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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.

Top Benefits of the Band Aid Mini Facelift

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older-female-with-clear-facial-skinFor hundreds of thousands of Americans each year, cosmetic surgery is a way to regain their confidence and empower them to live their lives without the burden of a nagging self-consciousness. I’m proud to help so many of these people throughout Atlanta and beyond to achieve an outer appearance that matches their inner vitality, and the most common way I accomplish this is with my signature Band Aid Mini Facelift.

My Band Aid Mini Facelift is a unique procedure I developed and have been performing exclusively for over 25 years. I use minimally invasive techniques and gentle localized numbing to provide a less invasive surgical facelift that’s performed in-office, creating strong and natural-looking results without general anesthesia.

For decades, my patients have been thrilled with their Band Aid Mini Facelifts. To determine if this procedure might benefit you, consider these unique advantages the surgery has to offer.

Faster Recovery Time

When you have committed to making a change in your appearance, you want the results to take effect as soon as possible, and you don’t want to put your life on hold for weeks in the meantime. My Band Aid Mini Facelift offers about half the recovery time of a traditional facelift. In a typical surgery, your body must recover not only from the surgery but from the general anesthesia too and everything associated with it.

Fewer Anesthesia Anxieties

Many people are fearful of general anesthesia because they worry about extremely rare yet possible complications and about their bodies being outside of their control. For some, this anxiety prevents them from getting a cosmetic surgery that could make a tremendous positive difference in their lives. For my Band Aid Mini Facelift, though, I use gentle numbing in the area rather than general anesthesia, so you’ll be comfortable throughout your procedure while still remaining awake and fully in control.

Lower Cost

While plastic surgery isn’t a purchase you should make with price as your top deciding factor, it is helpful to know that my Band Aid Mini Facelift costs around half as much as a traditional facelift. In a traditional plastic surgery, you’ll have three major costs: the surgeon’s fees, the operating room fees for the hospital or surgical center, and the anesthesia fees. Because I perform my Band Aid Mini Facelift in-office with local numbing, you won’t need to pay operating room fees or anesthesia fees, which would normally make up about half the cost of a traditional facelift.

Milder Recovery Experience

A quick recovery is appealing to most of my patients because they want to be back at work and doing all the activities they love (with a younger look) as soon as possible after their surgery. With my Band Aid Mini Facelift, though, you don’t only recover more quickly. Your recovery is easier and more comfortable as well because the minimally invasive techniques cause less swelling and bruising than you would experience from a traditional facelift.

Exceptional Cosmetic Results

There is a common misconception that a minimally invasive procedure compromises your results, but that isn’t necessarily the case. The vast majority of people seeking a facelift will be able to get the results they want from my Band Aid Mini Facelift. As with any plastic surgery, though, an in-person consultation will allow you to find out if you’re a candidate.

Scheduling Your Band Aid Mini Facelift Consultation

If the benefits of my Band Aid Mini Facelift sound appealing to you, I would be honored to meet with you to tell you more and determine if you’re a candidate for this procedure. Schedule a mini facelift consultation at my plastic surgery office in Atlanta today. Follow me on Facebook for more cosmetic surgery insights and tips.

What Is an Eye Lift?

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lady-checks-face-in-mirrorWe all want to retain the vigor and vitality of youth, and most of us want our appearance to do the same. It’s no surprise, then, that many of the most popular plastic surgery procedures focus on “lifting” and restoring a younger, rejuvenated look. You’ve heard of a facelift, neck lift, brow lift, breast lift, and possibly even a body lift. There’s another procedure, though, that is more popular than you might realize: an eye lift.

As a double board-certified plastic surgeon who has specialized in facial rejuvenation for over 25 years, I am proud to provide an inside look at eye lifts including what they are, why they’re performed, and how you can make yours minimally invasive.

What Is an Eye Lift?

An eye lift, simply put, is a plastic surgery that revitalizes the area around the eyes. It may involve removing excess sagging skin and swollen fat and repositioning other tissue, but the ultimate goal is to make your eyes look younger and brighter and to align with your desired results.

Eye lifts go by several different names. You may hear this surgery referred to as cosmetic eyelid surgery, blepharoplasty, eyelid lift, or possibly an “eye job.” By any name, though, there are two types of eye lifts. Upper eyelid surgery focuses on the area above your eyes, namely the space between your eyebrow and your upper eyelid. Lower eyelid surgery focuses on the area below the eyes. Some people want to reduce aging both above and below their eyes, so it’s common to perform upper and lower eyelid surgery in the same procedure.

