juvederm filler

JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel is the only Hyaluronic acid fillerthat is FDA approved to last up to 1 year.

What Is JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel?
As we age, our skin changes. Over time, the natural volume of youthful skin begins to diminish as wrinkles and folds form. But, with Juvéderm™ injectable gel, you don't have to just sit back and let it happen!
JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel is a smooth consistency gel made of hyaluronic acid—a naturally occurring substance in your skin that helps to add volume and hydration. JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel is injected under the skin to instantly restore your skin's volume and smooth away facial wrinkles and folds, like your “smile lines” or “parentheses” (nasolabial folds—the creases that run from the bottom of your nose to the corners of your mouth).
JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel provides a smooth, natural look and feel—so everyone will notice (but no one will know)! In fact, studies show superior results of JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel compared to a collagen-based dermal filler.†
JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel is the first FDA-approved hyaluronic acid dermal filler that is proven to be safe and effective.

How JUVÉDERM®Injectable Gel Works
JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel dermal filler is a nonsurgical treatment. JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel is injected under the skin using a fine needle to augment, or fill, the soft tissue of the dermis—the dense inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis—to add volume and diminish wrinkles and folds. JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel l is great for your "laugh lines," "smile lines" or "parentheses" (nasolabial folds), or "marionette lines" (oral commissures).
JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel is a "next-generation" filler. It is made from hyaluronic acid—a naturally occurring substance in your skin that helps to hydrate and add volume. Hyaluronic acid may diminish with age, contributing to the formation of wrinkles and folds. JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel works to correct this by restoring hyaluronic acid in your skin, helping to smooth wrinkles and folds

What to Expect During Treatment
Because JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel is a simple, nonsurgical wrinkle treatment, there is minimal recovery or downtime. So you can make an appointment to stop by the office for treatment on the way home from work or the gym. Here's what to expect when you visit for treatment.

Before you go: Avoid any medications that can prolong bleeding, such as aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs), for at least a week prior to treatment in order to reduce the risk of bruising and bleeding at the injection site. (Tylenol is okay).
When you arrive: If this is your first visit, Dr. will ask about your medical history, including any allergies you may have or medications you may take, and will tell you more about wrinkle treatment with JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel . An allergy test is not required.

Determining your treatment needs: Dr. will examine the soft tissue of your face to assess the depth of wrinkles and folds to determine your treatment. JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel is available in two formulations—Juvéderm™ Ultra for versatility in contouring and volumizing facial wrinkles and folds, and Juvéderm™ Ultra Plus, a robust formulation for volumizing and correcting deeper folds and wrinkles.

Before the procedure: Dr. will use topical and/or injectable anesthesia to numb the treatment area first.
The procedure: Dr. will ease the JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel under your skin to augment, or fill, wrinkles and folds. Following the injection, he may gently massage the treated areas. The procedure is quick and easy. The injection itself usually takes only about 15 minutes.
After the procedure: With JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel , there is minimal recovery or downtime.

For the first 24 hours following treatment, you should avoid strenuous exercise, excessive sun or heat exposure, and consumption of alcoholic beverages in order to help minimize the risks of temporary redness, swelling, and/or itching at the treatment sites. After the treatment, some temporary injection-related reactions may occur, including redness, pain, firmness, swelling, and bumps. Studies have shown that these are usually mild to moderate in nature and clear up on their own in 7 days or less. If you experience swelling at the injection site, you can apply an ice pack for a brief period.

Seeing results: You should see an immediate improvement in the treatment areas. Most patients need one treatment to achieve optimal wrinkle smoothing. And one treatment could smooth your lines and wrinkles for up to 1 year! However, results may vary and correction is temporary. Supplemental “touch up” treatments may be required to achieve and maintain optimal results.

