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Today the new field of medical aesthetics or aesthetic medicine is helping people avoid and correct facial aging without the need for plastic surgery.

Revolutionary new advances in facial skin care in the past few years have made true facial skin rejuvenation a possibility for many people.

Before and after photo laser skin resurfacing

More importantly, with early intervention and new facial anti-aging techniques most people can prevent skin aging and facial aging and maintain a youthful skin and facial appearance and avoid looking older.

However, the shear number of new, heavily marketed facial skin rejuvenation techniques and the often-complex methodologies involved can be very confusing for the lay reader and physicians alike. To better understand the new facial rejuvenation treatments it is very helpful to first understand facial skin aging changes and then review how these changers can be reversed and the skin rejuvenated.

Facial Skin aging – Is that my mother I see looking back at me in the mirror?

The earliest skin aging changes most of us notice on our face, are fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes often referred to as crow’s feet and later deep furrows on our forehead called the frown lines and worry lines. These changes occur for most of us in our 30’s. We also begin to see brown spots and red spots or small blood vessels on our face and around the nostrils of our noses. Later the skin becomes dryer and loses the fresh glowing appearance of our youth. These superficial or surface changes are called type 1 skin aging or facial aging changes and are caused by sun damage and free radical damage from other inflammatory agents in our diet and environment and our heredity.

Later, in our late 40’s and 50’s we begin to see sagging facial skin. Usually the first sign is loose skin beneath our chin on the neck often called the turkey wattle. Later we see loose folds beginning along the jaw-line, often called jowls. As the skin sags we begin to see deep lines on either side of the mouth, called the nasal-labial fold lines and marionette lines. Aged skin also can begin to droop over the eyes and the eyebrows can begin to fall. These later skin-aging changes are called type 2 facial aging changes and are caused by the loss of skin elasticity. Sun damage, inflammation from free radicals released by our diet, and our heredity are the basic causes.

6-Step Facial Skin Rejuvenation – Help is on the way

Today we do not have to stand by and helplessly watch our skin age. With sun block, a healthy diet and lifestyle and new facial skin rejuvenation technology we can prevent or correct most skin aging changes. But first let’s understand what is meant by the term “skin rejuvenation.

To rejuvenate means to “make young or youthful again or restore to an original state”. To me this means correcting or removing not only wrinkles, but also the brown spots, red spots and dry skin, but also tightening sagging skin that is all of the facial aging changes, not just one or two. Wrinkle removal is only part of the process.

Before and after Lip Filler Injection Restylane

True facial skin rejuvenation is possible with today’s new technology, but skin rejuvenation must be performed in a logical, comprehensive, step-by-step process that addresses all of the major skin aging changes. Most skin rejuvenation treatments offered today only address one or two changes and as a result are ineffective. A laser can remove brown spots and blood vessels, but the skin is left with wrinkles and sagging skin. A face-lift can tighten the facial skin but leaves you with a tight old looking face.

For effective modern skin rejuvenation I offer my patients a 6-step facial rejuvenation program® which addresses each of the facial aging changes described above. The result is true facial skin rejuvenation that makes the face truly look young or youthful again. The 6 steps to non-surgical facial rejuvenation are:

Exfoliation – removes dead dry skin cells and superficial pigment restoring a youthful glow to the skin and helping removewrinkles.

Stimulation of new collagen production – New collagen must be restored to replace the collagen damaged by sun and aging. New collagen plumps the skin, helps remove wrinkles and firms the skin

Removal of pigment and blood vessels - This step removes the brown spots and red spots or blood vessels from the facial skin

Relax muscles of facial expression – Frown lines, worry lines, and crow’s feet are caused by the pull of some of the facial muscles. When these muscles are relaxed, the lines disappear and wrinkles are removed.

Before and after Botox to remove Crow's Feet

Fill deep facial lines – The deep nasal-labial fold and marionette lines are plumped up to make them less noticeable. These are deep lines, not wrinkles.

Tighten facial skin – The facial skin is tightened to improve the jowls, sagging brow and neck skin. Skin tightening also helps with wrinkle removal.

This 6 step Program is a comprehensive, scientific medically proven method for true facial skin rejuvenation, wrinkle removal and skin tightening.This is modern non-surgical method for effective true facial skin rejuvenation. The details of the program are carefully outlined in Chapter 5 of my book “Save Your Face.
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