What Cosmetic Issues Does an Eye Lift Address?

Everyone experiences facial aging in different ways and at different paces, but there are certain common aesthetic frustrations that upper and lower eyelid surgeries aim to address. An upper eye lift is meant to reduce sagging skin above the upper eyelids. That sagging skin (and sometimes fat), whether genetic or age-related, gives you “hooded eyelids” or puffy eyelids and makes your eyes appear more tired.

A lower eye lift, on the other hand, is meant to address “bags under the eyes.” Under-eye bags can be caused by protruding pads of fat under your eyes, sagging skin below your eyes, or both, so a lower eyelid surgery will address one or both of these issues to give you a revitalized and well-rested look.

How Common Are Eye Lifts?

You may not hear about eye lifts as often as facelifts, but they’re actually highly common. In fact, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, eyelid surgery was the second most popular cosmetic surgery in 2020, with over 325,000 of these procedures performed in the US that year.

How Long Does an Eye Lift Last?

No surgery or treatment can stop your skin from aging in the future, so for any age-correcting procedure, your results will seem to fade as you develop new aging over the coming years. That is why many of these procedures like facelifts are typically repeated after about ten years to treat these new signs of aging. The good news with an eye lift, however, is that my patients rarely experience enough new aging in this area after surgery to warrant a new surgery, so most eye lift patients only have the procedure once.

Keep in mind, though, that you will still want to take steps to maintain your results for as long as possible. This includes healthy skin care, daily sun protection, and potentially non-surgical skin treatments like laser treatments to reduce mild aging.

How to Get a Minimally Invasive Eye Lift

If you want to give your eyes a brighter, younger appearance without extensive surgery, you’re in luck. I offer my own type of eye lift called Band Aid Eyelid Surgery. This is a minimally invasive variation of the eye lift which I perform in my safe and well-equipped office with the use of gentle numbing instead of general anesthesia. Your Band Aid Eyelid Surgery will be customized to fit your needs, providing natural-looking results with less recovery time than a traditional eyelid surgery.

If you would like to find out if my Band Aid Eyelid Surgery can help you refresh your appearance, schedule a plastic surgery consultation with me, Dr. John LeRoy, today. Follow me on Facebook for more cosmetic surgery tips and insights.

How Much Will My Mini Facelift Cost?

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faceliftFor so many of my patients, a mini facelift is an important change in their lives. It’s an opportunity to restore their confidence and a way to leave daily self-consciousness behind. However, as meaningful as your mini facelift may be, everyone needs to take their budget into account. How much can you expect your mini facelift to cost?

As a double board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in mini facelifts, particularly my Band Aid Mini Facelift, I’m able to guide each patient through this part of the planning process. It’s important to note, though, that there are many factors that will affect your mini facelift cost.

Factors That Affect the Cost of Your Mini Facelift

While cost isn’t the only component of your mini facelift to think about and plan for, it is a part you need to consider. There are several factors that will impact your final cost.

The Type of Mini Facelift You Choose

It’s important to note that mini facelifts aren’t performed the same way by every surgeon. Each plastic surgeon performs a minimally invasive facelift in their own way, and as a result, mini facelifts can vary in price from one surgeon to another.

In my case, I also offer multiple types of mini facelifts. My Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift, for example, is an even less invasive option than my Band Aid Mini Facelift. As a result, the Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift has a lower cost than my Band Aid Mini Facelift because the Band Aid Mini Facelift repairs signs of aging more extensively.

Your Facelift Surgeon

As you consider a mini facelift, you’ll find that there are many plastic surgeons who offer this procedure, and each of those plastic surgeons has a different cost for their mini facelift. It’s important to note that there are reasons some surgeons cost more than others, though. Be sure to choose your plastic surgeon based on experience, results, and specialization, not cost alone.

Additional Surgeries

A mini facelift can be a very effective way to rejuvenate your appearance. In many cases, though, you may have aged in other areas that a mini facelift doesn’t treat. This is why many of my patients choose to combine multiple facial rejuvenation surgeries into one procedure. For example, an especially popular combination is my Band Aid Mini Facelift with my Band Aid Eyelid Surgery to treat sagging facial skin as well as aging around the eyes.

