Get Refreshed for the Holidays
Look your best this Holiday season with non-surgical anti-aging treatments that will take the years away. Injectables address not only the wrinkles, but the muscles that cause lines and furrows to form and offer instant results, which is a major draw as many people don’t want the downtime that comes along with surgery. Here are the top injectables we use at Rice Cosmetic Surgery.
- Dermal fillers like Resytlane, Restylane Fine Lines and Perlane add volume to facial contours and are used to accentuate eyebrows, smooth under-eye hollows, enhance lips, increase volume in the upper cheek and naso-labial region, and define contours of your cheek, chin and jaw line. They are also used to fill acne scars, camouflage early jowls and to change the shape or symmetry of your face by softening a bulbous nose tip or removing a ski jump depression on the nose.
- Selphyl is a way of extracting platelets from the patient’s own blood and injecting the growth factors from the platelets to provide a more youthful appearance. Selphyl is used as an anti wrinkle treatment for eye wrinkles, lip wrinkles, neck wrinkles, marionette lines, smile lines and more.
- Sculptra is an injectable that uses poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) microparticles to fill in the areas where people lose volume in their face. It’s ideal for people who are developing jowls, marionette lines or sunken cheeks.
- Say goodbye to fish lips with Juvéderm Volbella, a hyaluronic acid (HA) based gel enhanced filler with painkilling Lidocaine created specifically for the lips. Volbella is a softer, smoother gel that allows for easier injection and its patented Vycross technology produces greater lift capacity and longer lasting results. It’s lower HA concentration means that it is less likely to absorb water, resulting in reduced swelling and a more natural result. Juvéderm Volift with Lidocaine is the latest HA dermal filler that adds volume to lips and can be used to define the lip’s contours and smooth away fine lines. It can also be used in the nasolabial folds than run from the nose to the mouth. Volift has a lower concentration of HA than other dermal fillers but produces the same effect, resulting in less swelling.
- Often used in conjunction with fillers, neuromodulators like Botox, Dysport and Xeomin temporarily block nerve receptors on the muscle to prevent the muscle contractions that cause lines and wrinkles. Made with Botulinum Toxin Type A, neuromodulators are used to treat crow’s-feet and glabella lines, the frown lines between the eyes.
When using injectables, it’s vital to avoid hitting a vein or the patient will end up with a giant bruise. Rice Cosmetic Surgery is the first in North America to use the Vein Viewer for aesthetic purposes. Featured on the Doctor’s and Doctor Oz, the Vein Viewer provides an easier and more efficient way to find a safe injection point. Projected near-infrared light is absorbed by the blood but reflected by surrounding tissue. The Vein Viewer captures the information, processes it and projects a digital image of the patient’s blood pattern within the vein directly on the surface of the skin much like on a movie screen.
Matt Williams
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