What happens to the skin with aging and why?
To answer the “why,” it’s easiest to think of the skin as a product of the underlying cells. If the cells are healthy, the skin will be healthy. These cells are affected by the numerous hazards of life: ultraviolet light of the sun, smoking, a poor diet, and general poor life habits.
MINI -FACELIFT WITHOUT SURGEY
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As more people are choosing the needle over the scalpel for facial rejuvenation, “Fillers” are reshaping faces as well as ideas about beauty at every age.
Over the past several years, much has happened in the field of “injectables.” Various materials are now being injected into the face by doctors to produce a rejuvenating ...
Continue Reading →Down in the Mouth
Have you heard the expression, “Down in the mouth?” Do people ever come up to you and ask, “Why do you look sad?” Even though you may have felt perfectly content, when people keep asking if you’re sad or angry, it could leave you feeling… well, sad or angry.
For many people, they can’t help projecting a sad or angry appearance, even when they’re not feeling this ...
Continue Reading →What is Medical Micro-Needling?
For skin micro-needling, we use an electric skin needling device made especially for this purpose. The device is a pen shaped studded with 12 very fine needles. It is a medical device used in micro needling to break down old scar tissue and to stimulate skin cells to proliferate. This cell multiplication results in the formation of new tissue layers of elastin and collagen fibers as well as in new capillaries for an improved ...
Continue Reading →Dermaplane is a safe, non-invasive treatment which uses a special tool at a forty-five degree angle and stroked along the skin, while holding the skin taut to remove “peach fuzz”, as well as dead skin cells. Dermaplane is performed as a stand alone treatment or prior to other skincare treatments to enhance their effectives .This is a wonderful form of exfoliation that can be used with or without chemicals. This treatment does not require downtime and will ...
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The “Natural” Facelift
A “Natural” facelift is what it implies–there are none of the unwanted tell-tale signs of a facelift. What are the signs:
The use of fillers has sky-rocketed in popularity–because they work. But we continue to attempt to reduce discomfort, swelling, and bruising.
Typically, when injecting fillers or Botox, we will use a topical anesthetic cream and ice to reduce any discomfort.
With fillers, we suggest the use of Arnica Montana, commonly called Arnica, sublingual tablets and a topical Arnica cream to diminish bruising and swelling, and it helps.
We also suggest to patients that they eliminate supplements and foods that prolong ...
Continue Reading →Facial fillers are for fine wrinkles and to re-volumize the lost fat, muscle and bone in the face. This loss results in facial sagging due to loss of support making one look older.
Typically the most common fillers are: Juvederm, Restylane, Perlane, Radiesse, Artefill and Sculptra. Juvederm and Restylane are hyaluronic acid products and are therefore reversible with injection of an enzyme, if the need arises. The others are not reversible.
Juvederm comes as plain Juvederm, Ultra and Ultra ...
Continue Reading →Patients ask me this question all the time. While there’s no pat answer, because each patient’s case is different, here’s some overall rules of thumb.
Facial volume loss: one of the reasons you look older
First, think about what happens when you age. Everyone knows that we lose elasticity as we get older and skin sags, but few realize another primary cause of looking older: facial volume loss. Inevitably, our faces deflate – less so, if we’re considerably overweight. ...
Continue Reading →The causes of faces looking older and saggier as we age are loss of elasticity and loss of volume. Loss of elasticity will occur with time regardless of what we do, but we can drastically increase this loss with excess ultraviolet rays from the sun and smoking. Loss of volume may be more influential in the appearance of our aging process than loss of elasticity.
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