From Huffpost.com….
It happens every time: I stare at before-and-after photos of women who’ve gotten lip fillers, considering making an appointment. Then, as the social media algorithms are designed to do, I’m delivered videos full of warnings: “Filler migrates! It never dissolves! Look how disfigured these people’s faces are now!” The voices shout at me while I’m shown MRIs of blobs of filler that have migrated from someone’s cheekbones to behind their eyeballs.
It’s enough to scare anyone away from the seemingly simple procedure, but with dermal fillers becoming so ubiquitous, it can’t actually be as bad as these videos try to make us believe. Right?
What is filler, anyway?
Fillers are injected into the face to create a variety of looks, to add volume where it’s been lost to age or where it never existed. They plump lips, heighten cheeks, smooth smile lines and build jaw lines.
