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Diba Clinics

Lines and
fine wrinkles

We treat lines and fine wrinkles with microneedling, laser and peels. These get collagen production going, which makes the skin firmer and the lines shallower.

A line can sit in your skin or in the muscle beneath it. The therapist establishes which of the two it is, because that decides what works.

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Client during a treatment aimed at skin ageing
At the consultation

Skin or muscle

A line in the muscle and a line in the skin look the same and ask for different things. The therapist looks at rest and in movement.

  1. At rest first

    The therapist looks at your face at complete rest. The lines that are there then are in your skin; they do not disappear when you sit still.

  2. Then in movement

    Smiling, frowning, eyebrows up. The lines that appear only then come from the muscle beneath, and not from the skin itself.

  3. Why that difference counts

    A line in the skin we treat with microneedling, laser or a peel. A line in the muscle asks for something else; we do not work with that.

Is it about more than lines?

Then you are looking wider than this page.

With skin ageing, pigment, texture, elasticity and laxity run into each other. If that is what you are dealing with, the wider page is the better way in.

To skin ageing
Four kinds of line

Four kinds of lines

Four kinds of line that look the same. Whether a line sits in the skin or in the muscle decides which treatment works.

Dehydration lines

dehydration lines
How you recognise it
They disappear once you take proper care of your skin, and they differ by the day and by the season.
What it is
Not a wrinkle but skin short of moisture. The top layer does not lie smooth and catches light in small lines.
What we do
Often nothing drastic. Repair the barrier and hydrate, then look again. This is the picture where people most often buy too much.
This one is ours

This works on the skin, and that is what we do. Count on a series over months rather than on a single session.

Have this looked atTorn between two? Then we work it out together.
No detours

What helps and what we advise against

With lines the gain sits in the right choice and in patience. Collagen builds over months, and coming more often does not speed that up.

This works

  • Establishing first whether the line sits in the skin or in the muscle, because those two ask for different things
  • Getting collagen building going, in a series over months rather than in one session
  • Sun protection, every day. This is by far the biggest factor in how quickly new lines appear
  • A skin analysis, because with this concern it takes months and you see your own face every day
  • Saying when care gives more than a treatment

We advise against this

  • Injectables. We do not work with them, and for some lines that is exactly the logical route
  • Promising that lines disappear. Shallower and less visible is realistic
  • Starting a series for lines caused by dryness. Those go with care
  • Treating skin that has truly let go as though it were laxity. That is surgery
  • Starting on tanned skin
The skin analysis

Why we record it beforehand

With lines it takes months, and in those months you see yourself every day. So you barely notice a gradual change, in either direction. The EVE-M records your skin under fixed light and from a fixed angle.

That makes the difference visible later rather than something you have to believe. And it works the other way too: if little has changed after a series, that is a reason to do something else and not to carry on.

More about the skin analysis

What we measure here

Texture
How fine or coarse the surface of your skin is
Elasticity
How quickly the skin springs back, and where it no longer does
Sun damage
What has already built up beneath the surface

Every axis is measured again at each check-up, under the same lighting. That way a difference later is something you see rather than something you have to take on faith.

For this concern

What we use for this

About lines and wrinkles

Frequently asked questions

How do I know whether it is a wrinkle or a dehydration line?

Look at different moments over a week. A dehydration line changes with the day, the season and your care; a real wrinkle is there the same every morning.

Do you do botox?

No. We work on the skin and not on the muscle. For a line that is only visible in movement an injectable is often the logical route, and then we would rather refer you on than sell you a series that changes little about it.

At what age should I start with this?

There is no age. What does matter is whether there is anything to gain: on skin that is still firm a series gives little, and then sun protection is the whole treatment.

How long before I see something?

Collagen building is a matter of months rather than weeks. So we measure beforehand: over that stretch your own impression is not a reliable measure.

Skin consultation

See progress instead of guessing

With lines it takes months, and you see your own face every day. The skin analysis records under fixed lighting where you started, so that at a following appointment you see the difference side by side.

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