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Non-Invasive Lipolysis or Liposculpture?
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Cheek Hallows Got You Down? Sculptra Can Help!
If you’re in your late thirties or early forties and starting to notice that your cheeks aren’t as plumped up as they once were, you aren’t alone. Though facial fillers like Juvederm, Restylane, and Perlane are excellent for replacing lost volume to this area, the necessity of undergoing maintenance injections every 5-6 months is always something to consider. At Goldman, Butterwick, Fitzpatrick, Groff & Fabi Cosmetic Laser Dermatology in San Diego, our team of world-renowned dermatologists want our patients to know about one of the best non-invasive treatments for sunken cheeks—Sculptra!
What Is Sculptra?
The aging process brings volume loss and decreased collagen, which is why your face begins to show deeper hallows and wrinkles along the cheeks as well as other areas including the jowls, temples, and under eyes. To overcome this naturally and gradually, Sculptra Aesthetic, which is made of poly-L-lactic acid, works to restore and smooth your face by continuing to stimulate and regenerate collagen growth to the area treated. This means that the results from the filler treatment are extremely natural and subtle, continuing to show even several months after you’ve undergone treatment. Depending on the individual, multiple injections may be necessary over the course of the next few months for the most optimal outcomes.
FDA Warns Against Fake Botox
Over the course of the past several months, the Food and Drug Administration has issued written warnings to more than 350 medical practices across the country who could be at risk of distributing fake Botox after realizing the bogus product had infiltrated distribution in Canada. If an individual is injected with the fake product, they could face immense consequences due to potential contamination issues of the product as well as its use by inexperienced injectors.
In this blog, our team of expert dermatologists explain the importance of always making sure you choose FDA approved Botox to correct facial aging like wrinkles, fine lines, and crow’s feet.
All About Fat Grafting
When wrinkles and other signs of aging start to appear on our faces, one of the first two cosmetic treatments that might come to your mind to fix the problem is Botox or facial fillers like Juvederm, Restylane, and Perlane. However, our dermatologists want you to know about a treatment that can last up to twice as long (or longer) while helping to decrease the look of fine lines and folds occurring as a result of collagen loss—facial fat grafting!
What Is Fat Grafting?
Fat grafting works to correct volume loss on your face in the exact same way that facial fillers do. However, instead of using manufactured products, your own fat is taken from different areas of your body, most often the stomach via minimally invasive liposuction, and injected into the problematic sunken areas of your face.
Do You Have Fine Lines Or Deep Folds?
With aging comes a plethora of changes to our face and body, but understanding just what is affecting you is key to understanding the best ways to treat and diminish its presence. As we get into our 40’s and 50’s, it’s extremely common to notice lines, wrinkles, and crow’s feet on our faces—but do you know how to determine wrinkle from fold? In this blog, our expert team of world-renowned dermatologists and cosmetic surgeons in San Diego take the time to let our patients know about the best treatments for deep folds, fine lines, and everything in between.
Differences
Fine lines and deep folds on our faces are both different kinds of wrinkles, though their causes can be very different. Fine lines generally occur from a loss of collagen and fat as a part of the aging process. These types of wrinkles are generally superficial and occur on the top layers of our skin. Deep folds, however, often occur in individuals who are experiencing a great deal of excess skin, causing tissues on the face to sag. Deep folds can occur anywhere on the face and neck, though their appearance towards the lower face tend to be much more common.
Get Kissable Valentine’s Day Lips Year Round
With Valentine’s Day just behind us, our dermatologists want to let you in on a little known secret—fillers like Restylane and Juvederm can help make your lips more kissable than ever in just one office visit. If you’re dealing with lips that aren’t as full as they once were, we can help restore their youthful and full appearance year round, giving you kissable Valentine’s Day lips year round!
How Do Lip Fillers Work?
At our practice, our world-renowned dermatologists use dermal fillers like Restylane and Juvederm to restore volume to areas of the face that have gone through a loss over time. Using an extremely small needle to diminish any pain, our doctors inject the filler into the lips to bring a once natural and pouty appearance back to life. The injections itself only take a few minutes, and our dermatologists take every precaution possible to ensure that our patients see optimal outcomes. Because patients may experience very minor side effects like redness, swelling, or tenderness, it’s a great idea to schedule your appointment when you’ll have a couple of days to relax, allowing your lips to get back into tip top shape.
