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Am I Too Young For A Facelift?

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the difference between male and female breast reduction surgeryIt is no secret that cosmetic procedures are becoming more popular with younger demographics than in previous years.  Social media and video conferencing have brought our appearance into greater focus, leading younger age groups, such as millennials, to change how they address signs of aging.  In years past, patients would wait until their 60s before considering cosmetic procedures such as traditional facelifts.  Now, when millennials notice the first signs of aging, they are keen to address them early on.  

Aging is not a one size fits all process.  Everyone ages differently, and many factors impact how quickly a person begins to show signs of aging.  Certainly, genetics plays a part, as does diet and exercise, sun damage, alcohol consumption, and smoking.  Where you are in the aging process will determine the procedure(s) best suited for your situation. 

If you are a young person in your late 20s and early 30s with proper skin care habits, you may be able to address the initial signs of aging with nonsurgical solutions.  Botox® and Dysport® as well as facial fillers are a great way to treat early signs of aging.  Every expression we make cause the muscles in our face to contract, and this repetitive movement leads to fine lines and wrinkles.  Additionally, our skin loses firmness as we age because our collagen production decreases.  We can treat fine lines and wrinkles with Botox® and Dysport® to help relax the muscles and prevent them from contracting.  We can then use facial fillers, such as Restylane® and Juvéderm® to fill in the gaps and restore volume.  These procedures take around 30 minutes with no downtime, so you can return to regular activity quickly.

Another great nonsurgical option is Band Aid Laser Skin Resurfacing.  Laser skin resurfacing works by encouraging collagen production in your skin.  Collagen is the protein responsible for making skin firmer and smoother.  Using this treatment, we are able to encourage new collagen production which will reduce fine lines and wrinkles, diminish scarring and freckles, and treat sun damage.  You will be left with a smoother complexion and a more youthful appearance.  My Band Aid Laser Skin Resurfacing procedure is performed in-office with gentle numbing, making the procedure easy and comfortable.  Generally, you can expect a recovery period of about two weeks. 

Once you enter your 40s you may want to consider surgical options.  I have a line of Band Aid Facelift procedures that aim to provide patients with the ability to treat aging in incremental stages.  My Band Aid Mini Facelift and Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift procedures are unique because they produce a very natural, subtle change and are performed in-office with gentle numbing.  As a result, these procedures are less invasive than traditional facelifts, leading to less swelling and bruising, shorter recovery time, lower costs, and fewer complications.  The difference between these two procedures depends upon how much aging needs to be corrected.

My Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift is great for patients seeking to address early signs of aging subtly, or as maintenance between facelift procedures.  On the other hand, my Band Aid Mini Facelift may be a better option if you seek to correct more advanced signs of aging but are not yet ready for or wanting to do a traditional facelift.  Both procedures are great options for patients looking to address new signs of aging as they appear, leaving you with natural-looking results and a younger version of yourself. 

Of course, you are not forced to decide between laser, injectables, or surgical options.  Each of these procedures complements one another, and combining treatments can enhance and prolong results.

Millennials are discovering that utilizing cosmetic procedures sooner leads to a more graceful and natural-looking aging process.  So, asking the question “am I too young for a facelift?” really depends on you as an individual and where you are in the aging process.  This is a question best answered during an in-person consultation where I can better understand your cosmetic needs and goals and what concerns you desire to correct. So, schedule a consultation with me, Dr. John LeRoy, at my Atlanta office.  I am happy to discuss the details of my Band Aid procedures with you and assist you in achieving your cosmetic goals.  For more information follow me on Facebook. 

Is It Time for Botox® or Dysport®? Top Signs to Look For

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Nonsurgical wrinkle treatmentsFor many people, Botox® or Dysport® injections are one of the first treatments they receive to reduce signs of aging. While it is a low-risk, minimally invasive, brief procedure, it can still feel like a leap of faith for patients who have never had professional facial rejuvenation treatments or those who have only had mild skin treatments like chemical peels. How do you know when you’re ready for Botox® or Dysport® injections?

As a double board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in facial rejuvenation, I have helped many patients ease the anxiety of their first injection appointment. While wrinkle reduction injections and other cosmetic treatments should be an entirely personal decision, there are a few signs that indicate you may be ready for Botox® or Dysport®.

You Have Crow’s Feet in the Corners of Your Eyes

Among the first signs of aging that tend to appear are wrinkles called crow’s feet. These lines start in the outer corners of your eyes and extend outward.

Crow’s feet develop as the result of making the same facial expressions for decades. Over time, your muscles become tense and create a wrinkle in your skin. Botox® or Dysport® can ease these wrinkles by relaxing those tensed muscles for months at a time.

