Would fillers be safe to improve a scar from a direct brow lift?

Hello, and thank you for your question. While I understand you are concerned about your results, it is too soon to assume you have already achieved the full outcome or that your surgeon neglected the cosmetic aspect of your procedure. It is best to wait until you have fully healed before considering any treatments to improve your scar.

At that time, a proper evaluation of the area is necessary to recommend the best treatment for cosmetic improvement. Depending on the scar, lasers and microneedling procedures may help address it. For more information, I recommend scheduling an in-person consultation with a reputable board-certified facial plastic surgeon. Your surgeon can address all your concerns and ensure you achieve the best possible outcome. Hope that helps!

It is still early in the healing process and I would not recommend fillers. Incisional scar improvement can achieved with CO2 laser resurfacing and microneedling. It usually takes several treatments but you should see much improvement.

Hello!At 5 weeks post-operatively, scars will continue to undergo considerable changes in color and texture. Without seeing any photos, it is difficult to say whether the procedure was done with cosmesis in mind, but a crescent-shaped incision around eyebrows generally sound like it could hide within or adjacent to the eyebrow without been very noticeable. Having said that, an indented scar would be more visible and may need to be addressed.As for your specific questions about the filler and BBL, IPLs, such as BBL can help with scar texture and color some, but not significantly. For that purpose, pulsed dye lasers (such as VBeam) have been shown to improve both scar characteristics and can be used immediately after surgery. As for fillers, although possible, I personally would not recommend them at this time. For one thing, scars will continue to change quite significantly over the next 1-2 months (and continue to change to up to 6-18 months). Placing a filler under the scar at this time could potentially affect the natural scar remodeling process. Additionally, it will camouflage the scar, so that you would not know whether the scar is actually improving until the filler dissipates, and it would be an extra expense that is only a temporary solution. If the scar is truly indented and does not improve over time, you may benefit from scar revision in the future, which is a relatively quick and simple procedure, to try to evert (elevate) the scar. You may want to address that with the original surgeon, as she should be able to perform that, hopefully at no or little further expense to you.

You will need to wait for further healing time before considering options to improve your scar. An evaluation of the area is needed to determine the recommended treatment for improvement. Sometimes patients do better with lasers or Morpheus8 treatments depending on the issue.