Better Pillow
The Better Pillow is designed to minimise compression and deformation of the facial skin tissues during sleep.
Support is provided in two crucial areas by means of thick upper bar and thinner bar to support the jaw-line, thereby eliminating the forces that are normally exerted on the area around the cheek and eye. Good skin elasticity can keep your face wrinkle free for longer.
Product Overview
- The Better Pillow provides a comfortable sleep while at the same time reducing your ageing process. It is designed to minimize compression and deformation of the facial skin tissues, which cause wrinkles, during sleep. It also provides excellent support for the neck and back and can alleviate pain created from poor sleeping posture.
Advantages
- Better Sleep:This unique pillow enables you to sleep more comfortably either on your side or your back while your vertebrae remains supported.
- The better pillow enhances the level of deep sleep and improves nasasl airflow.
- For better sleeping results ensure a regular exercise routine.
- Designed by a leading South African plastic Surgeon.
Product Description
Gravity is generally blamed for the sagging tissues that accompany ageing. We dispute that! Another misrepresentation is that the muscles of the face become weak, elongated and sag. I believe this is not an accurate representation of what really happens. In fact the skin and muscles have been stretched by a force arising laterally and directed towards the chin, the mouth and the nose. This distorting force stretching the skin and muscles is the real cause for the prolapse, not gravity.
If we look analytically at an old face and imagine the vectors of the forces acting on the face, then we can see that the direction of stress is from upper lateral down towards the media inferior part of the face. This vector is about 45° different from the expected vector for gravity. First of all the lateral part of the eyebrow is pushed downwards. The tissues sag towards the nose and the fat that normally covers the inferior and infero-lateral margin of the orbital socket are squeezed towards the nasal labial fold and as a result the “tear-trough” becomes exaggerated. As a result of the descent of the cheek-fat, the fat cushioning the orbit becomes noticeable and appears to bulge. In fact, in most cases, there isn’t any excess of fat, only a greater exposure of the fat.
I think that it is fair to assume that in younger people there are tethering fibres holding the cheek fat higher up on to the orbital septum and the inferior orbital margin. These fibres get stretched and may snap or may simply be elongated. Whatever the cause, the fat can then descend lower into the cheek to the nasal labial fold where the skin of the lip is more firmly attached to the muscular layer and as a result a deep nasal labial crease can develop.