Understandably, combining multiple surgeries will cost more than having one surgery alone. However, it’s a common option because it allows you to enjoy two types of revitalization with one procedure and one recovery period.

Your Surgical Site

Mini facelifts are designed to be minimally invasive versions of traditional facelifts. Some plastic surgeons, though, still perform these procedures using general anesthesia in a hospital operating room. This will cost more overall than a surgery like my Band Aid Mini Facelift which I perform in-office using gentle numbing instead. As an added bonus, using gentle numbing instead of general anesthesia will allow you to recover from your mini facelift in about half the time.

Ultimately, every mini facelift (and every plastic surgery, for that matter) is based on your specific needs and aesthetic goals. To discuss your cosmetic surgery options and the cost you can expect, schedule a Band Aid Mini Facelift consultation today. Be sure to follow me on Facebook for more plastic surgery insights.

Why Eyelid Surgery Is a More Popular Plastic Surgery Than You Realize

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popular eyelid surgeryIt may surprise you to learn that eyelid surgery was the second most popular cosmetic surgery in the US in 2020 according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. It was second only to rhinoplasty or nose surgery. As a double board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in facial rejuvenation procedures, I can confirm that eyelid surgery or blepharoplasty is one of the most frequent surgeries I perform.

Interestingly, though, the average person doesn’t hear about eyelid surgery as often as they hear about other plastic surgeries like facelifts, liposuction, or breast augmentation – all of which were less popular than blepharoplasty in 2020. What makes eyelid surgery so popular for turning back the clock on facial aging and why don’t you hear about it as often? There are several reasons why you probably know more people who have had eyelid surgery than you realize.

Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery Can Treat Several Common Signs of Aging

Cosmetic eyelid surgery, or blepharoplasty, is particularly common because it addresses signs of aging that many people develop at some point. In fact, depending on how it’s performed, this surgery can treat multiple signs of aging at one time.

First, the procedure addresses sagging skin above the upper eyelids. This sagging skin can give your eyes a “hooded” appearance, so they look more closed, more tired, and less friendly. Second, blepharoplasty can reduce sagging skin and lumps under the eyes that combine to create “bags” under your eyes.

These areas of your face age particularly quickly because the skin in these areas is already very thin. As it gets thinner due to natural aging, it’s less able to withstand wrinkling and sagging than your skin in other areas of your face.

Eyelid Surgery Results Are Often Subtle and Natural-Looking

For most patients, their goal with plastic surgery is to look better, brighter, and more youthful without making their results look obvious. While a skilled plastic surgeon can do this for any procedure, eyelid surgery tends to have a particularly discreet result when performed accurately.

My patients often say that after their eyelid surgery, people will tell them, “You look so much more well-rested or younger or happier but I can’t figure out why.” They might just think you’re sleeping better or managing stress better. All anyone will know is that you look wonderful, but they won’t know why. This is especially true for patients who have my Band Aid Eyelid Surgery, a minimally invasive version of this procedure, which is performed in-office with gentle numbing.

Eyelid Surgeries Can Leave Minimal or No Visible Scarring

For some plastic surgeries, the giveaway that a person has had the surgery is the scarring left behind. In the case of eyelid surgery, there is little or no visible scarring to indicate surgery.

For eyelid surgery on your lower eyelids to reduce under-eye bags, I can often make the incision inside the lower eyelid so that it isn’t visible to others. In other cases with lower eyelid surgery and with any upper eyelid surgery, I make precise incisions within the natural folds of the eyelids so the incision lines blend in well, making them difficult to see, especially for anyone who doesn’t know they exist.

This minimized scarring, along with the natural-looking results, makes eyelid surgery particularly discreet plastic surgery, so chances are that you’ve seen many people who have had blepharoplasty, but you didn’t realize it.

How to Experience the Benefits of Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery for Yourself

If you want to give your eyes a more youthful, rested, and welcoming appearance, even if you want to remain private about your surgery, my Band Aid Eyelid Surgery could be the ideal choice for you. With half the recovery time of a traditional blepharoplasty, this procedure is a simple and effective way to get the exceptional and natural-looking results you want.

To find out more, schedule an eyelid surgery consultation with me today at my Atlanta office. In the meantime, follow me on Facebook and Twitter for more cosmetic surgery tips.

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