Botox®(Botulinum Toxin)/Fillers


Botox ® (Botulinum Toxin Type A)

BOTOX is a natural purified protein extracted in a high-tech Allergan laboratory and is extracted from specially harvested bacteria. BOTOX is a non-surgical physician administered therapy to relax facial & neck muscles causing lines & wrinkles and therefore smoothens the aging lines, It can also be used in patients with excessive sweating on palms and underarms. BOTOX is delivered in a form of refined medication available only to certified Botox injectors.

What does the treatment involve ?
  • While there is no real downtime associated with this treatment, it is important to note that you may encounter some slight bruising and swelling directly after treatment, due to the needle. This can easily be masked by makeup. There are no long-term side effects of having wrinkle injections, meaning patients can resume their usual activities straight away, and can also fly post-treatment.
Who would suit the treatment ?
  • This treatment can be used on a wide range of patients, and is primarily used for skin rejuvenation and the reduction of fine lines and wrinkles. Botulinum toxin is injected into muscles and used to improve the look of moderate to severe frown lines between the eyebrows (glabellar lines) for a short period of time. It can also be injected into the area around the side of the eyes to improve the look of moderate to severe crow’s feet lines.
Who should avoid this treatment ?
  • Those who have medical conditions, such as damaged nerves or muscle complaints, should disclose this information during consultation, to avoid any complications. Treatment is not advisable for those who are pregnant or breastfeeding. While there are no clinical studies to show that the injection is harmful to the baby or mother, medical professionals advise against having treatment under these circumstances.
What results does the treatment aim to provide ?
  • The treatment is used to soften the lines caused by facial expression and can be adjusted to ensure natural results. The duration of results is variable in between individuals but ranges from 3 to 6 months.
  • Typically, patients will come into the clinic and point to a specific line that they don’t like. Good practitioners shouldn’t just look at treating this specific line, but will look beyond the line at how the face looks as a whole (as treating an individual line might make the face look unnatural). Sometimes patients come in and say their colleagues and friends keep telling them that they look tired or grumpy when this isn’t the case. In these cases, it’s usually not a single line that is creating this impression, but multiple factors, and the practitioner should talk through treatment options with the patient.


Fillers

Gel Formulation of Hyaluronic Acid that is specifically formulated to act like body's own naturally produced hyaluronic acid, helping to instantly and visibly reduce moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds or add volume in areas of volume loss due to ageing. Fillers are used for cheek ,chin augmentation, nose reshaping, jaw line reshaping and also to augment the lips create a eyebrow lift and for under eye hollowness.Unlike the notion of undergoing anti ageing treatment after 50's if started in late 20's and early thirties it removes tired apppearance on face ,sharpens your features and gives you a youthful appearance.

What does the treatment involve ?
  • The procedure takes around 30-45 minutes and patients can expect to notice the effects for as long as 18 months after treatment. There is even precedence of results lasting up to 24 months in some cases, however, treatment with fillers is completely reversible. With any injectable treatment, there can be some slight bruising or swelling that accompanies it. This should not persist much longer than a day, and is easily coverable with makeup.
Who would suit the treatment ?
  • Facial fillers can be used on a wide range of patients, and are primarily used for skin rejuvenation and the reduction of lines and wrinkles. Other suitable candidates are those seeking to add structure and volume to the face. I see a lot of patients who have lost volume in their face due to living a very active, high impact lifestyle (such as runners). Fillers help to restore the volume loss that naturally begins to occur when we reach our late thirties, and in turn gives a fresher, brighter appearance.
Who should avoid this treatment ?
  • There is no known risk to those who are pregnant or breastfeeding, but we would advise against having treatment under these circumstances.
What results does the treatment aim to provide ?
  • The results should be subtle, leaving our friends and family believing that we are simply looking our best and great for our years. Treatment lasts between 18-24 months but, naturally, towards the end of this period the effects begin to gradually soften, so there is no dramatic change. When the effects begin to soften, we aim to ‘top up’ the treatment.
  • Patients will often come in to the clinic and point to a specific line that they don’t like. Good practitioners shouldn’t just look at treating this specific line, but will look beyond it to how the face looks as a whole, since treating an individual line could make the patient look unnatural. Sometimes the patient will say that people tell them they look sad, tired or grumpy when this isn’t really the case. In these instances, it’s usually not a single line that is causing this impression but multiple factors and the practitioner should discuss treatment options with the patient. It is really key that you feel safe and reassured by your chosen practitioner: a partnership should develop where you can speak freely about what concerns you, as this will allow the practitioner to truly understand your hopes and desired outcomes.

Vampire Facial (PRP)


Platelet Rich Plasma

In laymen's terms: It's a facial that essentially uses, "your own blood to help promote the healthy activity of your skin cells," Although blood is mainly a liquid (called plasma), it also contains small solid components (red cells, white cells, and platelets.) The platelets are best known for their importance in clotting blood. However, platelets also contain hundreds of proteins called growth factors which are very important in the healing of injuries.

Vampire facial (PRP) is plasma with many more platelets than what is typically found in blood. The concentration of platelets — and, thereby, the concentration of growth factors — can be 5 to 10 times greater (or richer) than usual.

