Is the hyaluronic acid used in hydrafacial injections the same as the hyaluronic acid used in rhinoplasty injections? Many of my friends are curious about this question, since hyaluronic acid is also contained in hydrafacial injections, are these two types of hyaluronic acid the same? Since this question is asked, it is time to get a good understanding of the information related to hydrafacial injections and hyaluronic acid injections. Don’t worry, you’ll know the answer after reading the following! If you want to know the difference between the two, then the first thing you need to know is what exactly are hydration injections? Hydration and Moisturization! That’s right, the hyaluronic acid in hydrafacial injections has one core function, and that is to hydrate and moisturize the skin. The most fundamental difference between injectable hyaluronic acid and hydrafacial injection is that it is used for filling and shaping, such as cheek augmentation, apple muscle augmentation, temple augmentation, fading of decree lines and forehead lines, and creating facial contours (chin augmentation, nose job). If you want to try rhinoplasty, chin pads, etc., or have facial depressions, don’t count on hydrafacial injections, and honestly choose hyaluronic acid injections; if you want to hydrate and moisturize your facial skin, hydrafacial injections are definitely a good choice. Why are they not the same efficacy? Because the water light injection can only hit the shallow dermis, so hydration; and rhinoplasty with hyaluronic acid can hit the deep dermis, so it can achieve the effect of shaping. Hydrographic injections and injections of hyaluronic acid levels are different: Hydrographic injections of the injection level is relatively shallow, hydration and moisturizing, to the superficial dermis is enough, generally subcutaneous 0-3mm (masks, a variety of brands of coated hyaluronic acid but only to the epidermal layer, not penetrate through the skin at all, and naturally, it is more difficult to achieve the effect of hydration and moisturizing), 1 hyaluronic acid molecules will be able to absorb their own weight 500 times the amount of water. If you choose to use hyaluronic acid injection as your daily skin care routine, your skin will naturally become hydrated and tender! While hyaluronic acid will be injected into the deep dermis when filling and shaping, rhinoplasty injection is needed to inject hyaluronic acid into the periosteum layer of the skin in order to achieve good rhinoplasty results. The choice of hyaluronic acid is naturally different: hydrographic injection can only choose small molecule hyaluronic acid; filler shaping to use large molecule hyaluronic acid. Hydrographic injection should use small molecule hyaluronic acid with low cross-linking degree or no cross-linking, while injecting hyaluronic acid for facial filler contouring (apple muscle, rhinoplasty, etc.), according to the different parts of the selection of higher cross-linking degree and the larger molecule of hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid is divided into three categories according to its molecular weight: small molecule, medium molecule and large molecule. Professional doctors will choose hyaluronic acid of different molecular sizes according to the specific conditions of different candidates to reshape their beautiful face and full three-dimensional facial contour. Small Molecule Hyaluronic Acid: Used for dermal injections on the whole face, it can replenish the missing water in the dermis and repair the damaged skin to moisturize and rejuvenate the skin. Medium molecule hyaluronic acid: Usually used to remove wrinkles, the injection site is usually for the tear trough, lips and wrinkles across the place, but also to fill the depression, such as cheeks, the injection level must be to the deep tissues, can not fill the skin surface. Large molecule hyaluronic acid: mainly used in breast augmentation, buttock augmentation, nose job, chin augmentation and other plastic surgery, can also be used to remove wrinkles and shape, such as cheek augmentation, filler site is the deep tissue. Hydrographic injection level is very shallow, can only choose soft small molecule hyaluronic acid. According to the degree of crosslinking hyaluronic acid can be divided into crosslinked and non-crosslinked, which crosslinking inside and involved in the crosslinking degree of high and low issues. Hyaluronic acid is supposed to lock moisture in the epidermis and dermis of the skin, but it is easily broken down and absorbed, so if pure hyaluronic acid is injected into the skin, it will soon be absorbed and degraded! The cross-linking agent connects the hyaluronic acid molecules to form a mesh scaffolding, so it won’t be easily absorbed. The higher the degree of cross-linking, the longer the effect of hyaluronic acid lasts. That is to say: the higher the degree of cross-linking, the more viscous the particles, the lower the elasticity, the longer the effect is maintained, but the higher the degree of cross-linking involves the problem that the cross-linking agent is not good for metabolism, so it is not the higher the better. Hyaluronic acid in water light injection should be selected non-crosslinked or low crosslinking, otherwise the skin may produce hard knot phenomenon. Therefore, the effect of water light injection maintenance time from a few weeks to a few months, with the choice of hyaluronic acid nature: if non-crosslinked, a few weeks on the metabolism; crosslinking degree of low, can maintain a few months. The effect of hyaluronic acid injected into the face lasts for about 6-12 months. Hydrafacial injection course: 1 month to do 1 time, 1 time can feel the obvious changes, 1 course of 6 times after the hydration effect to maintain a more lasting. Hyaluronic acid injections: 1 to 2 times a year, or as required by the doctor for regular replenishment. Is the hyaluronic acid used for hydration injection the same as the hyaluronic acid used for rhinoplasty injection? After reading the above, you probably already have an understanding of it, here to remind you is that there are many kinds of water light injection, when choosing, you must choose a regular hospital for injection, so as not to affect the effect. Secondly, safety is not guaranteed to the greatest extent!