We discourage patients from trying to discern the actual dermal filler to have injected. Here’s why: there are nuances to each product that does truly make some products better-suited to particular treatments and/or cases. However, the best indicator of your result is the injector. Injectors each have their own ways of approaching treatments – little tricks they use or special techniques that they find work well for their injection style, and their familiarity and comfort with a product play a large role into what they can make that product do for you.
For example, some physicians prefer Voluma because it swells as it attracts and holds onto more water with time, and that gives it more of a lift over time. But some physicians prefer that Lyft doesn’t change over time, allowing them to be very precise in their injections. Each physician may prefer one of these products over another for the same treatment areas in different patients. It’s very individualized.
So we tell patients that for the best results, they should select an experienced and skilled provider, clearly communicate what result they hope to achieve, and then allow the physician to select the tools to achieve that goal.