How to Get Rid of Smile Lines
Solutions for Smile Lines at Evexia Medspa
Smile lines often symbolize a life full of joy and laughter. However, for many men and women, their smile lines may be a source of insecurity.
Fortunately, a wide variety of treatments are available to correct and reduce the appearance of these pesky expression lines. From volume restoration to skin tightening, medical aesthetic services are available to diminish smile lines and rejuvenate your appearance.
What Causes Smile Lines to Form?
Smile lines, known as laugh lines or nasolabial folds, are creases from the sides of the nose to the corners of the mouth. These creases are what we call “expression lines.” They naturally develop as we age, first becoming truly noticeable in the early to mid-thirties. Expression lines like the smile lines often form in areas of the face where we are the most expressive. In this case, when we smile and laugh, and even when we frown, the repetitive muscle movements to form these expressions cause the overlying skin to crease—forming lines and wrinkles in the process.
What causes these wrinkles and lines to form in the first place? The primary reason is that the fat pads in the mid- and lower face begin to decline as we age. This process results in a loss of facial volume and skin sagging. Additionally, our skin loses collagen and elastin. With the depletion in elasticity and collagen, our skin becomes thinner, making smile lines more prominent.
This guide discusses the natural and aesthetic treatments for reducing smile lines:
How to Get Rid of Smile Lines Naturally
If you’re not ready to commit to aesthetic services, there are some natural remedies you can try at home and at our medspa to alleviate the appearance of smile lines. These remedies include:
- Facial exercises – These exercises involve specific facial movements, each targeting the muscles around the mouth, cheeks, and jawline. that target the muscles around the mouth, cheeks, and jawline.Performing these exercises regularly helps tone and strengthen these muscles, reducing the appearance of smile lines.
- Medical-grade facials – Evexia Medspa offers the perfect medical-grade facial massages to help naturally get rid of smile lines. We find that massaging the face regularly improves blood flow and lymphatic drainage, promoting skin health and reducing lines and wrinkles.Routine medical-grade facials also help promote skin health and enhance the benefits of other services such as Xeomin and Morpheus8!
- Medical-grade skincare – Medical-grade skincare products are scientifically designed to improve skin texture and tone while addressing a variety of concerns. With an in-depth analysis of your skin, our aestheticians can customize a product treatment plan for you. Evexia Medspa is proud to offer the luxury skincare line ZO Skin Health at our McLean Medspa.
While these natural remedies can help reduce the appearance of smile lines. However, as with anything in life, they may not work for everyone. Also its important to have realistic expectations. There’s obviously a limit to what these measures can achieve and understand that they will likely not get rid of smile lines completely. This is where our aesthetic services come in.
Aesthetic Services to Get Rid of Smile Lines
Dermal Fillers
Dermal fillers are cosmetic injectables used to reduce smile lines. Most fillers are made with a colorless gel, usually hyaluronic acid, and injected into the skin, adding volume and smoothing out fine lines. When administering filler for smile lines, the substances fill the deep creases that form around the mouth from smiling or laughing and are applied to the cheeks to compensate for lost volume, potentially softening or even eliminating smile lines.
Dermal fillers at Evexia Medspa plump up the skin by filling in areas where aging or other factors have led to volume loss. This injection reduces the appearance of smile lines.
All injectables are performed by our experts to produce natural-looking results while smoothing your wrinkles and restoring volume. At Evexia Medspa, dermal fillers will help you look and feel your best.
Botox
Botox injections use a purified form of botulinum toxin to relax facial muscles temporarily. When applied to the muscles around the mouth, Botox reduces the appearance of smile lines by preventing them from creasing and becoming more noticeable.
Botox is a minimally invasive injection that improves the appearance of wrinkles and lines within a few days. Botox results on smile lines last for several months after the injection, helping you enjoy smoother skin and a more rejuvenated appearance.
Evexia Medspa proudly offers safe, effective Botox injections for smile lines. Every Botox injection is performed by our expert injectors specifically in the correct areas around the mouth to help relax smile lines, reducing their appearance.
Xeomin
With Xeomin, a product similar to Botox offered here at Evexia Medspa, we can reduce smile lines with a single treatment!
This simple, noninvasive treatment at Evexia Medspa has helped countless patients restore their confidence by getting rid of deep creases and lines around the mouth.
Here at Evexia Medspa we love using Xeomin because there are no added proteins, making it the purest form of neurotoxin on the market compared to others such as Botox, Dysport and Jeauveau. Xeomin, an FDA-approved treatment, is offered at Evexia Medspa by our experienced nurse injectors. Our team will work with you to develop a treatment plan customized to your goals and desired outcome.
Morpheus8
Morpheus8 treats a wider range of cosmetic concerns to all skin types such as acne scars, sun damage, large pores, fine-lines, wrinkles and stretch marks.
Evexia Medspa loves to use Morpheus8 for reducing the appearance of smile lines. This innovative device uses specially insulated needles that deliver high intensity radio frequency energy into the targeted tissue which stimulates the production of collagen and elastin resulting in enhanced tightening of the skin.
As a result, Morpheus8 treatments help improve skin texture, reducing the appearance of lines and wrinkles, specifically smile lines.
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) effectively removes wrinkles around your eyes, forehead, and, yes, you guessed it, the mouth.
Evexia Medspa uses HIFU to lift and tighten the skin, improving the natural contour and elasticity of your skin. In addition to reducing smile lines, HIFU treatments also tighten the skin and lift the eyebrow lines.
Get rid of smile lines and improve your skin’s appearance with HIFU, the all-in-one facial beautification treatment.
EMFace
If you’re someone who wants to avoid needles, toxins, and fillers, but still want to get rid of smile lines, you’re in luck! EMFace is the first and only needle-free, hands-free procedure that simultaneously treats facial skin and muscles in a 20-minute session.
During your sessions, EMFace perfectly stimulates your facial muscles, lifting, tightening, sculpting your face to perfection! Smile lines don’t stand a chance with EMFace.
Evexia Medspa is proud to be an exclusive EMFace provider in the northern Virginia and greater Washington DC area. This new technology makes eliminating smile lines almost effortless.
EXION
EXION is the newest RF Microneedling device available. The new EXION device from BTL offers the latest advancements in skin treatment technology. This all-inclusive device uses a range of unique energy combinations to address a variety of skin concerns across 23 different areas, from head to toe.
One of the most common reasons people turn to EXION is for a more comfortable rf microneedling experience that still manages to reduce smile lines easily. In a sense, EXION has the same capabilities as Morpheus8. The difference? EXION uses breakthrough AI technology that helps ensure this treatment is comfortable for everyone.
Get Rid of Smile Lines in McLean, VA
If you are tired of smile lines, let Evexia Medspa ease your troubles. Our expert smile line solutions, both natural and cosmetic, are perfectly customized to fit your unique aesthetic goals. Call us to schedule your consultation and learn which smile line reduction option fits you best.