Looking For A Filler Alternative? Why You Should Try Biostimulators

Looking for an alternative to filler that gives you really natural results and a skin quality boost? We might have just the thing! Biostimulators are one of this year’s buzziest injectable treatments and in the right hands they can help you smooth wrinkles and treat signs of ageing across your full face.

We spoke to two leading aesthetic doctors, Dr Ashwin Soni and Professor Bob Khanna to discover everything you need to know about the trending group of injectables.

Firstly, what are biostimulators?

There’s a hint in their name. “Biostimulators are injectable products that stimulate your own body’s cells to increase things that we lose with time and age,” explains the plastic surgeon and founder of The Soni Clinic, Dr Ashwin Soni.

That can have a pretty effective anti-ageing effect on your skin. “Biostimulators are used to boost collagen production,” says the facial aesthetics expert Professor Bob Khanna. And, this can “lead to better quality skin in terms of texture, tone, glow, fewer fine lines and wrinkles.”

What types of biostimulator are best?

How are they different from fillers?

In simple terms: filler tackles signs of ageing by restoring volume. Biostimulators work by improving skin quality.

What’s next for biostimulators?

Still, the future looks very bright indeed for these injectable skin boosters – with aesthetic doctors using them both to maximise the results from other injectables – and, even perhaps, helping you push back a mini facelift…

“The forward-thinking clinician ought to look at combining fillers and biostimulators for their patients so that they get the best of both types of products in one session,” says Professor Khanna. He regularly teaches such combination techniques to clinicians all over the world.

“We can also delay the need for more invasive plastic surgeries with the introduction of [biostimulating] products  – and this is coming from a plastic surgeon!,” says Dr Soni. “The ability to provide a lift to facial tissues, reduce sagging and jowls, and improve the quality of the skin, is pretty amazing to get from an injectable product. I feel as though we can really help patients who previously would have jumped straight for a face and neck lift.”