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Treatment pricing
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If eyes are the window to your soul, then skin is the window into your age. Wrinkles are ridges, folds or creases in the skin that appear as people get older. Collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid combine to create a soft, healthy foundation for your skin, with collagen acting as the backbone of skin's underlying structural support. Unfortunately production of collagen starts to decline at about age 25, and decreases even further in women after menopause. Losing collagen means losing flexibility, with skin becoming more fragile and less elastic, causing creases to become permanent wrinkles.
Wrinkles are most prominent on sun-exposed skin, such as the face, neck, hands and forearms especially in people with light skin. There are certain environmental factors that promote skin wrinkling such as smoking, pollution and chronic sun exposure. Additionally, repeated facial expressions including squinting or smiling lead to fine lines and wrinkles.
Today there are a wealth of new injectable products available that are capable of filling wrinkles and creases and even reshaping chins and cheeks. Dermal fillers address volume loss, while botox relaxes the muscles that form wrinkles. CO2 resurfacing laser is also a key factor to minimizing fine lines and restoring a youthful glow.
Treatment
Many modalities are available for the treatment of facial wrinkles, especially around the eyes, like topical tretinoin creams, medical grade chemical peels, botulinum toxin, collagen filler, and laser resurfacing.
Dermal Fillers
Dermal fillers are temporary to long-lasting solutions injected beneath a wrinkle, crease, or area with volume loss to “fill” in the space, providing instant volume and fullness. The substance injected is made up of collagen, hyaluronic acid or calcium hydroxyapetite. It rejuvenates skin by replacing lost volume in creases and folds in the face which occurs with age. The effect is instant rejuvenation in just minutes with no pain.
Neurotoxins
All neurotoxins aim to essentially stop wrinkles in their tracks. Regardless of the neurotoxin used, whether Botox or Dysport the toxin works by relaxing the muscle and inhibits it from contracting, essentially causing it to be fully or partially paralyzed. The result is smoother expression lines. Botox/Dysport make it possible to smooth the face without surgery. The treatments are fast and easy, and take only minutes to perform. To maintain results, it is necessary to return for regular treatments, typically about every 3 months.
CO2 Laser Resurfacing
Carbon dioxide laser reduces the appearance of wrinkles by 45%, lasting more than two years after treatment. It addresses considerable aging effects and removes an impressive 10 to 15 years of sun damage and weathering from the face. Beside wrinkles and pigmentary changes of aging skin, the CO2 laser has been found to be useful to treat all types of scars namely, atrophic, hypertrophic, scars of varicella, etc. The laser affords a level of precision, control and accuracy that is not available by other methods.
Chemical Peels
Working in minutes, chemical peels are able to lift away dead cells sitting at the surface of the skin. This communicates to the cells below to multiply and move up, thereby increasing collagen production and prompting your skin to increase its own hyaluronic acid production. This allows skin care products to perform better by reaching deeper layers of the skin since there are no dead cells blocking their penetration or ability to become absorbed. The immediate result is smoother skin that is more radiant and youthful. Chemical peels are quick, low risk, produce immediate results and are safe to use on any skin color.
Wrinkles are most prominent on sun-exposed skin, such as the face, neck, hands and forearms especially in people with light skin. There are certain environmental factors that promote skin wrinkling such as smoking, pollution and chronic sun exposure. Additionally, repeated facial expressions including squinting or smiling lead to fine lines and wrinkles.
Today there are a wealth of new injectable products available that are capable of filling wrinkles and creases and even reshaping chins and cheeks. Dermal fillers address volume loss, while botox relaxes the muscles that form wrinkles. CO2 resurfacing laser is also a key factor to minimizing fine lines and restoring a youthful glow.
Treatment
Many modalities are available for the treatment of facial wrinkles, especially around the eyes, like topical tretinoin creams, medical grade chemical peels, botulinum toxin, collagen filler, and laser resurfacing.
Dermal Fillers
Dermal fillers are temporary to long-lasting solutions injected beneath a wrinkle, crease, or area with volume loss to “fill” in the space, providing instant volume and fullness. The substance injected is made up of collagen, hyaluronic acid or calcium hydroxyapetite. It rejuvenates skin by replacing lost volume in creases and folds in the face which occurs with age. The effect is instant rejuvenation in just minutes with no pain.
Neurotoxins
All neurotoxins aim to essentially stop wrinkles in their tracks. Regardless of the neurotoxin used, whether Botox or Dysport the toxin works by relaxing the muscle and inhibits it from contracting, essentially causing it to be fully or partially paralyzed. The result is smoother expression lines. Botox/Dysport make it possible to smooth the face without surgery. The treatments are fast and easy, and take only minutes to perform. To maintain results, it is necessary to return for regular treatments, typically about every 3 months.
CO2 Laser Resurfacing
Carbon dioxide laser reduces the appearance of wrinkles by 45%, lasting more than two years after treatment. It addresses considerable aging effects and removes an impressive 10 to 15 years of sun damage and weathering from the face. Beside wrinkles and pigmentary changes of aging skin, the CO2 laser has been found to be useful to treat all types of scars namely, atrophic, hypertrophic, scars of varicella, etc. The laser affords a level of precision, control and accuracy that is not available by other methods.
Chemical Peels
Working in minutes, chemical peels are able to lift away dead cells sitting at the surface of the skin. This communicates to the cells below to multiply and move up, thereby increasing collagen production and prompting your skin to increase its own hyaluronic acid production. This allows skin care products to perform better by reaching deeper layers of the skin since there are no dead cells blocking their penetration or ability to become absorbed. The immediate result is smoother skin that is more radiant and youthful. Chemical peels are quick, low risk, produce immediate results and are safe to use on any skin color.
