Facial filler
| Field | Medicine |
|---|---|
| Also known as | dermal filler, injectable filler
|
Facial filler is injected volume under the skin. In looksmaxxing it is used on jawline, chin, cheeks, tear trough, and nasolabial fold. It is medicine. It does not grow a ramus or move a maxilla.
Kinds and sites are listed below. Overfill is a documented failure mode: pillow cheeks, a shelf along the mandible, trout-mouth lips, Tyndall-blue tear troughs.
Families
| Kind | What it is | Typical fade |
|---|---|---|
| Hyaluronic acid filler (HA) | Gel that binds water. Reversible with hyaluronidase. | months–2 years by product and site |
| Calcium hydroxylapatite (CaHA, Radiesse) | Microspheres in gel; some biostimulation. Not an HA. Not dissolved by hyaluronidase. | ~12–18 months |
| PLLA (Sculptra) | Biostimulator; collagen over months, not instant gel. | staged; effect 1–2 years |
| PMMA filler (Bellafill and kin) | Permanent microspheres. Revision is surgery. | lasting |
| Fat grafting | Your fat, harvested and placed. Take is unpredictable. | partial survival |
Off-label mixing, “liquid rhino,” and unlicensed gel are how people lose a nose or an eye. See vascular occlusion and surgical pitfalls.
Sites
- Jawline filler / chin filler — contour along the mandible. Not a custom jawline implant.
- Cheek filler / midface — volume on or in front of the zygoma.
- Tear trough filler — thin-skin, high-complication site.
- Nasolabial fold / nasolabial fold filler
- Marionette lines
- Temple filler — temporal hollow; vascular danger zone.
- Lip filler
Limits
Filler does not move bone, fix a recessed maxilla, or replace a deep plane facelift when the problem is descent. It does not hide a high-body fat neck. Off-label “liquid rhinoplasty” on a thick male dorsum is a volume blob with a documented vascular occlusion / blindness pathway — that class of harm belongs in the body of the article, not only at the end.
This wiki's view
Use filler for volume that is missing. Use hitch or surgery for tissue that has dropped (see nasolabial fold, jowl). Stiff gel along a jaw can photograph like an implant and will not behave like one in motion or after weight change. Permanent gels (PMMA filler, industrial silicone) are a different risk class than HA.