Everyone has their own ideas of beauty, and plastic surgery is all about helping patients tweak their appearance so it better aligns with their idea of beauty. For most people, part of their beauty standard is to look as youthful and energized as they feel. It’s no surprise, then, that so many patients come to my office to find out the best way to rejuvenate their appearance.
If you want to look younger, there are many potential ways to reach that goal. Two popular paths are to use nonsurgical wrinkle treatments or to have a mini facelift like my Band Aid Mini Facelift. How do you know which one of these is the right choice for you? As a double board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in facial rejuvenation, I’m relaying my insights about these two options and tips about how to determine which one is best for you.
Benefits of Nonsurgical Wrinkle Treatments
There are actually several types of nonsurgical treatments designed to reduce wrinkles and help you look younger. The three I offer are neuromodulator injections like Botox® and Dysport®, facial filler injections like Restylane® and Juvederm®, and laser treatments like my Band Aid Laser Skin Resurfacing.
Each of these procedures has its own unique purposes. Botox® and Dysport® specifically target wrinkles in the upper face caused by repeated facial expressions, like crow’s feet, frown lines, and forehead creases. Facial fillers are better for wrinkles that come from a loss in skin volume as you age, like smile lines (also called nasolabial folds), vertical lines above the upper lip, and others. Finally, Band Aid Laser Skin Resurfacing addresses fine lines and wrinkles while also reducing sun damage such as age spots, improving skin texture, rebuilding collagen, and offering mild skin tightening.
Benefits of a Band Aid Mini Facelift
A mini facelift like my Band Aid Mini Facelift is a less invasive version of the traditional facelift. Using advanced techniques, I’m able to remove excess sagging skin and reposition facial tissue in a more youthful yet natural-looking way, all using gentle numbing in my medical office. You’re awake and comfortable for the entire procedure, avoiding the added recovery time that comes from general anesthesia.
A Band Aid Mini Facelift offers the precise and artful facial rejuvenation that can only come from a surgery by a skilled board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in facial rejuvenation. At the same time, it keeps your post-surgical downtime to a minimum, so most patients can go back to work in half the time it would take to recover from a traditional facelift.
How Do You Know if You’re a Fit for Nonsurgical Wrinkle Treatments or a Mini Facelift?
If you aren’t sure whether nonsurgical wrinkle treatments or a Band Aid Mini Facelift is the best way to rejuvenate your look, the short answer is to schedule a consultation with a board-certified plastic surgeon. I’ll be able to discuss your goals, examine your facial aging, and recommend the best option to make your vision a reality. However, there are a few tips that can help you anticipate which path may be best for you:
No matter where you are in your aging process or what your cosmetic goals may be, I’m here to help. Schedule a facial rejuvenation consultation with me, Dr. John L. LeRoy, to discuss the best way to get the results you want. Be sure to also follow me on Facebook and Twitter for more cosmetic tips.
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In 2020, liposuction was the #1 most popular plastic surgery in the US according to The Aesthetic Society. The procedure is an exceptional way to contour precise areas of your physique and fine-tune the work you’ve already done with exercising and eating healthy. Today, it’s often performed as a minimally invasive surgery, so you get the contouring you want with minimal recovery time.
Like any medical procedure, though, liposuction surgery has come a long way from its beginnings. To give you a better understanding of this surgery and how advanced it has become, let’s take a journey back through the history and evolution of liposuction.
The Early Days
The idea of surgical fat removal was first introduced in the 1920s by a French surgeon named Charles Dujarier. The procedure was unreliable, though, so it didn’t begin growing in popularity until the 1970s when Drs. Arpad and Giorgio Fischer, working in Italy at the time, developed more modern and reliable techniques for the procedure.
Using Fluid in Liposuction
In 1982, a French surgeon named Dr. Yves-Gerard Illouz introduced what he called the “Illouz Method” for liposuction. This was the first version of the surgery that involved injecting fluid into the treatment area to make it easier to break up and remove the fat cells. This was one more step toward the manageable version of liposuction surgery that we have today.
Tumescent Liposuction
Most liposuction procedures today use a method called tumescent liposuction, which was developed and introduced by a California surgeon named Dr. Jeffrey Klein. The procedure involves injecting fluid into the treatment area as in the Illouz Method, but it uses a more advanced fluid called tumescent fluid.
Tumescent fluid is a mixture of lidocaine, saline, and epinephrine. While it plumps and firms the fat to make it easier to remove, this fluid also improves your post-surgery comfort in addition to constricting your blood vessels in the area to reduce bleeding. Overall, tumescent fluid makes liposuction easier to perform with consistently strong results and it makes your recovery time easier.
Band Aid Liposuction
As a double board-certified plastic surgeon, I have a passion for creating exceptional cosmetic results for my patients while keeping recovery time to a minimum. With that goal, I created my unique Band Aid Liposuction.
Band Aid Liposuction uses minimally invasive techniques to remove small bulges of unwanted fat in-office using gentle numbing rather than general anesthesia. The recovery time is about half of what it would be for traditional liposuction, getting you back on your feet and enjoying your results more quickly.
Getting Your Body Contouring Results with Less Recovery Time
If you have small areas of unwanted fat you want to remove, whether they’re on your arms, legs, flanks, abdomen, “double chin,” or other areas, schedule a liposuction consultation today with me, Dr. John LeRoy, to learn more about my Band Aid Liposuction surgery. In the meantime, enjoy more plastic surgery news and tips when you follow me on Facebook and Twitter.
For decades, I have been known not only as a double board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in facial rejuvenation but also as the innovator of my Band Aid Mini Facelift. This minimally invasive facelift surgery is designed and customized to give each patient natural-looking yet youthful results. Because I use minimally invasive techniques and perform the procedure in-office with gentle numbing rather than in an operating room with general anesthesia, the Band Aid Mini Facelift only requires about half the recovery time of a traditional facelift.
In recent years, though, I have also been serving patients who want an even less invasive and more subtle procedure with my Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift. Essentially, if a Band Aid Mini Facelift is half as invasive and requires half the downtime of a traditional facelift, the Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift cuts this reduced downtime in half yet again.
Are you a better candidate for a Band Aid Mini Facelift or a Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift? The difference between these two procedures comes down to the amount of aging correction you need and want from your surgery. Get a more in-depth view of the Band Aid Mini Facelift vs. the Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift and why I developed the Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift in my video below.
Are you a better fit for the Band Aid Mini Facelift or the Band Aid Micro Mini Facelift? To find out, schedule a facial rejuvenation consultation with me, Dr. John LeRoy in Atlanta. I’ll be able to assess and discuss your needs and recommend the ideal procedure or treatment plan to give you the youthful look you want. Remember to also follow me on Facebook and Twitter for more plastic surgery insights.