What is Juvederm (dermal fillers)?

Juvederm ® is the smooth gel filler that your doctor uses to instantly smooth away wrinkles around your mouth and nose. With just one treatment, you’ll get a smooth and natural-looking result.

Juvederm is an injectable filler that is commonly used to add fullness, volumize the lips and to fill in the facial folds that appear from the corner of your nose to the corner of the mouth. From smile lines to vertical lip lines, you can smooth away unwanted wrinkles and restore natural contours. Everyone’s skin ages differently and JUVÉDERM® may be used to rejuvenate multiple problem areas that have lost fat and collagen as we age. Using a fine needle, your doctor eases

JUVÉDERM® under the skin to fill the soft tissue of the dermis. This adds volume and diminishes the appearance of wrinkles and nasolabial folds instantly.
Young, healthy-looking skin contains an abundance of a naturally hydrating substance called hyaluronic acid (HA). As we age, time, sunlight and other factors deplete the amount of HA in your skin, allowing skin to lose structure and volume – creating unwanted facial folds and wrinkles, like those parentheses around your nose and mouth.

Juvederm helps replace the HA your skin has lost, adding volume in the depth of the folds and wrinkles to smooth their appearance.

Juvederm is the only filler that has been FDA approved to last up to 1 year.

While there are a variety of hyaluronic acid fillers, JUVÉDERM® is uniquely formulated. A next generation HA filler, JUVÉDERM® uses a manufacturing process called HYLACROSS™ technology. HYLACROSS™ gives JUVÉDERM® its special smooth-gel structure that holds up over time. That’s why JUVÉDERM® is the first smooth-consistency HA gel and the only HA filler that’s FDA approved* to last up to one year with only one treatment.

There is one huge advantage dentists have in delivering dermal fillers over any other healthcare professional. Most physicians and nurses use topical anesthetics and ice on the skin to numb the patient. Some actually learn how to give dental anesthesia but very few are proficient at it. As you may imagine, this will be a painful procedure when done this way. Indeed, this is the reason that many patients prefer dentists to deliver dermal fillers.

Why are BOTOX and JUVEDERM (dermal fillers) becoming so popular with dentists now?

Florida state boards allow dentists to perform these procedures. Dentists are realizing that their knowledge of the facial structures and certainly the lower half of the face far exceeds most other healthcare providers including most plastic surgeons, dermatologists, physicians, nurses, physicians assistants, and medical aestheticians, all who can now place Botox and dermal fillers. Dentists are among the best injectors in any healthcare industry. Finally, dentists have the artistic creativity, accuracy in perception of facial esthetic symmetry and clinical skills necessary to have very successful outcomes for their patients.

Both Botox and dermal fillers are procedures that take anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes.