Aesthetic Medicine

A more youthful version of yourself can easily be accomplished without major surgery! We can restore a more youthful face depending on what we wish to change or restore. The facial rejuvenation is more easily accomplished if we divide the face in three parts: the upper, mid face and lower face.

The upper face can be improved by focusing on the eye brows, upper and lower eye lids and crows feet. The lateral eye brows can be elevated with a simple temporal stitch to give gentle lift and open up the eyes. The upper eye lids can be tightened using an ablative laser or a simple blepharoplasty. The puffy lower eye lids (festoons) can be easily eliminated with a percutaneous laser in 15 minutes without any incisions. The fat under the lower eyelids is addressed with a few bursts of the LipoTherme laser beam. The crow’s feet are greatly reduced or eliminated with the skin tightening LipoTherme laser or the Erbium ablative laser or both.

The middle face is not always treated with a full face lift. I use the laser to tighten the facial tissue from the inside followed by a laser to rejuvenate the skin from the outside. The laser can also remove wrinkles and uneven skin pigmentation. Here we can also use the patients own fat to fill in the larger wrinkles resistant to the laser. The mokers lines are also treated by placing the laser beam directly below the skin of the upper lip. Lip augmentation can also be performed with fat transfer or a lip implant. Silhouette sutures, used in Europe to restore the mid face, are placed in less than an hour with minimal down time. The silhouette sutures can be used in combination with the laser that tightens the skin from the inside and a very small and barely visible mini face lift incision.

The lower face can be rejuvenated with liposuction of the neck, chin jowls with the lipolaser not only to melt away the fat but also to tighten the skin. If wrinkles are very pronounced, a small and barely visible incision is made behind the ear to give a beautiful neck lift.

Some people do require a full face lift, which involves gentle restoration of the upper, mid and lower face. These procedures are performed in our surgery center under local anesthesia and, if needed, under conscious sedation. The patient has minimal down time and a quick recovery. All procedures are tailored to the individual needs of the patient.