Prevention With Injections
Everybody knows that once we hit our 40’s and 50’s, we’re almost sure to begin showing more severe signs of aging like deep lines and wrinkles on our face and crow’s feet near our eyes. Though seeking treatment to combat the aging process after these tell-tale signs have appeared is still helpful and can provide you with youthful results, our dermatologists believe that taking preventative measures to rid our faces of wrinkles early on is one of the best ways to continue to see natural skin well into our later years.
At Goldman, Butterwick, Fitzpatrick, Groff, & Fabi Cosmetic Laser Dermatology in San Diego, we’d like to tell our patients about the best ways to keep your skin looking healthy and young with preventative injections and tips.
3 Steps To Younger Looking Hands
At Goldman, Butterwick, Fitzpatrick, Groff, & Fabi Cosmetic Laser Dermatology, achieving youthful hands has never been so easy! In just three easy treatments, our doctors have the ability to revive hands that have fallen victim to the aging process—without the need for surgery. Check out our list below of the best treatments for hand revitalizing!
Restoring Volume
As with all parts of our body, volume loss is a part of the aging process that is difficult to slow or overcome naturally. However, just as volume can be brought back to our face with the help of dermal fillers, our hands can also enjoy the benefits. The filler Radiesse offers continued benefit to our hands, as it works to not only immediately plump their appearance and diminish wrinkles, but also promotes natural collagen growth within our bodies, resulting in long lasting and voluminous hands. Though Radiesse is not permanent, patients often enjoy the benefits for a full year before finding it necessary to revisit their injector.
Big Beauty Myths Debunked
Too often, people believe too much of what they see or hear on the Internet, in magazines, or on television. Through doing a little bit of research and digging, our expert dermatologists in San Diego wanted to share with our readers some of the most popular beauty myths that are still extremely common today, and how they could actually be doing more harm than good.
Dry Skin Causes Wrinkles
Some people think that dry, cracked skin can lead to additional wrinkles on your face and body. In reality, dry skin has nothing to do with the amount of wrinkles seen on your face, as wrinkles, crow’s feet, and fine lines appear as a result of collagen loss. The best way to combat wrinkles is to apply face creams containing retinoids and SPF, as well as the use of Botox and facial fillers.
Secret Wrinkle Causing Habits
As we get older, we become more aware of wrinkles, fine lines, and crow’s feet that appear on our faces. Even more so, as the aging process continues, we also grow wiser as to how we can help stop their appearance with the use of wrinkle fighting creams, sunscreen, and even injectable treatments like facial fillers and Botox. However, did you know that you may be participating in wrinkle causing habits? At Goldman, Butterwick, Fitzpatrick, Groff, & Fabi Cosmetic Laser Dermatology, we want to let you in on a few little known practices that could be aging your face!
Sleeping
Out of all of the stresses in your life, we’re willing to bet you never realized that wrinkles could be forming on your face even while you sleep! Sleeping face down on our beds can actually lead to deep, unwanted sleep lines. Because our facial skin is very sensitive, it’s important to avoid sleeping positions that put any pressure on your face, as well as limiting the contact we have with patterned pillows and blankets that can leave impression-sleep patterns. People who may be struggling with wrinkles or fine lines as a result of sleeping often find relief in Botox, where facial wrinkles can be diminished nearly instantly.
Dermatologists Predict Top Procedures for 2013
It’s official—the new year is here, and at Goldman, Butterwick, Fitzpatrick, Groff, & Fabi Cosmetic Laser Dermatology, our doctors are already looking forward to helping patients achieve the best ‘you’ possible through advanced anti-aging treatments. With 2012 just behind us, our team of world-renowned cosmetic dermatologists want to shed light on what non-invasive procedures we think patients are going to seek most in 2013.
1. Ulthera
At GBFG&F Cosmetic Laser Dermatology in San Diego, our doctors believe that 2013 could very well be the year of Ulthera. This non-invasive skin tightening treatment has a plethora of benefits that patients love, including no down time, amazing results, and a natural ability to help rejuvenate and promote collagen growth. Ulthera is the perfect treatment to help a person overcome one of the initial signs of aging—losing elasticity on our skin. After your Ulthera treatment, results will continue to improve over the course of the following several weeks, and will eventually leave you with tighter, smoother, and firmer feeling skin.
