Miami Beach Plastic Surgery Center and MedSpa

There are various options you could consider starting with the least invasive and progressing to more traditional forms of facial rejuvenation procedures like facelifts, eyelid and forehead lifts. The easiest way to “dip your toe in the water” would involve developing a physician grade skin care program tailored to your type of facial skin and its specific needs. You would meet with a skin care specialist who would select a regimen of high quality products that would involve: 1) exfoliating dead skin 2) replenishing missing ingredients for healthy skin 3)moisturizingyour skin 4) stimulating new healthy skin growth and 5) protecting your skin from the sun’s harmful rays. This program would be combined with a series of facial peels and ultrasound massages to help with the rejuvenation process, without needles and scalpels. After a short time, you would see a significant improvement in the appearance and texture of your skin. It is important to do this with the supervision of a plastic surgeon or dermatologist who works with physician grade skin care products to really obtain an effective result.

The next level of skin rejuvenation involves laser skin resurfacing methods to penetrate the skin’s outer layer and stimulate new, healthy skin care growth from within, while resurfacing and removing older skin cells from the surface. There are various lasers available on the market that accomplish this with minimal down time and discomfort. The most popular of these lasers is the FRAXEL, which usually requires a series of monthly treatments spread out over four months. After the procedure your skin becomes red like a mild sunburn, and then slowly improves over the next week. At the completion of these treatments, your skin will appear tighter, fuller, with less wrinkles and irregular skin discolorations.

Many patients combine the above treatments with a more targeted approach to fine lines and wrinkles with the use of Botox and facial fillers. Botox treatments soften the fine lines around your eyes and forehead, while the facial fillers like Juvaderm and Radiesse diminish the lines around your mouth while adding facial volume to areas depleted from the aging process. These techniques are simple to do, affordable, long-lasting and relatively painless procedures that do require the use of tiny needles. Most patients feel almost no discomfort or pain during these sessions with the prior application of anesthetic creams to the areas to be treated.

I believe you will see a dramatic improvement in your facial appearance that will make you look younger and more refreshed at the completion of these treatments without significant downtime and discomfort.