To develop a PRP preparation, blood must first be drawn from a patient. The platelets are separated from other blood cells and their concentration is increased during a process called centrifugation. Then the increased concentration of platelets is combined with the remaining blood.

How Does Vampire facial (PRP) Work?
  • Vampire facial (PRP) can be carefully injected into the injured area. For example, in Achilles tendonitis, a condition commonly seen in runners and tennis players, the heel cord can become swollen, inflamed, and painful. A mixture of PRP and local anesthetic can be injected directly into this inflamed tissue. Afterwards, the pain at the area of injection may actually increase for the first week or two, and it may be several weeks before the patient feels a beneficial effect.
  • Vampire facial (PRP) may also be used to improve healing after surgery for some injuries. For example, an athlete with a completely torn heel cord may require surgery to repair the tendon. Healing of the torn tendon can possibly be improved by treating the injured area with PRP during surgery. This is done by preparing the PRP in a special way that allows it to actually be stitched into torn tissues.

Radiofrequency


Radio frequency

It is painless non-invasive anti-aging treatment in which radiofrequency is used to tighten the skin and reduce fine line and wrinkles on face, neck and body. It also helps with tightening post pregnancy saggy abdomen. The patients can be treated quicker than ever before, with no need for anesthesia, no downtime and best of all no pain!, provides fast and effective wrinkle reduction with visible results often after the first session.

It delivers long lasting and measurable results through non-surgical aesthetic system. All areas can be easily treated and improved. It also complements pre and post treatment in Lipolysis procedure.


Benefits

Given how women’s skin vary from men, part of their uniqueness to men is the affliction of cellulite being gender-selective to them -- Only women get cellulites while men never do. Cellulites is a women-only skin issue commonly found around the buttocks and at the back of the thighs where we generally store our body fats. Thanks to the RF treatment, however, gone are those days when we have to suffer from the skin bulging problems caused by cellulite. With the adipose tissue and fats as the cause of cellulite, the heat coming from the RF treatment diminishes the bulging of excess fatty tissues.
Unlike cellulites which are skin-deep body fats and whose appearance is applicable only to women, general body fats however apply to both men and women.
Looking at the anatomical level, both cellulites and general body fats have one thing in common – the problem lies with the fatty tissues from beneath the skin’s superficial and lower layers.
Luckily, the RF treatment is also said to address the issue of excessive body fats among us regardless of age. The resulting heat mechanism of the RF treatment causes some body fats to melt and be drained into the system thereby producing a result at par or equal to surgical means of losing body fats.
Partly what makes skin wrinkles so obvious sometimes are the clear lines that are creased over an elderly person’s skin often as a natural result of the aging process throughout the years.
Others whose skin problems are not limited to wrinkles simply have excessively lumpy and stretched skin, possibly as a result of sudden change in weight.
However, as the quality of the skin that we see from the outside can be changed through some alterations from the inside, doing so with an RF treatment is most possible thanks to the method’s non-surgical approach..
By applying the RF treatment, deep-seated soft tissues from under the skin are stimulated which facilitates healing through the production of new collagen tissues that are reactive towards the RF waves.
Not all who go through the process of liposuction always have a 100% smooth finish to the affected area. Others who did not end up as so notice bumps on the area where body fats are surgically removed, often a not-so-pretty sight in comparison to well-toned and proportional skin tissues, muscles, and some fats.
Although there are existing measures that address this issue among post-operative liposuction patients, RF treatment can also be employed for a bout of non-surgical treatment for the issue of bulging and sagging skin.

Thread Lift


Thread lift

Thread lifts are a minimally invasive skin rejuvenation and anti-aging technique which involves insertion of poly lactic polydioxanone threads into the skin along certain vector lines to create a pull, and new collagen formation over 3-4 months, resulting in a lift. The newer threads give immediate changes however optimal results are seen after 3-4months. Thread lifts can be used to create jaw line definition, face contouring, reduce neck laxity, reduce nasolabial fold depth, to create a brow lift.


Types of Thread Lifts

Surgical thread-lifting can be compared to a face lift and procedures fall into two categories.
FREE FLOATING THREADS are inserted beneath the skin under a local anaesthetic and pulled into place, creating a lift that usually lasts between one to two years.
FIXED THREADS, attached to the skin’s underlying structures, are capable of delivering a more radical, face-lift type result and are often combined with excess skin removal for best results. These last from two to four years.
Recovery, for any swelling or bruising to go down, takes from 7 to 14 days, so if you do go ahead build in a week off.
Non-surgical threads are the middle way. The discreet and subtle option best suited for 35 to 55-year-olds, they rev up collagen production, are less radical than the surgical option, but do have lifting benefits significant enough to make a noticeable difference.
Again it is highly advisable the procedure is completed by a cosmetic surgeon, aesthetic doctor or qualified medical practitioner.
Usually four to 16 threads are applied in a treatment, requiring a local anaesthetic, that can last from 20 minutes to an hour. Expect mild to moderate swelling, but recovery time is on average one to two days.
This is the treatment becoming most widely available, and with the most potential for client confusion and disappointed expectations
However beauty threads do have benefits for younger skin and can make the most of other procedures.
Getting good advice beforehand about what is being used is crucial, most materials have a similar effect so don’t be bamboozled into thinking one type is superior to another.