If a thread lift and filler are the foundation work for your face, lifting devices are the interior finishes and Botox is the ongoing maintenance. Here’s how skin Botox helps prevent aging, how treatment priorities differ by age, and how to take it step by step.
Hello from DAYONE Clinic. If lifting sagging areas with a thread lift and restoring lost volume with filler is the foundation work for your face, what comes next? Today we’ll use a home renovation analogy to explain where skin care—including Botox—fits in.
Foundation first, then the interior
If you think of facial treatments as work on a house, it breaks down like this.
Foundation work—lifting what’s sagging (thread lift) and filling what’s hollow (filler). These two need to be addressed first for the other treatments to work as they should.
Interior finishes—once the foundation is in place, regular sessions with lifting devices such as Thermage, which improve skin firmness and texture, can make things look much better.
Ongoing maintenance—this is where Botox comes in.
Botox is less about creating a big change all at once and more about consistent maintenance. That’s why it’s best to keep it going with a few sessions a year.
What does skin Botox actually do?
Skin Botox (also called micro-Botox) means injecting tiny amounts spread across the entire face. It can soften existing fine lines and pores, but its bigger role is helping to prevent and slow future aging.
Take the vertical lines that form on the cheeks, often called “cat lines.” If you start treating them with Botox regularly while they’re still faint, you can slow how quickly they deepen. Preventive Botox works far better than waiting until those lines have already deepened.
Treatment priorities change with age
One thing we want to emphasize: even a treatment with a good reputation isn’t equally necessary for everyone. For people in their 20s and 30s, for example, sagging usually isn’t the main concern—making small, gradual improvements with filler to hollow areas or areas they’d like to enhance is a better fit. We don’t necessarily recommend a thread lift first.
When sagging is clearly visible, on the other hand, correcting it becomes the top priority. In that case, we start with a thread lift, use filler sparingly and only where it’s needed, and keep up Botox regularly alongside.
You can take it one step at a time
If that sounds like a lot of treatments, you don’t have to do everything at once. Going in order—starting with what needs attention most urgently and will show results right away—is a perfectly good approach.
Moving through it step by step—sagging → hollowing → skin care—can give you results that look much more natural and that you’re happier with.
The bottom line
What matters isn’t following whatever treatment other people swear by—it’s a tailored approach that starts with what your face needs most right now. We encourage you to visit DAYONE Clinic near Gangnam Station for an in-depth consultation with your doctor, and feel free to reach out anytime with questions.
This post is based on an interview from DAYONE Clinic’s YouTube channel, Face Design Lab.
This article is general information about the treatment and does not replace an individual diagnosis or treatment plan. Results and their duration vary from person to person.
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