your eye area can cause micro-damage to collage and elastin fibers, leading to premature wrinkles.

Signs of Aging Eyes

Common concerns treated in the eye area include:

• Under-eye hollows
• Under eye bags
• Dark circles
• Crows feet
• Drooping brows
• Drooping eyelids

Signs of Aging Forehead

Common concerns treated in the forehead area include:

• Wrinkles and expression lines
• Frown lines
• Hollow temples

Have a Problem with Your Upper Face? Seek Botox and Dermal Fillers in Birmingham

Botox injections and dermal fillers can help address uneven skin texture, discolouration, and lost volume around your eyes and around your forehead.

While some people use the terms Botox and filler interchangeably, each contains different ingredients and each achieves different skin goals. Here’s what you need to know:

Botox for Fine Lines and Wrinkles

Botox injections address fine lines and wrinkles, by relaxing overactive muscles. The result: smoother, firmer skin. 

Benefits of Botox

Botox Key Active Ingredients and Side Effects

Derived from Botulinum toxin type A, the active ingredient in Botox, derives from Clostridium botulinum bacterium. Botox injections utilise a refined, purified version of botulinum toxin type A.

Common side effects from Botox injections include:

• mild redness
• swelling
• bruising
• tenderness at injection sites

These symptoms usually resolve within a few days. Note that symptoms can vary per patient.

Botulinum toxin is an MHRA-licensed prescription medication.

Dermal Fillers for Lost Volume

As we age, we lose collagen, or what gives our faces a soft, plump “baby face.” Dermal fillers replace lost volume, restoring a youthful, refreshed aesthetic. 

Benefits of Fillers

• Immediate Results: 
  Noticeable improvement right after treatment.
• Non-Surgical: 
  Minimally invasive (no need for incisions or anaesthesia.)
• Quick Procedure: 
  Typically completed in 30 minutes to an hour.
• Natural-Looking: 
  Enhances facial contours without looking overdone.
• Long-Lasting: 
  Effects can last from 6 months to over a year (depends on the filler used.)

Dermal Filler Key Active Ingredients and Side Effects

Dermal fillers typically consist of hyaluronic acid, a substance naturally produced by the body that helps with moisture retention and joint lubrication.

Common side effects from fillers include:

• mild redness
• tenderness at injection sites
• swelling
• bruising

These symptoms usually resolve within a few days. Note that symptoms can vary per patient.

Dermal fillers are CE-marked medical devices, regulated for professional use in the UK.

Consider A Full Non-Surgical Face Lift in Birmingham

Do you want a full facial refresh but without undergoing the knife? A full non-surgical face lift addresses various skin concerns, from sagging to loss of volume, providing a more youthful and revitalised appearance.

A treatment session involves both Botox and dermal fillers to enhance facial features subtly, delivering a smoother complexion and a lifted look without the need for surgery.

Botox Treatments and Dermal Filler Treatments in Birmingham

Forehead Lines Botox in West Midlands

Oftentimes, forehead lines are dynamic lines, or lines that appear with movement (such as smiling or squinting your eyes.) Botox injections help smooth out these lines.

Botox injections also prevent further deepening of existing wrinkles, stemming from repetitive muscle movement. Dr Farmah always consults with his patients, so he can provide a personalised treatment plan for optimal yet natural looking results that preserve expression.

Frown Lines Botox in Birmingham

Also known as worry lines, glabellar lines, and 11 lines, frown lines form between your eyebrows. Aging and stress cause frown lines, affecting people even in their 20s. Frown lines can result in a tired, sad, or aggressive appearance.

Botox injections reduce muscle hyperactivity, leading to noticeable smoothness between the brows. This results in a relaxed, approachable expression, in contrast to the scowling expression associated with frown lines.

Bunny Lines Botox in Birmingham

When you scrunch your face, squint, or smile, you may observe a line on either side of your nose, or “bunny lines,” a type of dynamic wrinkle.

Botox injections in the nasalis muscle (located on both sides of the nose) smooth out bunny lines. The result: a more relaxed, softer expression when you smile. Botox injections can also help prevent the formation of deeper lines.

