Hand Filler

All about hand fillers

You’ve probably heard of people having filler injected into their faces for a fuller, more youthful appearance, but did injected into the backs of their hands? They do. And now it’s FDA approved.

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Restylane Lyft, a hyaluronic acid filler, for use in the hands. (Radiesse, a dermal filler of calcium hydroxylapatite, has also been approved by the government for use in the face and hands.)

Filler in the hands is used like filler in other places, to cause a rejuvenating effect by giving more volume and plumpness to an area which has lost some of that.

With aging, there is a loss of collagen and elastin, and the skin gets thinner, and in the hand, when that happens, you can see the tendons and the veins in the hands more prominently, and people associate that with aging.

By using filler, you can plump the back of the hand to make the tendons and veins less visible. People tend to get fillers when they think the appearance of their hands doesn’t match their face.