Requiring only one or two 30 minute treatments, providers at Atlanta Plastic Surgery, P.C. and their doctor-owned AYA Medical Spa use Ulthera® to heat the deeper layers of dermal tissue and increase collagen production: a process naturally slowed by age. The increased collagen produces tighter, younger looking skin that reveals itself over two to three months following the initial treatment. Most Ultheara® patients only require one treatment for noticeable rejuvenation results.

Board certified in both Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and ENT/ Head and Neck Surgery with a special interest in facial cosmetic surgery, Dr. Fernando Burstein explains the new technology’s appeal, “Ulthera® is ideal for those patients who aren’t prepared for the downtime or cost associated with Atlanta facial procedures like traditional, surgical full facelift, browlift, or necklift, but need more rejuvenation than lighter treatments like Botox® or Juvéderm® are able to offer.”

“Ulthera® is indicated by the FDA for non-surgical brow lift; it’s a medical-grade treatment that allows providers to see into the deeper layers of skin during treatment to ensure rejuvenation results in those areas that truly need them- treating the root of the cosmetic problem,” says AYA Medical Spa Manager, Jessica Chaney.

As one of the Southeast’s most trusted and established plastic and reconstructive surgery practices, Atlanta Plastic Surgery, P.C. knows the medical value of non-surgical, medically sound technologies like Ulthera®. The practice has added three non-invasive skin treatment options to their menu just this year including Ulthera® skin tightening, CoolSculpting® fat reduction, and eMatrix™ skin resurfacing.

Know Your Goals

A surgeon sensitive to individual goals knows how to use his experience to help patients look rejuvenated, but still like themselves. The San Diego plastic surgeons at the La Jolla Cosmetic Surgery Centre therefore spend time with each patient to discuss options and develop a plan to achieve the most natural results.

Our surgeons examine physical factors, consider your skin’s condition, and discuss expectations well before surgery. Your bone structure provides a guide for the lines of your facial work. Your underlying tissue is another factor that influences the surgeon to recommend techniques that will best serve you. Age also plays a role, as aging skin responds differently than younger, more elastic skin. Only after a thorough examination do board certified plastic surgeons performing San Diego facelifts determine how to proceed with facial cosmetic surgery.

Facial Surgery for Men

Men choosing facial plastic surgery need to choose surgeons who are experienced in male facial procedures. Men’s faces require a different, more masculine approach, and your physician needs to recognize these important differences. First, the surgeon must consider your facial hair pattern. In addition, the adipose (or fatty) tissue that lies underneath the skin is tougher and more fibrous in men, requiring more rigorous techniques. Liposuction on the neck requires a keen sense of balance to produce satisfactory results. A San Diego facelift specialist experienced in male cosmetic surgery understands these differences and makes the appropriate procedural adjustments.

Choose Experience

Reputable plastic surgeons also listen to your goals and recommend procedures consistent with your timeframe and budget. Choosing a qualified, experienced surgeon increases your chances of receiving a facelift, eye lift, or brow lift that achieves your goals. Board certified San Diego plastic surgeons undergo rigorous training and follow a strict code of standards that governs both their certification and the accredited facilities in which they operate. A surgeon’s level of experience with male and female procedures, as well as skill in attaining a patient’s expectations, make all the difference.

Tan Hui-Linn’s life that was once full of hopes shattered on Oct. 24, 2009, the date when her horrific incident occurred. Her father, who suffered from mental illnesses, poured hydrochloric acid on her sleeping mother and leaving her dead. Tan Hui-Linn, who was sleeping beside her mother, lost one of her eyes and received severe burns across her body, which also left her face unrecognizable. Although her emotional wounds have healed up for the past two years, she still receives enormous stress from her lost face with the stares of people.

On top of running fund-raising campaigns in Malaysia to help Hui-Linn, YB Jeff Ooi, the senator of her village, searched for advanced institutions that could recover her lost face.

As luck would have it, the senator came across the Korean JK Center’s “New Face New Dream” charity project. After several video meetings and reviews of her medical records, this Korean medical center decided to treat Hui-Linn.

Hui-Linn, arrived in Seoul on Dec. 13 and was scheduled to stay until January 2012. Then, Tan Hui-Linn will receive medical treatment surrounding her eyebrows, eyes, chin, and the bottom lip with additional treatment to be proceeded. The airfare and costs for the sojourn will be paid by the funds raised in Malaysia while the JK Center will give the surgeries pro bono. The Korean Government’s Medical Korea project will finance her nursing fee and tourism cost.

