What’s the Best Dermal Filler for Your Chin?

Dermal fillers are some of the most popular injectable treatments, mainly because of the natural-looking improvements they can do to your face without needing surgical intervention. It’s FDA-approved, minimally invasive, and temporary, making patients feel more at ease with it than undergo plastic surgery. Injectable fillers are also pretty versatile – patients also receive them for the chin to make their face look tighter, skinnier, and more contoured.

So what’s the best dermal filler for your chin area? The best chin fillers would depend on your aesthetic goals – if you want to focus on removing wrinkles or enhancing your facial features. For removing marionette lines, Juvéderm, Radiesse, and Restylane are recommended. The FDA has approved Juvederm Volux, Juvederm Voluma XC, and Restylane Defyne for the chin and jawline filler treatment. Plastic surgeons may also use Radiesse and other brands of hyaluronic acid, like Restylane Lyft.

What’s the Most Suitable Dermal Filler for Your Chin?

There are many different types of dermal fillers and even more brands per type. These injectables are gel-like substances that add volume to your face and/or stimulate collagen production. But each type and brand still differ based on what they’re made of, their formulation, and their effect. The best dermal filler for your chin area would depend on the formulation of fillers you need and your aesthetic goals.

What to Look For in a Dermal Filler for the Chin

Choosing the best dermal filler for your chin area is necessary for achieving the results you want. As established, each dermal filler type and brand has different formulations, density, injection depth, and texture. Plastic surgeons use dermal fillers with thicker consistencies because they hold their form better and aren’t malleable – this is necessary since we frequently move our chin and jaw when eating, talking, or making facial expressions.

Aesthetic Goals

You may be familiar with dermal fillers because of the popular cosmetic treatments that make patients achieve their desired look. Some of these procedures include lip fillers that make your lips fuller or nose fillers that shape your nose according to your desired form with minimal recovery time. Dermal fillers may also be used for the chin and jaws.

Choosing the best chin filler injections depends on your aesthetic goals. If you want to receive the procedure to smoothen out facial wrinkles on the chin, like marionette lines and smile lines, the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery recommended some brands. The types of fillers most suitable for this treatment are Radiesse and hyaluronic acid filler brands, like Restylane and Juvederm.

Aside from reducing the appearance of deep chin wrinkles, plastic surgeons also use dermal fillers to enhance the facial shape. Chin filler treatments highlight your chin, giving you a more slender and defined appearance. It reduces the appearance of the double chin and adds volume to your weak chin. This procedure is often paired with a jaw filler treatment for a better-shaped jawline, complementing the chiseled appearance patients desire.

Among all dermal filler brands, only Juvederm Volux, Juvederm Voluma XC, and Restylane Defyne currently have the FDA approval for chin and jawline filler treatments. But your plastic surgeon may also use other brands, like Restylane Lyft, Sculptra, and Radiesse. Sometimes, patients would also receive additional injections for fat removal, like Kybella to make the fillers more noticeable.

Comparing Dermal Fillers for Your Chin Area

Choosing the most suitable dermal filler for your cosmetic treatment depends on your aesthetic goals and the formulation of the filler to inject. Whether it’s for tightening your skin to remove marionette lines or smile lines or augmenting your chin and jaw to achieve better facial contours, there’s a recommended filler to use. These may be Juvederm Volux, Juvederm Voluma XC, Restylane Defyne, Restylane Lyft, Sculptra, or Radiesse.

Juvederm Volux

Juvederm Volux is one of the only dermal filler brands with FDA approval for enhancing the chin and jaws. It has a hyaluronic acid base, a natural and biodegradable substance that you can also find in the body.

It’s a thicker filler that feels like a bone when it sets because its creator, Allergan, really designed it for sculpting your lower face. Compared with Juvederm Voluma XC, this filler has a lifting capacity 3 times higher.

