Facial balancing is more than a trend. If you think about it, it was always the intention behind injectable treatments like dermal fillers—to enhance facial features and restore volume, offering a subtle, tasteful touch to improve symmetry and overall harmony among your features.
At Galt Dermatology & Concierge Medicine, we specialize in facial balancing in Fort Lauderdale, creating results that hardly make it look like you’ve stepped into our office at all.
Before we explain our approach to facial balancing, let’s first define what this procedure is.
What Is Facial Balancing?
You probably have a “good side” of your face, the one that you angle towards the camera when taking a photo. This is the side that feels more attractive to you; your cheek is more lifted, and maybe your under-eye looks less hollow.
You might think the obvious answer is to make both sides of your face look like your “good side,” but there’s more to it than that. Facial balancing is about creating both symmetry and harmony by adding more volume to smooth wrinkles and to improve facial contours, looking not at any single feature, but rather at your appearance as a whole.
Facial symmetry seeks to achieve a balance between the two sides of your face. Facial harmony, on the other hand, refers to the proportional relationship between all the features. Both concepts are critical to achieving a balanced, youthful, and refreshed look.
Common areas we assess for facial balancing in Fort Lauderdale include:
- Lips
- Cheeks
- Nose
- Under-eyes
- Temples
Why Is It Only Now Gaining Recognition?
Injectables like dermal fillers have been given a bad reputation. In the past, phrases like “overdone” and “pillow face” have surrounded these injectables, creating popular misconceptions.
That’s because inexperienced injectors may use too much filler, the wrong products, or poor techniques. They also may only focus on a single area of the face, rather than considering how it would affect your overall appearance. This often results in an unnatural, unharmonious finish, with proportions that feel off-kilter.
Facial balancing takes a more thoughtful approach to injectables by using quality ingredients, smaller dosages, and precise injecting techniques. Rather than focusing on a single facial area, we assess your entire face, taking into account the ratios and harmony of your features. This approach isn’t meant to change how you look. Instead, it subtly refines your facial features, creating an aesthetically pleasing outcome that enhances—not overpowers—your natural beauty.
Our Brands and Formulas
While dermal fillers are given the most recognition for facial balancing, they aren’t the only injectables we use. Bio-stimulators like Sculptra, and wrinkle relaxers like Botox and Dysport, also deserve some credit for facial balancing in Fort Lauderdale.
Dermal Fillers: Restylane
Restylane is an FDA-approved formula that adds and replenishes volume to the skin using a specialized hyaluronic acid (HA) injectable formula. Most often, people choose these formulas to reduce the appearance of static wrinkles, which remain on your face even when your expressions are at rest, or fill facial hollows.
HA is a naturally occurring substance in your body that has the ability to hold up to 1,000 times its weight in water. As we age, our body’s production of HA gradually diminishes, leaving our skin susceptible to volume loss and wrinkle formation.
When injected precisely and conservatively into areas like your lips, temples, cheeks, or jowls, the restored volume adds more definition, creating a more youthful and harmonious contour.
At Galt Dermatology, we only offer Restylane, a well-known and well-regarded brand of fillers offering a variety of different formulas, allowing us to tailor your treatment to your unique facial structure. Restylane fillers also incorporate 2 unique technologies:
- XpresHAn: Using a soft gel texture, this technology integrates into the skin’s tissue, allowing for flexibility and natural movement when making facial expressions.
- NASHA: Using a firm gel texture, this technology offers more precision and structure, allowing for stronger definition and contours.
Dermal fillers produce immediate results that last for 9 to 12 months, making them a long-lasting and low-maintenance treatment.
Along with dermal fillers, we may include the following injectable treatments for more complete facial balancing in Fort Lauderdale.
Bio-Stimulating Fillers: Sculptra
Unlike dermal fillers, bio-stimulating fillers like Sculptra don’t produce immediate results or use HA. Instead, they gradually stimulate collagen production, a vital protein in your body that acts as your skin’s internal framework, providing strength and structure. Just as your body’s HA production declines with age, so does its collagen production, leaving your skin more susceptible to fine lines, wrinkles, and laxity.
With the boost of collagen from a Sculptra treatment you achieve natural-looking results because they are natural.
The results from these FDA-approved collagen injections appear gradually and gracefully as they stimulate the production of this structural skin protein to replenish volume and soften wrinkles.
Sculptra results can last for up to 2 years, providing long-lasting benefits that often enhance your other treatments for facial balancing in Fort Lauderdale.
Wrinkle Relaxers: Botox and Dysport
Wrinkle relaxers do more than relax dynamic wrinkles, which appear with facial movement. They can also enhance your lips, eyebrows, jawline, and even your neck.
Botox and Dysport are FDA-approved neuromodulators that alter your facial muscles, relaxing them to limit movement. This helps soften and prevent the formation of fine lines and wrinkles that appear with expressions. While they have similar formulas, Botox works best in smaller areas, like the corners of the eyes, whereas Dysport spreads more easily to cover large areas, such as the forehead.