Botox Brow Lift in Birmingham

Over time, aging and gravity cause the eyebrows to sag and droop, leading to a tired expression. Botox injections help lift sagging brows, opening up the eyes.

If you are wanting the effects of a facelift, but with more natural looking results and achieved non-surgically, consider Botox brow lift, which also smooths forehead lines. Rejuvenate your look with far less downtime and with no incisions involved with Botox Brow Lift.

Botox for Chronic Migraines in Birmingham

Chronic migraines are debilitating headaches that occur on 15 or more days each month, with each headache lasting four hours or more. Migraines can significantly impact your quality of life. Simple, daily tasks can become impossible due to migraine severity and duration. As a result, both family and work life relationships can be impacted by migraines. 

While well-known for its cosmetic uses, Botox (Botulinum Toxin) treatments for migraines effectively reduce the frequency and severity of chronic migraines. Botox injections in the specific muscles and nerve pathways involved in headache pain can provide noticeable relief. Botox is approved by the UK’s MHRA to treat migraines.

Benefits of Botox for Migraines

Noticeable pain relief: Patients observe relief 2 weeks after injections.

Reduced Waiting Times: Skip the long waiting list at hospitals. Dr Aesthetica prioritises timely access to care, ensuring you receive your treatment promptly.

Regular Scheduling: Want best results for treating chronic migraines? At Dr Aesthetica, we offer flexible scheduling options to maintain the recommended intervals between Botox treatments.

Dermal Fillers in Birmingham

Enhance Upper Face Volume & Contour

Fillers restore lost volume, by providing a natural looking, plumping effect. Fillers also provide structural support to your face. You can think of fillers as strengthening the scaffolding of your face. By adding volume to one area, you add support to another area of the face.

Temple Filler in West Midlands

Your temples frame your face. Often overlooked, the temples lose volume over time, leading to a tired or hollow look. You may feel your face looks disproportionate with hollow temples.

The temple area also affects the structural support of your upper face. With Temple Filler, you may observe a direct lifting effect to your lower face and jawline. Improve facial balance with dermal fillers with temple filler treatment.

Tear Trough Filler in Birmingham

Tired of looking tired? Tear Trough Filler addresses under eye hollows.

As we age, the tear tough, a groove beneath each eye, loses volume, leading to a fatigued, aged appearance. Filler placed in the tear trough restores symmetry and vitality to the area by replacing lost volume and reducing under eye circles.

Non Surgical Face Lift: How Botox and Fillers Work Together

Botox and fillers complement one another. While each use different ingredients and achieve different results, they both have the same goal in mind: reducing the signs of aging on your face.

Combing both treatments can achieve a non surgical face lift, both providing a comprehensive approach to skin texture and discolouration problems. By receiving both Botox and fillers, you address multiple signs of aging at once.

Dr Farmah’s consultation with you helps him understand your concerns. By knowing your desired goals, he can suggest tailored treatment regimens for you.

Ozempic Face and Face Weight Loss

At Dr Aesthetica, we have noted an increase in patients seeking to address:

• Ozempic face
• Mounjaro face
• Wegovy face

These weight loss-related facial changes, due to GLP-1 medications, cause a mismatch in appearance: patients happy with body weight loss results, but unhappy with their noticeably gaunt or tired face. Patients dealing with hollowed out cheeks, under eye hollows, dark under circles, and hollow temples want to restore a youthful, plump glow to their faces that still matches their weight loss results.

What Is Ozempic Face?

Ozempic face is when your face becomes noticeably gaunt and hollowed out when taking semaglutide (GLP-1) medication, like Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy. While you may be pleased with your overall weight loss results for your body, you may feel insecure about the effects of face weight loss on your appearance.

Why Face Weight Loss Happens

• Rapid weight loss: Rapid weight loss reduces facial fat and muscle tone, resulting in volume loss around the face. As fat and muscle can provide structural support to your face, loss of fat and muscle affect skin elasticity. The result? Saggy skin and tissue in addition to volume loss.

Rapid weight loss can occur due to medications (such as Ozempic), medical/ hormonal conditions, diet changes, over exercising, etc. For example, runner face refers to runners and athletes with a gaunt or sagging face, similar in looks to “semaglutide face.”

