Why Go to a Dentist for Cosmetic Injectables?

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At Dental Partners of Boston, we provide a wide range of cosmetic dental services. Whether you need teeth whitening or dental implants, our specialists are qualified to perform any treatment you might need to look your best. But there’s one popular cosmetic procedure you might not think involves a dentist: Cosmetic injectables.

Cosmetic injection treatments can help adjust your lip shape, sculpt your smile, and smooth wrinkles around your mouth. To complete cosmetic adjustments to your smile, you might consider adding these increasingly popular procedures to your treatment plan.

How Dental Injectables Work

Certain cosmetic injectables include a protein that can be injected into the facial muscles. The treatment doesn’t affect the muscles themselves—it blocks the transmitters between the nerves that move the muscles so that the muscles can’t contract. This stops the motion that causes wrinkles. Three to ten days after the treatment, the skin that surrounds these muscles smooths itself out.

Other cosmetic injectables can replace the fat and collagen in the skin that naturally diminishes as we age, leading to deep wrinkles around the mouth and thinning lips. These injectables can complement cosmetic dentistry procedures to create a truly stunning and youthful smile.

How Cosmetic Injection Treatments Help

Besides the aesthetic effects, certain injectables have been shown to help patients with TMJ, bruxism, and facial pain. It can also help retrain facial muscles for patients with dentures or patients adjusting to certain kinds of orthodontic treatment. In these cases, it only makes sense to receive injections from a trained dentist who understands both the cosmetic and the dental aspects of the procedure.

Why Go to a Dentist for Cosmetic Injectable Treatments

There are a number of reasons to consider going to a dentist for injectable treatment. While you might assume that a plastic surgeon or dermatologist would be the most qualified, the reality is that in most offices, it is the nurses or physicians’ assistants who administer cosmetic injections. While these people do have medical training, a dentist spends years studying facial anatomy. They spend their career injecting anesthetics in many of the same areas. Many patients who receive cosmetic treatments report that injections performed by dentists are quicker and less painful than injections performed by other healthcare professionals.

As knowledge about the dental applications of injectables expands, more and more states are allowing dentists to administer cosmetic injectables. For safe and effective treatments and cosmetic dentistry in Boston, schedule an appointment today with the professionals at Dental Partners of Boston.

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