Is Bellafill a good filler to get projection and width added to a weak chin?

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Is Bellafill a good filler to get projection and width added to a slightly weak chin? And are there any long term drawbacks to using bellafill for chin augmentation? I'm very interested in it considering how long it lasts. A chin implant is not the route I want to go due to the effect the implant as on the bone beneath it but I also don't love the idea of getting filler every 6 months either.

Jason Emer, MD · Answer

"A formal evaluation would be needed to determine what's best. Many of my patients try to avoid surgery, so we perform a non-surgical chin augmentation treatment with injectable fillers. Fillers like Radiesse, Voluma, BellaFill as well as Sculptra are injected into the area, improving the overall appearance of the lower face and balancing the jaw and lip harmony. We use cannula injections to meticulously contour and project the chin, soften the chin along the jawline and improve the chin crease.

Implants are still a great option once you are 100% positive that you are ready for a permanent enhancement.​ I suggest getting a consultation with an experienced cosmetic dermatologist and facial sculpting expert; our practice is located right here in Los Angeles. Best, Dr. Emer"

Nelson Lee Novick, MD · Answer

Permanent fillers can translate into permanent complications. PMML (Bellafil) is a methacrylate (like Super Glue), and therefore, like silicone, is a foreign body and works, like silicone, to prompt the body to make fibrous tissue to kind of wall the foreign body off. And, like silicone, adverse reactions may occur not only immediately after implantation, but as many as five, ten or twenty+ years later. And these reactions can be extremely difficult to treat, even via surgery, which, itself can lead to disfiguring scarring. And, even under the best of circumstances, while the effects of these kinds of fillers are permanent, volumetric and skin changes that come with time typically necessitate further treatments down the road, as is so commonly the case even when implants are used (which often have to be surgically removed and new ones implanted as time goes on).  So, it has been my experience that the use of robust HA fillers, which typically yield natural looking results and may last up to 1.5 (and can be dissolved if ever necessary) are the safer, more logical alternative. Hope this helps. Best of luck.

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