Patient education
Marionette Lines: Causes and Options
Written for someone deciding about their own face rather than studying the subject. If you read only one guide, read the second, because naming which mechanism dominates decides what every other guide means for you.
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10 guides
- What People Mean by Marionette LinesUnderstanding
- Volume Loss, Descent or Muscle Pull: What Is Making the FoldCauses
- How Marionette Lines Are AssessedAssessment
- Marionette Lines That Need a Doctor FirstRed flags
- The Marionette Line Ladder, From Muscle to SurgeryOptions
- Why Filler in the Lower Face AccumulatesRisks
- What Marionette Line Treatment Does Not FixLimits
- When Not to Treat Marionette LinesDeciding
- Questions to Ask About Marionette LinesDeciding
- The Limit of Marionette Line TreatmentLimits
Start with what is actually folding
Arrange an assessment. We will look at the fold at rest and in movement, at where the tissue above it now sits and at the chin, and say which of the three mechanisms is doing the folding.