You’ve Developed Persistent Forehead Lines

When you raise your eyebrows or tense your forehead, you see horizontal wrinkles across your forehead. In the same way crow’s feet develop, these forehead lines occur because your forehead muscles eventually become tense in a prolonged way so that you have wrinkles even when your facial expression is neutral. Botox® or Dysport® injections can smooth these lines to give you a more youthful appearance.

You’re Noticing Frown Lines When You Aren’t Frowning

When you frown and furrow your brow, you’ll notice that vertical lines appear between your eyebrows. As with crow’s feet and forehead lines, though, for many people, these wrinkles eventually reach a point when they don’t fade after you stop frowning. This can make you look older and you may appear irritable or unhappy when you aren’t.

If you have noticed these persistent frown lines, Botox® or Dysport® injections are the ideal way to ease them for several months with each treatment. These injections will relax the targeted muscles to give you a more positive and refreshed look.

You’re Looking for a Minimally Invasive Way to Reduce Wrinkles

There are many treatments and procedures available today to reduce wrinkles, but they each have their own pros and cons and are ideal for different types of wrinkles. If you want a way to reduce expression lines with a quick and simple treatment that is minimally invasive and requires no time off work to recover, Botox® or Dysport® injections are likely a good fit.

You Want a Way to Minimize Future Wrinkles

The best way to treat aging is to prevent it as much as possible. Botox® and Dysport® injections have a unique advantage of slowing the development of expression lines. Expression lines appear because the facial muscles become progressively more tensed after years of repeated facial movements. Botox® and Dysport® relax these muscles for months with a single treatment. During that time, not only are your wrinkles smoother but because the muscles aren’t contracting, they aren’t making your expression lines worse. This is why many younger adults are starting Botox® or Dysport® injections even before they have significant wrinkles

Beginning Your Botox® or Dysport® Treatments

If you can identify with the signs above, you may be ready to start using Botox® or Dysport® injections to enjoy a more youthful, refreshed appearance in a non-surgical, minimally invasive way. To learn more and decide whether Botox® or Dysport® injections may be right for you, schedule a consultation with me, Dr. John LeRoy. For more insights, follow me on Facebook.

Looking Younger for the Holidays: Cosmetic Facial Injections

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botox injections, cosmetic procedures for face, wrinkle reduction, difference between botox and dysport, how to fade forehead wrinklesThis fall seems to be flying by, and with Thanksgiving around the corner, the holiday season is already nipping at our heels. As excited as we all are to celebrate and spend a joyous time with our friends and families, many people are also anxious about looking their best. After all, the holidays are a perfect time to snap pictures of the entire family together.

If you’re looking for a way to give yourself a more youthful look before the holidays arrive, you’re not out of time. Cosmetic facial injections like Botox® or Dysport® and facial fillers such as Restylane®, Juvéderm®, and Radiesse® are among the fastest-acting treatments for facial rejuvenation, and if you want to smooth some wrinkles before the holidays, these are likely to be your best option.

As a double board-certified plastic surgeon who has helped thousands of patients look younger and more refreshed with cosmetic facial injections, I’m happy to help you understand your options.

How Different Types of Cosmetic Facial Injections Can Help You Look Younger

There are two general categories of cosmetic facial injections: wrinkle relaxers or neuromodulators like Botox® and Dysport®, and facial fillers. Either of them can be very effective (or a combination of both of them), but they each have their own uses.

Neuromodulators like Botox® and Dysport® are ideal for wrinkles that form because of tensed facial muscles. When you make repeated facial expressions over the course of years, like squints, frowns, and raised eyebrows, the muscles that create these expressions are contracting so often that they eventually stay in a semi-contracted state. When that happens, it pinches your skin into a wrinkle, much like the lines you see when you make those facial expressions.

This is particularly common in the form of crow’s feet, frown lines between the eyebrows, and lines across the forehead from raised eyebrows or surprised expressions. Botox® and Dysport® temporarily relax those tensed facial muscles, allowing the skin above it to smooth out and the wrinkle to fade or disappear.

Facial fillers, on the other hand, are meant for a different cause of wrinkles: a loss of volume and firmness in the skin. Fillers like Restylane® and Juvéderm® use a material called hyaluronic acid to replace this lost volume. This “fills in” wrinkles, hollow regions, and thinning areas and gives your skin a smoother, more youthful look.

There are also fillers like Radiesse® which start out similar to traditional fillers by using synthetic material to replace youthful facial volume. But Radiesse® also contains a specialized ingredient that drives your body to produce more collagen – the protein that makes young skin firm and wrinkle-free. This leads to longer-lasting results: up to two years compared to the six to twelve months that most facial fillers last.

When Should I Schedule My Cosmetic Facial Injections for the Holidays?

If you want to look your best when the holidays arrive, when should you schedule your cosmetic facial injections? It depends on the injections you’re receiving.

