What is the Difference Between Botox and Fillers?

Botox is for wrinkles that appear when you make facial expressions, while fillers are used for wrinkles that you can see all the time, even when your face is neutral. Botox works by relaxing the muscles that create the wrinkles in the overlying skin. Fillers are used to plump up your skin so that the wrinkles are smoothed away. Because they plump, they can also replace lost volume due to the aging process, like your cheeks and temples. Your lips can also be enhanced .It's difficult to determine which treatment would be best for you without a photo, however seeing a board certified PS or dermatologist can help you.

To make things simplistic, knowing there are always exceptions, Botox relaxes muscles under lines that are created by muscle movement such as the "11" in the glabellar forehead between the eyebrows, the upper forehead lines and the crows feet lines at the outer eyelid area.  Fillers such as Restylane and Juvederm Ultra  help raise up creases that are present at rest, such as the tear troughs, smile folds, marinonette lines and the horizontal labiomental crease between the lip and chin. Volumizers which tend to be thicker fillers such as Perlane, Juvederm UltraPlus and Radiesse and collagen stimulants such as Sculptra are used to plump up depressed cheeks, temples and prejowl sulci (the depression between the jowl and chin along the forward jaw).