Why Repeated Filler Treatments Aren’t Advisable

The other thing that happens when you do fillers repeatedly is your body starts to more or less ignore it. So if you did fill on your lips once, then you do it a few months later to give it kind of bump it up a little bit. Now you're putting filler inside a filler, and there's less reactive oxygen species to expose into the filler. So we see a little bit less breakdown. And over time, when people get their lips done repeatedly, it starts lasting longer and longer. One example I had when I first learned about this understanding, it was, you know, 20 years ago when these first came out, about 05 or 06, and I had patients that we would do their lip fillers, and they got a little kind of on the fuller side. They were really happy with them, and they'd maintain it. And then I wouldn't see them for five to seven years. They come back and their lips were still fuller than they were to begin with, but they weren't quite as full as they were when they got their third or fourth, fifth treatment.