The triangle of youth

There are various factors which contribute to ageing. These include:

• Loss of skin elasticity 
• Loss of collagen supporting the skin
• Loss of buccal fat pads
• Gravity!!

All of these factors together means everything starts heading south. So where we start off with plump cheeks slimming down to a defined narrower jaw line forming an upside triangle, the cheeks thin out and drop, jowls start to develop and we are left with the pyramid of age as you can see in the picture.

  
With this the fold around the mouth deepen and static lines form due to the skin loosing its support and elasticity.

So a big aim in creating a more youthful appearance is to recreate the triangle of youth. When we do this it can give a very natural yet overall more youthful appearance by basically putting everything back where it was!! And there are ways to do it without resorting to full surgery.

1. Prevention

As always, starting a good skincare routine from an early age can help avoid a lot of this. A good regime with high quality vitamin enriched products and anti ageing creams etc to help keep the skin quality good, maintain elastin and collagen. As always keeping off the fags, daily sunscreen and generally not being a sun worshipper will improve the quality and elasticity of the skin massively. Otherwise this is the result:

  

For more information, see previous post on skin care and prevention.

2. Cheek augmentation

Fillers at the cheek line.  This will bring back the width at the cheek line where it should be, as well as smoothing out fine lines in that area and will bring the skin and tissue of the lower face back up and restore that triangle and soften the lower face folds and start to help definie the jaw line. And who doesn’t want a killer cheek line anyway!

3. Mid face thread lift with silhouette soft 

This can pull the skin and subcutaneous tissue back up where it should be, the compression in the malar region can provide cheek volumisation and the threads at the jaw line can help to pull the flaccid skin at the jaw line (jowls) back and up.

 
Also the stimulative effect of the poly lactic acid which they are made of stimulate the body to make more collagen around them.

3. Combination treatment

Best results can be seen when a combination of the treatments is used.