Botox® and Dysport® both start showing results about two days after your injections. You. May have some minor redness and bruising for a few days. The results gradually improve, reaching their full potential within 30 days of your treatment. Those results typically last for about three months.

The timeline is a bit different with facial fillers. Because traditional fillers are using an injectable gel to restore your facial volume, you’ll see results instantly when the fillers are injected. However, you may have some redness, swelling, and bruising in the first few days after your procedure, so your final results will be visible after those effects have faded.

With Radiesse®, you’ll also see immediate results that will be fully visible after your bruising and swelling fade. The collagen growth, though, begins to be noticeable about three months after your injection and will continue for about two years.

Getting Ready for the Holidays with Cosmetic Facial Injections

Now is the perfect time to start preparing for the holidays with your cosmetic facial injections. To discuss your options and schedule your quick and simple treatment, call my plastic surgery office today. Be sure to follow me on Facebook and Twitter for more plastic surgery and facial rejuvenation insights.

See Ya, Summer Sun Damage! Hello, August Specials

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We’re soaking up the fleeting moments of summer before the often chaotic, busier schedule of autumn starts again. As the season begins to set like the sun on a warm August night, we raise a toast to quiet moments of listening to the summer rain before the seasons change. Soon quality time with family and friends becomes more of an effort, and life can start to feel stressful. Your skin shouldn’t be a stress or concern—let me take care of that with Band Aid Plastic Surgery specials!

I’m delighted to offer special savings on some of my favorite treatments from my Band Aid plastic surgery procedure line for another month. We will continue to offer fantastic savings on our Band Aid Skin Tightening  with Protégé technology, a non-invasive treatment that helps to enhance and prolong your cosmetic procedures. It also works wonders on its own, with many patients seeing dramatic differences after just a few treatments. If this summer left you with noticeable sun damage, you’ll love to save on Band Aid Laser Resurfacing! As with Band Aid Skin Tightening, Band Aid Laser Skin Resurfacing is also a great option to enhance your previous results by increasing radiance and tone.

Rounding out our selection of specials valid through August 31st, 2014, receive $35 off each mL of Perlane® or Restylane® (maximum 5mL per patient) and $25 off each treatment of Dysport® (maximum $50 rebate per patient). As we told you last month, Dysport® was named among other Botulinum toxin type A injections as the most popular of all minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures of 2013. Don’t miss this chance to save!

To evolve and enhance your beauty without extensive downtime, our non-surgical anti-aging treatments may be your answer. To learn more about our treatments and specials, contact our office. You can also learn more about minimally-invasive procedures by connecting on Facebook, Twitter, and Google +.

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Feel Fabulous for the Fourth & Beyond with July Specials!

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Are you between the ages of 40 and 54 years old? If so, you make up the majority of all people who have cosmetic procedures according to statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). In fact, over 6.5 million people in this age group had minimally-invasive plastic surgery in 2013. With these procedures being so popular, I’m pleased to offer savings on some of my favorite treatments from my Band Aid plastic surgery procedure line.

atlanta plastic surgery specialsAs a double board-certified plastic surgeon, I offer procedures like Band Aid Laser Skin Resurfacing and Band Aid Skin Tightening in order to provide you with the healthy-looking, radiant, and renewed skin of your dreams in just a few hours, with no downtime or anesthesia required.  Band Aid Laser Skin Resurfacing can suspend the need for surgical facial rejuvenation by decreasing the appearance of the fine lines and wrinkles that naturally follow aging while restoring beautiful skin damaged by years gone by. Performed in office with gentle numbing, Band Aid Laser Skin Resurfacing makes results from other Band Aid plastic surgery procedures even better, or can provide noticeable radiant results on its own.

The controlled, gentle RF heat of Band Aid Skin Tightening treatments targets deep dermal layers of the skin to promote collagen production. By the end of your package of 5 treatments, you will notice a reduction in fine lines, sagging skin, and deeper wrinkles. What you won’t notice? The extensive downtime associated with other surgical skin rejuvenating procedures. Rather, you’ll be good to carry on with your day in a matter of minutes.

Millions of people each year receive cosmetic injections, with hyaluronic acid-based fillers like Perlane® and Restylane® increasing 18% in popularity last year (ASPS). As an added bonus, we invite you to join us to take advantage of special rebates on some of our most popular facial fillers! Through the end of the month, receive $35 off each mL of Perlane® or Restylane® (maximum 5mL per patient) and $25 of each treatment of Dysport® (maximum $50 rebate per patient). Dysport® was named among other Botulinum toxin type A injections as the single most popular minimally-invasive cosmetic procedure of 2013.

Remember, specials expire on July 31st, 2014. Make your appointment today! For more on the latest specials and events from me, Dr. John L. LeRoy, follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Google +.

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