Medical Korea, the nation’s medical brand, was launched its medical charity program in 2010 to share Korea’s success and know-how in the medical industry and to enhance its advanced medical technology.

Lindh’s answer is the 6H facelift, a treatment she calls “plastic surgery in a bottle”, and one which yield instant benefits. Unlike a 6 hour facelift where patients have to be sedated, the non-invasive process takes just minutes and uses a natural skin solution, whose ingredients are proven to tighten and visibly lift sagging skin, while smoothing creases and wrinkles. The 6H Face Lift also contains vitamins and amino acids, which rehydrates skin, giving it a supple, smooth and more youthful appearance. Clients can expect to see a reduction in the depth of wrinkles and an overall more uniform look.

For at-home care, Lindh recommends routine skin maintenance to extend the benefits of professional treatments. On her list of at-home to-dos is the practice of exfoliating facial skin on a regular basis to eliminate dead skin cells. The enzymes contained within exfoliating scrubs digest the dead skin cells, increase micro circulation and restore natural skin balance. Lindh recommends weekly exfoliation to open pores and minimize blackheads.

Lindh also touts 5-minute a day routine facial exercises as part of a skin maintenance plan. Facial expression exercises target a specific area, such as the mouth or eyes, and through a push/pull process are used to increase blood flow and stimulate circulation, thereby allowing more oxygen to reach the skin. By strengthen the facial muscles, facial workouts can help to minimize deep expression lines, create the appearance of higher cheekbones and tone neck wrinkles, which are some of the most neglected.

“Age ain’t nothing but a number” is a saying we all like to embrace, but age is a lot more than that. Age affects everything, including how firmly your skin fits.

Face lifts have been de rigueur for decades for tightening and lifting. No doubt about it, surgery works, but what are the options for those who aren’t all that interested in going under the knife?

Rebecca Fitzgerald MD Dermatology, one of Los Angeles’ top cosmetic dermatology practices, has embraced the technologies which have the capability to re-contour aging skin – which include both injectables and heat-based collagen impact.

Currently, the nonsurgical choices include infrared heat, radio frequency and now, ultrasound. Since skin tightening depends on how tissue responds to heat, all choices deliver heat with potential for affecting existing collagen and promoting new collagen production. (New collagen is tighter, somewhat like a coiled spring, and this tighter collagen hugs the support structure more closely, providing the firming effects.)

The difference in each technology is, to a great degree, how deeply the heat penetrates and how efficiently it bypasses surface skin. The deeper the heat, and the more precisely delivered, the better the results. This precise deep heat delivery is why we’ve brought Ultherapy to our office.

Ultherapy has FDA clearance for lifting, which is unique among the other technologies previously cleared for firming only. How does Ultherapy “lift”?

First it’s useful to explain how surgical facelifts achieve lift.

Facelifts tighten the SMAS, which is a deep tissue layer composed of multiple fibrous extensions that extend through the fat to the sub dermal /dermal levels of the skin, and these connections cause the three layers of the facial skin to “move together” as a unit. When a surgeon manipulates the SMAS, the lift is long term.

To date, ultrasound – which is the basis of Ultherapy, is the only heat delivery technology which can safely reach the SMAS level and does not damage superficial skin. Deeper delivery means tightening on multiple levels.

By specific methods of delivering the ultrasound-created heat in a very specific pattern at different depths, combined with the visual accuracy which the technician can determine by viewing a live treatment screen, we’re able to create a customizable effect with heat delivered to the most effective depths. The end results provide both lift and tightening.

Is Ultherapy comparable to surgery? Since there is no actual cutting or removal of excess tissue, no nonsurgical technology mimics surgical facelifts, but Ultherapy is, to date, one of the more promising alternatives for those who don’t want the risks, costs or recovery of surgery.

A common question is, “If I get a facelift now, will I need another one in the future?” The answer depends on you. Your age, the condition of your skin, and the type of facelift procedure are all factors. The most important determinant, however, is personal choice: Do you want to keep turning back your aging clock or let it continue forward?

Getting a facelift or mini-facelift when you’re younger — under 50 — will provide more subtle results. Younger skin has more elasticity, and your skin will spring back better after a procedure. An early lift will make it appear as though you’ve simply stopped the aging process rather than reversed it.

The effects of the facelift are permanent, but you will continue to age. If you choose facial rejuvenation when you’re younger, you may want an “adjustment” in 10 to 15 years, to tighten your neck and facial skin again.