body contouring

Body Contouring:
Contouring of the abdomen, arms, back, legs and total body can be obtained with mesotherapy. Lipodissolve agents are used to remove areas of fat by block the internal signal of fat uptake, trigger fat release inprove circulation, and burn energy, while vitamins and amino acids are used to tighten sagging skin, restore a more youthful and athletic appearance.
Many patients develop unevenness, divots, or lumps after undergoing liposuction. These areas can be successfully treated with Mesotherapy. The scar tissue that forms under the skin after liposuction is directly targeted and dissolved. Patients see and feel smoothing of divots and lumps, and the unevenness resolves.
Cellulite Reduction:The medical term of cellulite is "dermatomyoliposclerosis". Cellulite affects the majority of women over the 20. It is caused by poor circulation, fat herniation weakening of connective tissue, lymphatic congestion, and hormonal imbalance. Cellulite is not a disease of over weight. It appears in the subcutaneous level of skin tissue. Fat cells are arranged in chambers surrounded by connective tissue called sepatae. As water retained, fat cells held within the perimeters of this area expand and stretch the connective tissue. Eventually this connective tissue contracts and hardens (scelerosis) holding the skin at a non-flexible length, while the surrounding tissue continues to expand with weight or water gain. This result in areas of the skin being held down while other sections bulge outward, resulting in lumpy, orange peel appearance. It can be divided into 4 clinical stages:-
-Stage 0:- no visible cellulite, even when skin pricked or compress
-Stage 1:- no visible cellulite when standing or lying down, however present when skin is pricked or compressed.
-Stage 2:- visible cellulite when standing, but not appear when lying down
-Satage3:- visible all time.
Mesotherapy treatment is targeted to correct these problems by improving circulation, strengthening, connective tissues, remove fibro tic & hardening connective tissue, improve lymphatic drainage, and dissolve excess fat.
Hair Restoration :-Hair loss affects both affects both men and women. I6t’s resulted from poor circulation, nutritional imbalances and in men the excess of a hormone known as DHT (dihydrotestosterone) Mesotherapy can correct these problems, by stimulating scalp to naturally grow the lost hair.
Face and neck rejuvenation / mesolift:-
Aging, sagging and wrinkling of the skin occurs from accumulation of fat, loss or skin elasticity, and excessive free radical damage. Infusing potent antioxidants and amino acids by mesotherapy into dermis at level of contact with cellular matrix can reverse free radical damage, and tightening the loose skin. It can rejuvenate and revitalize the skin of face and neck without the unnatural appearance and downtime recovery period.
People who have had a "Mesolift" describe their skin as firm, radiant, youthful and glowing. The Mesolift is usually performed in an initial series of 2-4 treatments spaced a week apart. Results are maintained by twice a year touch up sessions.
Mesotherapy skin rejuvenation is a wonderful compliment to any of the other skin treatments we offer including, photo rejuvenation, chemical peels, BOTOX® and dermal fillers. But it also stands on it’s own as a powerful anti-aging therapy.
Facial Pigmentation:Facial pigmentation like Melasma ,post inflammatory pigmentation(following aggressive treatment with chemical and Lasers),Black discoloration around eyes and pigmentation due to sun damage can be effectively controlled by using specific mesotherapy solutions. The effect of these medicines is virtually dramatic.
Eye Bags:For the problem of buldging fat under the eyes Mesotherapy provides a very effective to surgical treatment called Blepharoplasty.
Double Chin:Infection lipolysis by mesotherapy using different fat dissolve solution treayts double chin effectively.The results are very quick in these cases since area to be treated is small.The combination of medicaments to tighten the skin together witgh lipolysis agent further compliments the treatment.

What is the treatment protocol?For cellulite, weight loss, and spot weight reduction, the medications are injected directly to the areas being treated. Treatments are administered weekly, and patients usually begin seeing results by the fourth treatment. After 10 treatments, patients see a significant decrease in size, improved skin tone, and smoothing of cellulite. Typically patients lose 4 to 10 inches in 10 weeks.
For facial rejuvenation weekly injections are given and usually 4-5 treatment sare sufficient to get the desired results.

chemical peels in acne

Peels in acne

Chemical peels using either alpha-hydroxy acid or beta-hydroxy acid are both highly effective in treating mild to moderately severe facial acne, researchers at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine have found the first study to compare the two different types of acid peels as therapies for the skin disorder.
Peels using beta-hydroxy acid (or BHA) had slightly fewer side effects and results that lasted a bit longer than did peels using alpha-hydroxy acid (or AHA), the study found. But overall, both types of treatments were similarly effective in reducing lesions caused by acne vulgaris, which affects some 85 percent of all people 12 to 24 years old.
AHA (which is also called glycolic acid) and BHA (also called salicylic acid) are frequently used by physicians to induce light skin peels, which help treat fine lines and wrinkles, acne and uneven texture and coloration. The peel removes a very thin layer of skin, which in turn promotes the growth of new, smoother skin.
Both types of acid are derived from organic compounds. AHA has the same active ingredient that's found in sugar cane juice, sour milk and tomato juice, while BHA is derived from salicin, which is closely related to the active ingredient in aspirin.
The study involved 20 patients with moderate to severe facial acne. Their average age was 24 years; 13 were women. Each was treated with a chemical peel every other week for six weeks, with follow-up visits one month and two months after the last treatment.
Each treatment involved applying alpha-hydroxy acid to one side of the face and beta-hydroxy acid to the other side. Neither the patient nor the person who later evaluated them were aware which side of the face had been treated with which acid.
The study found that both types of chemical peels significantly reduced acne lesions within two weeks of the first treatment, and patients continued to see a reduction in lesions through the first follow-up visit a month after the treatments had finished.
At the time of that first post-treatment visit, 94 percent of patients were judged to have had good or fair improvement in acne lesions on both sides of the face, as assessed by a blinded evaluator.
A month later, at the second post-treatment visit, 81 percent of the sides of the face treated with beta-hydroxy acid still showed good or fair improvement in acne lesions, compared with 75 percent of the sides of the face treated with alpha-hydroxy acid. However, the sides of the face treated with alpha-hydroxy acid had developed a few new lesions though this was judged not to be significant.
In general, both types of acid peels yielded the same side effects, which typically decreased over the course of the treatments. The most common of these included redness, peeling and scaling though with alpha-hydroxy acid, the degree of the peeling and scaling was judged to be greater.