Artefill is filler that is an excellent volumizer as well as wrinkle filler. Advantages are the duration of several years, plus, it is a soft filler, meaning it feels like your own tissue. The treatment takes about 30 minutes, and using the DermaSculpt® soft tip needles the bruising is minimal to none. Photos represent a [...]
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Artefill® for Rejuvenation of the Face
November 28th, 2011How long does Sculptra last?
November 28th, 2011I have been injecting Sculpta since 2004, and it is one of my favorite products for re-volumizing the face. However, I find that most people in their 60′s and older do not create collagen as well as younger people, and the collagen doesn’t last as long. Their studies are for 25 months and it apparently [...]
BOTOX® + fillers = Non-Surgical Liquid Facelift
November 23rd, 2011Your face changes as you age: collagen and elastin diminishes over time and skin becomes less toned, less elastic, thinner, and begins to show signs of aging like wrinkles, creases, age spots, and shows various shadows from loss of volume, which causes sagging. The once plump youthful cheeks lose their volume, and they drop to [...]
What should I do: get a facelift, fillers, or both?
October 30th, 2011Patients 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 [...]
Injecting the Lips with the DermaSculpt® Microcannula
September 7th, 2011Common sense tells us that injecting anywhere with any needle can cause bleeding and therefore bruising. Especially when an injection is for cosmetic purposes, this is not a welcomed side effect. Most often people want to come in and get injected and go right back to work, and they do not want to have to [...]
Sculptra Aesthetics: Why can’t any doctor purchase or inject it?
December 6th, 2010Sculptra Aesthetics is different than others injectables. It is not a filler, such as the hyaluronic acid fillers, for isolated wrinkles. Many of these fillers are used primarily for the smile lines, called the nasolabial creases, or the marionette lines below the corners of the mouth. Sculptra changes the shape of the face back to [...]
Stages of the Aging Face
September 14th, 2010The causes of faces looking older and saggier as we age are: Loss of elasticity 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. These are the two most influential factors within our [...]
Sagging After a Face Lift
September 10th, 2010Typically, face lifts look great at about the third month. The swelling of the face from the surgery, however, adds to this great appearance. At a year or so, the swelling has subsided, and even though the patient may have an excellent result, the loss of volume from the swelling adds years to the patient’s [...]
How to Choose a Doctor for Your Non-Surgical Injectables
August 30th, 2010Virtually any doctor (or dentist) or assistant are allowed to inject Botox, Dysport, and all of the HA’s (Hyaluronic Acids, such as Juvederm, Restylane, Perlane, etc). There are only two products currently that are only allowed to be used by Dermatologists and Plastic Surgeons and these are, Sculptra and Artefill. Before using these two products [...]
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