• Aging: As we age, the body produces less collagen and elastin, causing volume loss and sagging skin.
• Genetics and Facial Structure: Genes and facial structure can predispose some individuals to lose facial volume sooner in life.

Weight Loss Face Changes

• Gaunt cheeks: thinning apples of cheeks
• Sunken temples: loss of collagen at corners of forehead
• Drooping brows: brows sitting lower over the eyes
• Under eye hollows: under eye area appears shallow, often with dark circles
• Jowls: sagging skin and tissue around the jawline
• Sagging neck: sagging skin and tissue on and around the neck
• Increased wrinkles: skin texture concerns more visible throughout the face
• Thinner lips: lips appear less plump and defined

Why GLP-1 Medications Affect the Face

Semaglutide medications cause weight loss not just in stubborn areas, such as the abdomen, hips, and thighs. Semaglutide medications affect weight loss throughout the whole body, including your face. The amount of “Ozempic face” or face weight loss depends on:

• the dosage you take and how often
• diet
• exercise
• sun exposure
• tobacco use

While many patients understand the effect of fat loss on the face, many don’t know that fat and muscle loss impact the structural support of your skin. Less subcutaneous fat and less muscle can mean less skin elasticity and firmness. The result? A gaunt face paired with sagging skin.

How To Avoid Ozempic Face

Considering taking semaglutide but scared of face changes? To avoid Ozempic face, focus on slow and steady weight loss. Ozempic face occurs because of rapid weight loss, and the faster you lose weight, the gaunter your face becomes.

Also prioritise healthy foods, such as lean proteins, and remain hydrated.

Botox and Fillers for Ozempic Face Aging

A combination of injectables can address face weight loss concerns.

With a personalised treatment plan, Dr Farmah restores vitality to your face.

Saggy face and hollow cheeks after weight loss

Botox smooths crepey skin while dermal fillers add structural support to sagging skin.

For example, dermal fillers can provide a more contoured jawline.

Facial Wrinkles after weight loss

Botox smooths and firms fine lines resulting from aging and rapid weight loss. As sagging skin further pulls on tissues, firming problem areas with Botox helps reduce future wrinkles.

Sagging brows after weight loss

Botox and dermal fillers can lift up the brows and eye area, for a more awake, focused look.

Non Surgical Face Lift for Weight Loss Face

Combining Botox and dermal fillers provides a comprehensive approach to wrinkles, fine lines, sagging skin, and volume loss resulting from taking semaglutide medications. With Dr Farmah’s extensive knowledge of facial structure, this targeted method, known as non surgical face lift, achieves noticeable yet natural looking results without the need for incisions.

Ozempic Face Before and After

With recommended injectable treatments, patients will notice less wrinkles, firmer skin, brighter skin, and “plumpness” to shallow areas of the face.

To optimize results, Dr Farmah assesses your facial structure while also considering your age, weight changes, and goals to provide tailored care. Offering a conservative, layered approach for natural results, Dr Farmah’s goal is for all patients to enjoy a face that matches the confidence of their body weight loss results.

What to Expect from Cosmetic Injectable Treatments

Before and after care steps for Botox and fillers treatments involve the following:

Consultation: Dr Farmah discusses your concerns and goals. He assesses your upper face and overall facial structure to create a personalised treatment plan.

Treatment: Depending on your needs, you receive Botox for Forehead Lines, Frown Lines, Bunny Lines, Brow Lift, and filler for Temples and Tear Trough. You can also receive Full Non Surgical Face Lift.

Post-Treatment Care: Dr Farmah provides you with post-treatment care instructions. Side effects vary by treatment and per patient. Most side effects involve mild swelling and bruising, which usually resolve within a few days.

Book A Consultation Today to Learn More Upper Face Treatments

To help determine the best treatments for your needs, and to create personalised treatment plans, Dr Aesthetica always consults with his patients first. Contact us today and learn more about how upper face treatments at Dr Aesthetica can revive your look

Frequently Asked Questions about Upper Face Treatments