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Best Wishes for 2012!

Photos courtesy of: Ilan Karavani, MD and Alma Lasers.

With its ever-growing popularity, skin tightening has quickly grown into a must-have application for the aesthetic services provider. The ST handpiece on the Harmony^®XL is ideal for targeting those telltale signs of aging, including jowl and neck laxity, sagginess under the eyes, droopy brow lines, and nasolabial folds. Using the ST handpiece with near infrared technology, deep dermal heating induces neocollagenesis resulting in an increase in skin firmness. A series of three to six treatments produces a tighter, fresher appearance — without pain or invasive procedures. In addition, the ST handpiece is an integral part of the popular Laser360™ treatment, which has seen success with patients and in the media.

Meet Dr. Nelson who will be performing the procedure, plus mention our blog and receive $100 your first treatment.

Offer expires: 1/27/11.

Aging can break down your skin’s natural collagen renewal, which leads to facial lines or wrinkles that can’t be treated just with skin care products.

Radiesse is a facial filler, best used to correct wrinkles. Radiesse helps restore your youthful appearance by filling in loss of skin elasticity, volume and facial lines.

Radiesse uses a formulation that stimulates collagensis-the production of new collagen. This helps increase volume in the area in which it is lacking. The results are natural and youthful looking and can last up to one year or more. This treatment is quick, comfortable and convenient, that leaves you with minimal to no down time.

This treatment is performed in our office, by Dr. Cary D. Nelson.

We are now offering $100 off a 1.55cc syringe with the mention of this blog post when booking your appointment. Expires 10-15-10

It’s flu season, and you will probably notice your intake of Vitamin C is going up.

Vitamin C is great for fighting flu’s and cold’s, but also has a great effect when used in skin care products.

When Vitamin C is used in a topical form (skin care products), it has many different effects. It works just like it would if you felt you were getting a cold…Vitamin C helps boost your skin’s collagen and skin renewal cells, just like it helps boost your immune system. This super anti-oxidant is essential to skin renewal, and can also play a key role in brightening you skin, and treating fine lines and wrinkles.

We carry these various Vitamin C based products: C-Complex Cream, Green Tea Soothing Pads & Revitalizing Gel.

In our last segment, we talked about how your skin is the largest organ in your body. It’s not replaceable, so why abuse it?  We will say this over and over again……catch the hint?

As we previously stated, a lot of things are considered when it comes to getting healthy skin. Diet, regular exercise, vitamins, are all contributing factors and roles in maintaining healthy, balanced skin.

In this segment our Aestheticians focus on products and how they improve the health of the dermis.

The skin’s primary function is to protect the body from external pathogens, it poses a penetration challenge for some ingredients. Optimally, a topical ingredient should penetrate the entire epidermis/dermis if it’s to provide benefits. Using oil-based ingredients, or adding an oil or penetration agent to the product, can help the compounds get through the epidermis.

Promising Ingredients:
The primary causes of skin damage and aging are exposure to sunlight—UVB and UVA—oxidation and inflammation of the skin, decreases in supportive collagen, loss of muscle tone, and dryness. Topical anti-aging ingredients seek to ameliorate these conditions. Popular vitamins, such as C and E, are well-studied for topical benefits. Other compounds, such as DMAE, Hyaluronic Acid and CoQ10, are supported by emerging research. The following are some of the popular, scientifically backed inclusions for today’s anti-aging skin care products.

VITAMIN C: researchers discovered that vitamin C  had significantly reduced wrinkles and had rearranged wrinkle lines from deeper ruts into shallow, random order, a sign of younger skin and a stronger collagen matrix. The same researchers further tested vitamin C on post-menopausal women—previously thought to have severely limited skin-collagen-production capacity—and found that topical vitamin C significantly increased the production of collagen vs. placebo.

VITAMIN E: It’s recommended that supplementing orally with 400mg vitamin E daily can reduce photodamage and wrinkles and can improve skin texture, while topical applications, including blends with vitamin C, can soothe dry skin and protect against sun damage. Researchers have found the topical application of alpha-tocopherol to be more effective than internal supplementation at preventing UV damage. In another study, researchers found that a topical solution of alpha-tocopherol inhibited UVR-induced epidermal lipid peroxidation.

DIMETHYLAMINOETHANOL (DMAE): made its debut years ago as a cure-all antioxidant aimed at enhancing cognitive functioning and reducing fatigue and depression. Nicholas Perricone, MD, author of The Perricone Prescription, claims that it is even more potent topically, adding to DMAE’s credentials as a membrane stabilizer, anti-inflammatory and penetration enhancer.

A young face is characterized by short, thick muscles that prevent sagging. As we get older, the muscles get thinner and longer, causing a flatter and increasingly saggy face. Cosmetic surgeons cut muscles shorter to pull up the sags and round out the face.

DMAE stimulates the contraction of muscles so you correct the sagging and get a more rounded look and a physiologically younger face. A possible mechanism of action is DMAE’s stimulation of acetylcholine, a key component in muscle contraction.  DMAE also helps stabilize skin-cell membranes.

HYALURONIC ACID: Injected forms of HA have been used for arthritis, wrinkle-removal, ophthalmic surgery, and research supports its critical role in scar-less wound healing.Small facial cuts heal without scarring because of high HA levels. HA’s multi-faceted role in wound repair—carefully regulating inflammation, formation of granulation tissue, re-epithelisation and remodeling—has prompted its topical use.

C0Q10: CoQ10 decreases in level with age and thus skin at about age
30 is below optimum, resulting in a lesser ability to produce collagen,
elastin, and other important skin molecules.  CoQ10 is a small
molecule that can easily penetrate the skin. These studies indicate CoQ10 to be an effective topical agent and is a viable photo-protectant with the ability to penetrate into the skin.

*Skinetics products containing these wonderful and promising ingredients: C-Complex Cream, Green Tea Soothing Pads, Repairative Emulsion, Revitalizing Gel, RevitaMoist.

Stay tuned for more in the upcoming weeks……Here’s to healthy skin!