If you’re older when you get your first facelift (or have a “touch-up”), it may be more obvious that you’ve “had something done.” This makes it especially important to choose a surgeon that won’t over-do it. Look for an expert facial plastic surgeon who delivers natural-looking results.

Experienced New York facial plastic surgeons offer many types of rejuvenation surgery. Options include:

• A forehead lift is a procedure to address deep forehead wrinkles.
• A brow lift can elevate your sagging eyebrows back to a youthful appearance.
• Blepharoplasty, or eyelid surgery, removes fatty deposits and excess skin around your eyes.
• A full facelift smoothes and firms the cheeks, jawline, and neck. A deep plane approach gives the most aesthetic and natural look. Great care is taken in scar placement to assure a natural, “invisible” result.
• A neck lift tightens up or eliminates loose or “baggy” skin around your neck and jawline, giving you a smoother, more youthful profile.

“We think we have discovered a genuine Fountain of Youth,” says Manhattan-based, 5th Avenue Plastic Surgeon Andrew Mark Klapper, M.D., Diplomat, American Board of Plastic Surgery.

“This is a game changer, there is simply nothing else like this on the market,” said Dr. Klapper, who has a patent pending on BIOS. “This will change how people look and feel forever and change the beauty industry evermore.”

BIOS, which launched with unprecedented success on Black Friday, uses the power of friendly bacteria known as “probiotics” to rejuvenate and protect facial skin.

After considerable testing and research, Dr. Klapper has devised a way to deliver the probiotic onto the skin, which is then activated by the skin’s own moisture. The good bacteria then works as living factories churning out ceramides and other natural humectants, making the skin supple and youthful looking. In addition, the BIOS System contains Astaxanthin, which serves as a powerful antioxidant scavenging the facial skin for free radicals. Peer-reviewed science has also shown it to be a natural sun screen that blocks the skin from damaging UV rays.

Nourishing and replenishing the moisture and youthfulness to the face, BIOS naturally reduces fine lines and aging wrinkles.

“It is like having a team of estheticians bathing your face in ‘active ingredients’ 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” Dr. Klapper said.

BIOS has other benefits besides slowing the visible aging process. It helps keep acne at bay. The probiotics colonize and protect the skin, preventing acne-causing bacteria to invade pores and cause acne blemishes.

“If acne bacteria are not growing on your skin and in your pores, you are not going to break out,” said Dr. Klapper.

Dr. Davis is known for his expertise in minimally invasive rejuvenative procedures that offer his patients less downtime and discomfort.  For his practice, he selected Pelleve, an advanced, innovative radiofrequency technology, because it provides short and long term results — a reduction of wrinkles. According to Dr. Davis, “Pelleve is a non-invasive procedure that is very comfortable for the patient, often described as warming and relaxing. Unlike other skin tightening systems, no anesthesia or skin cooling is required so patients can go right back to their routine immediately after the procedure looking refreshed.”

As Dr. Davis explains, “Another advantage of the Pelleve system is that the tightening occurs within the deeper layers of the skin since the radiofrequency energy is delivered deep into the dermis. In the past, I would have to use ablative laser resurfacing, setting the energy deep enough to affect the collagen to achieve wrinkle reduction. With Pelleve, I am actually able to get to the deep tissues to stimulate collagen growth and achieve skin tightening without damaging the surface of the skin.  For patients who want resurfacing, I combine the laser treatment with Pelleve, so I can resurface their skin using a gentler mode to reduce the downtime for the patients. The Pelleve System allows me to tailor the procedure to each patient so I can concentrate on the areas where it is needed.”

The new Laser Clinic of Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in Cherry Hill, NJ features a selected range of cutting edge technologies and treatments.

With XTRAC® Excimer Laser (www.XTRACLaser.com) treatments, psoriasis sufferers can get relief from their winter skin care woes. The XTRAC Excimer Laser, developed by PhotoMedex, Inc. (NASDAQ: PHMD), an innovator of medical devices, is the only clinically proven, FDA-cleared dermatology excimer laser with independent safety and quality certifications. It provides targeted phototherapy treatment for psoriasis, offering safe, effective and lasting results.

“It’s common knowledge that psoriasis patients experience the worst flare ups in the winter,” said Charles Stack, a psoriasis patient in Chicago. “But after seeing the level of clarity I’ve been able to achieve with the XTRAC Excimer Laser, I’m feeling confident I’ll have a better season keeping my plaque psoriasis symptoms under control this winter.”