Allergan manufactured Juvederm Volux for more precise sculpting and modeling. While it has a thicker consistency, it has still maintained the ease of controlling during the injection. This facial filler also offers long-lasting results for up to 24 months.

Juvederm Voluma XC

Your provider may also use Juvederm Voluma XC for your chin filler procedure. Aside from Juvederm Volux, FDA also approved this brand model for injectable filler procedures involving the chin and jawline. Because of its thick consistency, it’s also used for reducing the appearance of deep wrinkles.

Juvederm Voluma XC also has the texture to produce satisfying results in areas with bony support structures, like the chin and jaw. These hyaluronic acid-based dermal fillers have been popular for cheek procedures, but experienced injectors still use them for the chin as off-label even before they received an FDA approval. Its results can last up to 2 years.

Restylane Defyne

Restylane Defyne is also an FDA-approved dermal filler for chin and jaw augmentation. It has a thicker consistency enough to smooth out nasolabial folds, marionette lines, and other moderate to severe lines. This hyaluronic acid filler has been formulated with the XpresHAn Technology™, a more innovative process of manufacturing high-end dermal fillers. The results from Restylane Defyne can last from 6 to 12 months.

Restylane Lyft

Restylane Lyft is a hyaluronic acid-based dermal filler that’s used for reducing the appearance of mild to moderate facial wrinkles. This type of filler may also treat volume loss in the face, which is why plastic surgeons see that it may also enhance the chin and jaw. The results of this dermal filler can last up to a year.

Sculptra

A bit different from the hyaluronic acid-based fillers mentioned, Sculptra has a different base, which is poly-L-lactic acid. These synthetic fillers are dependable enough to be used for restoring both illness and age-related volume loss and body augmentation procedures. Because of this, plastic surgeons also use it for chin and jaw enhancement, sometimes off-label. The results from this injectable last for up to 2 years.

Radiesse

Thick enough to reduce the appearance of moderate to severe fine lines and wrinkles, the dermal filler Radiesse can make smile lines and marionette lines disappear. It’s also used to add facial volume for patients experiencing fat loss due to an illness. It’s made with gel microspheres of calcium hydroxyapatite that are similar to the ions of calcium and phosphate that we have in our bodies. Plastic surgeons also use it for augmenting the chin and even the jawline. This filler can last up to 15 months.

	Type of Filler	How Long It Lasts	Best Used For
Juvederm Volux	Hyaluronic Acid	24 months	Chin and jaw augmentation
Juvederm Voluma XC	Hyaluronic Acid	24 months	Chin and jaw augmentation
Restylane Defyne	Hyaluronic Acid	12 months	Chin and jaw augmentation
Restylane Lyft	Hyaluronic Acid	12 months	Mild to moderate marionette lines and smile lines
Sculptra	Poly-L-Lactic Acid	24 months	Chin and jaw augmentation
Radiesse	Calcium Hydroxyapatite	15 months	Chin and jaw augmentation

Why You Need to Choose the Right Dermal Filler

Choosing the best dermal filler injections under the hands of an experienced injector is crucial for you to have your desired results. As established, dermal fillers for the chin and jaw must be thicker since it aims to mimic those areas.

Failing to receive the best dermal filler suitable for your aesthetic goals may leave you with results you’re not happy with. If you’re injected with a thinner dermal filler than what you need for your procedure, the substances may have risks of migrating or moving, though this is pretty rare. It’s also possible that the results may not be as noticeable.

Book an Appointment at Dr. Lanna Aesthetics

When it comes to dermal filler injections for the chin, either for filling wrinkles or augmenting your facial shape, you would need the suitable type of dermal filler. For reshaping your face, thicker dermal fillers that stay in place are better, so that they maintain the contours you want.

Choosing a reliable plastic surgeon, like master injector Dr. Lanna, will help you achieve the results you want. Get the best dermal filler for your chin based on your aesthetic goals by booking an appointment with Dr. Lanna today. To know more about us, feel free to browse through our website.