My face is slightly pink, as if I’ve gone for a long run.
Afterward, Dr. Macrene proffers a mirror. My face is slightly pink, as if I’ve gone for a long run. Within two weeks, she tells me, I’ll see fewer wrinkles. The process is not cheap: Lasers start at $900 a shot, fillers at $650, but Alexiades maintains that they are an investment for down the road. “A patient I saw today has built her own collagen around the filler I’ve done, and those lines are not coming back,” she says. “Now she’s in maintenance mode.” For many of her patients in maintenance, she only sees them once or twice a year.