Beyond their wrinkle-relaxing abilities, we may incorporate Botox or Dysport into our approach for facial balancing in Fort Lauderdale. We can use neuromodulators to achieve the following:
- Jaw Slimming: An overactive jaw can give you a pronounced, square jawline. When injected into your jaw muscles, Botox calms these muscles, leading them to gradually shrink and create a slimmer, V-shaped jawline.
- Lip Enhancements: Instead of adding volume to your upper lip, Botox relaxes the surrounding muscles, causing your upper lip to “flip” outward and appear more full. This also reduces the visibility of excessive gum tissue, giving you a relaxed, balanced smile.
- Nefertiti Lift: When we inject a neuromodulator into your platysma muscle (a thin muscle that runs along your neck), we perform what is known as the “Nefertiti lift,” which creates a more lifted, youthful, and contoured jawline.
- Brow Lift: When injected above your eyebrows, Botox can lift the brows and open the eyes, creating a more alert resting expression. This technique also improves drooping eyelids.
Results of Botox and Dysport last for 3 to 4 months, making them a good, low-commitment treatment for facial balancing in Fort Lauderdale.
Combining Treatments
You may benefit from combining your injectable treatments, as different formulas can best address different concerns. For example, we may use Botox to slim your jawline, dermal fillers to define your cheek contour, and Sculptra to provide long-lasting skin-tightening benefits.
With these injectables, we personalize your treatment so we can enhance your natural beauty and improve overall facial harmony.
In some cases, we may also recommend non-injectable treatments to tighten skin, reduce wrinkles, and even improve your complexion.
These treatments all stimulate collagen production and pair well with our injectable formulas for enhanced, natural results.
Meet Our Provider: Dr. Miguel Villacorta
While we only use FDA-approved products, a skilled hand is key to achieving the refined, natural results we specialize in. At Galt Dermatology, a board-certified physician will always see you—no exceptions. All of our dermatologists have completed over 10,000 hours of residency training to deliver quality care for every patient.
You’ll meet with Dr. Miguel Villacorta, MPH, FAAD, who is not only a distinguished board-certified dermatologist, but also the first doctor to establish a direct-care dermatology practice in South Florida, where he continues to raise the bar in patient care. He honed his dermatology expertise with an internship and residency at Broward Health in Fort Lauderdale, receiving the Resident of the Year award.
Our Process for Facial Balancing
Here is what you can expect when you visit us for facial balancing in Fort Lauderdale.
Consultation
Dr. Villacorta will listen intently and patiently as you explain your areas of concern. He’ll assess your skin and determine which injectable will work best to improve your facial ratios and proportions. He will also review your medical history, looking for any potential contraindications that may interfere with your treatment.
Before you leave, Dr. Villacorta will give you pre-care instructions based on your treatment plan.
Injections That Are Anything But One-Size-Fits-All
At our office, every injectable treatment begins with a thoughtful, personalized evaluation. We don’t believe in cookie-cutter treatments or overdone results. Instead, we take the time to understand your facial anatomy—including the underlying musculature, skin quality, and natural bone structure—to design an approach that enhances your features and restores balance while keeping you looking like you.
Your visit will begin in one of our comfortable, private treatment rooms. After cleansing your skin, Dr. Villacorta will tailor the treatment based on your specific needs and goals:
Wrinkle Relaxers (Botox/Dysport)
Using a deep understanding of facial kinetics, Dr. Villacorta will guide you through expressions that reveal how your muscles move. This allows for precise mapping and placement of neuromodulators, targeting only the muscles that contribute to wrinkles — while preserving natural movement and expression. The result: a refreshed, youthful look that never feels frozen.
Dermal Fillers
Whether you’re addressing volume loss or subtly enhancing features like the lips, cheeks, chin, or jawline, dermal fillers are always used conservatively and strategically. Dr. Villacorta selects the ideal hyaluronic acid (HA)-based filler for your goals and injects in a way that complements your facial proportions for elegant, balanced results.
Sculptra
This collagen-stimulating injectable is used to gradually restore volume and improve skin texture over time. Dr. Villacorta assesses key areas prone to age-related volume loss — like the temples, cheeks, and jawline — and injects Sculptra in a way that encourages your body’s own collagen production, delivering subtle and graceful rejuvenation that unfolds over weeks.
Balance, Refine, and Reveal Your Best Features
Facial balancing in Fort Lauderdale isn’t about changing how you look — it’s about revealing the harmony that’s already there. Through expert placement of filler in areas like the cheeks, chin, jawline, or lips, we help refine your features to bring out your natural beauty in a way that feels effortless and elevated.
This treatment is fully customized and guided by a deep understanding of facial anatomy, proportion, and artistry. Performed by a skilled physician, every enhancement is subtle but powerful — the kind of results that make people say, “You look amazing… but I can’t put my finger on why.”
Whether you’re prepping for a special occasion or simply want to feel more confident in photos, facial balancing is a game-changer. Thoughtful. Natural. Designed for you.
Book your consultation today and let’s bring out your best — not someone else’s idea of beauty, but yours.
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