Fillers – Patient 132

A woman in her early 50’s who started to notice “smoker’s lines” or “lipstick lines” when she puckered her lips.  She has stopped using a drinking straw in hopes this would help.  She is not a smoker.  This is typically related to subtle loss of soft tissue support with aging and is a perfect application for Redensity, the new RHA filler from Revance, and the first filler to be approved by the FDA for the treatment of active lip lines.    The RHA line has been in Europe for 7 ½ years where it is known as Teoxane, and has been in this country for the last 20 months.  It is a “Non Animal Stabilized Hyaluronic Acid” ( NASHA)  filler. Which can be dissolved with hyaluronidase, and is very flexible but strong, so it can move with the lip but still return to shape.  She is shown before and again, 11 days after treatment of the upper lip lines with one syringe. It does not add “bulk” to the lips but markedly improves the active lip lines.