Category: Fillers
Glowing Beautiful Skin – The Lipodissolve Clinic Blog
One often hears how healthy someone looks. What prompts people to say that someone looks healthy?
Most often, it is subtle cues such as texture of skin, even skin tone with a mild glow and bright eyes. Many of these features are interpreted unconsciously to be equivalent with health, vigor and youth.
Proper skin care and true health promote this glow and great skin texture.
poor nutrition with lack of exercise can take away from good skin tone and glow.
Many patients walk in to my Chicago area office complaining of dull looking skin and poor skin texture. In addition to possible fillers, many are in need of nutrients on and in their skin
A great skin nutrient delivery system are micro-dermal needles. This creates deep penetration of nutrients and a wonderful response of increased blood and therefore oxygen to the skin, bathing the firbroblasts in nutrients and improving the skin texture.
How do you know if you are getting all the nutrients you need? How do you know if you are absorbing all the nutrients you take in?
The gold standard is an intracellular level of vitamins, minerals, co-factors and anti-oxidants. This can be performed from a blood test. If Levels are low but you believe yourself to be obtaining ample amounts, digestive issues can be at play.
Beauty is not only skin deep, health factors into looks and how someone fells about them self. Next time you’re thinking of going to a botox factory clinic, think again and come to a clinic where you health and beauty needs are met inside and out.
Non Surgical Face Lifts – The Lipodissolve Clinic Blog
As we age, we lose volume in key areas. For the purpose of this blog article, I will be writing only about facial aging and changes.
Many patients show up to my Chicago area office complaining about smile lines (wrinkles from their nose to their mouth) and about their marionette lines. Women tend to suffer from Marionette lines sooner than men.
For both men and women, cheek fat pads fall as we age. This exacerbates the smile lines
as well as the marionette lines. A simple remedy has been to inject fillers such as Restylane or Juvederm to fill these lines. However, as the area around the upper lip or below the lower lip requires more product the face begins to get distorted.
A better way to deal with these issues is to inject either sculptra or Radiesse deep into the cheek area in order to encourage collagen production and fullness. This ultimately lifts the cheeks reducing both the smile and the marionette lines. This is a better procedure for patients with more than just a hint of lines.
The procedure can be carried out with topical anaesthetic applied first and with some numbing medication mixed into the solution. The procedure is very tolerable and there is no down time. There can be bruising and minimal swelling which can be reduced with icing the area post treatment.
Next time you look into the mirror and start lifting parts of your face to look like you did, pick up the phone and give my office a call.
Why Winter is the Best TIme For an Aesthetic Treatment – The Lipodissolve Clinic Blog
Many patients rush into my Chicago area office for procedures like photofacial and lipodissolve once the weather gets nice. They realize they’re going to be showing more skin and want that skin to be smooth and beautiful.
In reality, the best time for treatments is the middle of winter when it’s easy to either hide areas that are swollen as after a lipodissolve treatment, or avoid the sun on skin that has been treated with photofacial.
I have numerous patients that are sculpting their thighs or arms and winter makes it easy to hide them for the few days they are swollen. Saddle bags and muffin tops are easy to erase but there are a few days of swelling and it’s best to wear lose fitting clothes or a long sweater those first days of recovery.
As well, many patients come to me in order to rid themselves of those dark sun spots on their face, neck and arms. It is best to treat when the patient is neither tan nor tanning. In addition, the spots appear darker for the first few days after treatment.
It’s only natural to think about taking care of bothersome issues when they become obvious, but planning ahead and resolving these issues before they are obvious is a smarter choice.
If you are thinking about any procedure including fillers and botox, it’s smart to plan ahead. it can often take two whole weeks for filler or botox to settle in. In addition, procedures where we are promoting collagen production takes two to three weeks. Radiesse, a calcium based filler, promotes collagen growth and is often used on the lateral cheek area to promote fuller cheeks which in turn lessen the folds around the nose and mouth. But, this takes about two weeks to see its’ full effects.
If you are thinking of having any of these non-surgical procedures, make an appointment for a consultation. In my office, these consults are free for patients and planning a schedule in time for an event such as a wedding or a reunion is common.
Planning ahead is always best and winter can be the perfect time to get started on the road to a better looking you in the spring.
The Down Side of Permanent or Almost Permanent Fillers – The Lipodissolve Clinic Blog
Be careful what you wish for.
I’ve had more than a few patients walk in my Chicago area office with silicone filled lips or problematic bumps on their face from Sculptra that were unhappy with their outcome but could not do anything about it.
One of the unhappy patients had silicone enhanced lips and had never even had a temporary filler prior to the silicone. This, I believe is absurd, as it is always helpful for a patient to see how they will look like prior to a permanent change. Her doctor suggested a permanent implant the first time she asked for lip enhancement. This is a doctor to run from. The patient turned out looking like a pair of walking lips. She can have the implants removed, but this is not a simple procedure like injecting hyaluronidase into an area that was over filled.
While a patient might look good and be happy with a permanent implant down the road, one should always recommend trying the look temporarily at first to make sure it works.
Sculptra and some of the other fillers that stimulate lots of collagen production deep in the dermis, can achieve phenomenal results, they can also create lumps and bumps that are often visible. Even in the hands of a skilled doctor, there is a risk.
Sculptra seems to be the best for HIV related facial lipodystrophy. These patients have lost so much volume in their faces that they really can’t look over filled compared to how abnormal they looked prior.
The over filled look, or even filling to perfection, can often look obviously abnormal. The planes of the face can become distorted. So if you think you want to fill to perfection, do it at first with a short acting filler. If you don’t love the look, it will be gone in few months. If you love the look, repeat it the next time with a longer acting filler. Just remember, it is normal to have some amount of smile lines starting in your twenties. Smile lines can actually add more dimension to your face which is usually more visually appealing and interesting.
What Fillers And Botox Can’t do – The Lipodissolve Clinic Blog
Many prospective patients come to my Chicago area clinic asking for botox and fillers in the hope that their skin will look younger. The truth is that botox and filler can make a huge difference but not in enhancing the look of one’s skin.
As we age, our skin becomes less reflective to light due to enlargement of pores and hyper-pigmentation in the deeper layers of skin. Both of these events happen secondary to damage. The abnormal pigmentation can be either red or brown.
I have found that the best way to brighten up the skin is to use intense pulsed light or IPL, and bipolar radio frequency (ELOS technology). I can get very good results using LED light, facial ultrasound and mesotherapy but it would take more treatments to get the same results as compared with ELOS technology. Occasionally, I might choose to use one of the other technologies if I need to achieve a specific goal.
There are many med spas offering “fotofacial” but only ELOS technology is “fotofacial”. The other machines or lasers are not IPL coupled with bipolar radio frequency and therefore are either uncomfortable or not as potent.
While filler and botox are temporary, facial rejuvenation is not. Once the damage is removed and the pore size corrected, this is permanent until the skin might get damaged again. I always council my patients on what supplements to take and what to avoid on the skin in order to protect it in the future.