Dr. Amy Forman Taub, Medical Director of Advanced Dermatology in Chicago, suggests the following tips to help psoriasis sufferers manage flare ups this winter:

Get some light: Exposure to ultraviolet light is a key factor in clearing psoriasis symptoms. Since winter means less access to sunlight, psoriasis sufferers often see an increase in flare-ups during this time of year. However, psoriasis patients can receive just the right amount of ultraviolet light during the dark days of fall and winter with targeted phototherapy treatments using the XTRAC Excimer Laser. The treatment specifically targets the affected areas with a carefully focused beam of light without exposing the entire body, and provides significant relief after just a few treatments.

Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize: Give your skin some relief from the dry cold air and be sure to moisturize often. The best time to apply moisturizer is after baths and showers. I recommend Mavena Body Care Lipolotion and Mavena Special Care Cream to those that visit our specialty skincare boutique, Skinfo, especially those with psoriasis.

Limit those long, hot showers: While a hot shower sounds nice during the cold days of winter, it dries the skin out more and is likely to increase the itchiness associated with psoriasis. Make your showers short with lukewarm water and use soap made for sensitive skin.

De-Stress: Stress is a big player in triggering or worsening psoriasis flare ups, look for ways to relax such as meditation, yoga, etc.

“Don’t wait too long to see your dermatologist when you start to flare up, especially in the Fall or Winter,” says Dr. Taub. “The longer you wait, the worse it’s going to get and the harder it will be to get your symptoms back under control.”

Broad coverage of the XTRAC treatments for psoriasis by Medicare and all major insurance companies now provides greater access to care for psoriasis sufferers who have spent their lives suffering from among other symptoms associated with the disease, dry, red, itchy and often painful areas of skin.

via Psoriasis Patients Ease Winter Skin Care Woes with PhotoMedex | Salon Spa News.

What makes Lumixyl Revitaleyes special? It is the first and only eye cream formulated with decapeptide-12 as part of a truly comprehensive treatment to correct dark circles, eye-area lines and wrinkles, dryness and inflammation. Most other products tackle just one or two of these issues, leaving behind unresolved problems. First introduced in the popular Lumixyl Brightening Creme, decapeptide-12 is theStanford University developed technology that is clinically shown to reduce the appearance of hyperpigmentation in skin without causing the irritation or redness associated with other brands. Combined with other potent ingredients, Lumixyl Revitaleyesaddresses all of the major contributing factors to dark circles under the eyes. The result is brightness, smoothness, and firmness that is truly age defying.

“Physicians and their patients have been telling us that they don’t have good options for treating dark under-eye circles,” saysCurtis A. Cluff, Chief Executive Officer of Envy Medical, Inc. ”We realized that there was no single product that comprehensively addressed the issues in a safe and effective manner.  Envy Medical is in a unique position to do just that using the Lumixyl peptide technology as part of a comprehensive formulation to diminish under-eye circles, no matter what the contributing factors are.”

“Our formula pairs industry proven ingredients that help with dermal iron deposits and inflammation with our proprietary skin brightening decapeptide-12 technology, making Revitaleyes the most comprehensive, professional-strength treatment for dark under-eye circles on the market today,” states Felipe Jimenez, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer for Envy Medical.

In fact, Lumixyl Revitaleyes Brightening Eye Cream expertly addresses the six biggest eye-area complaints, including:

SYMPTOM	ACTIVE INGREDIENT
Hyperpigmentation	Decapeptide–12 (Lumixyl peptide) – Reduces overproduction of skin pigment to brighten around the eyes
Iron Deposits	Chrysin, N-Hydroxysuccinimide, EDTA – Removes discoloration caused by iron deposits in skin tissue around the eyes
Inflammation	Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate – Inflammation casts a shadow around the eyes. This botanical anti-inflammatory naturally reduces this type of darkness
Dry Lines	Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Sodium Hyaluronate — Promotes smooth texture and reduces the appearance of fine-line wrinkles
Wrinkles	Palmitoyl Oligopeptide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Bambusa Vulgaris Extract, Pisum sativum (Pea) Extract–A powerful anti-aging cocktail that reduces the appearance of crepiness around eyes

These proven potent ingredients are together for the first time, delivering improved eye lift, tone, texture and vitality never before achieved by a standard eye cream. The product will be sold through dermatology, cosmetic surgery and medical spa physicians throughout the United States. Suggested retail price is $65.00 per 0.5 oz tube. For more information go to www.Lumixyl.com, or contact info@envymedical.com.