Summertime is Almost Here

Everyone today wants to look as young as they feel and are more pro-active than generations in the past, are more aware of their health and appearance.
Summer is just a few weeks away and now is the time to visit your cosmetic dermatologist and get those tiny lines and eye bags, neck wrinkles, splotches, even moles and scars taken care of so you can go out in the sunshine and be trim and slim and look better than every before. There are so many great non invasive and effective dermatology procedures available to all of us today that there is no longer any excuse to put off looking younger and more healthy

What is Carboxytherapy

Carboxytherapy is the administration of carbon dioxide [CO2] gas for therapeutic purposes. Carboxytherapy was discovered in the Royal Spas of France in the 1930’s when bathing in the pools of carbon dioxide rich waters was shown to speed wound healing.

Carbon dioxide is naturally present in our bodies at all times and it is essential to the life processes of both animals and plants.  With every breath, we inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.  Plants absorb the carbon dioxide that we exhale and release oxygen back into the atmosphere.

Carboxytherapy is used for the treatment of dark under-eye circles, stretch-marks, cellulite reduction, and non-surgical fat sculpting on the face and the body.  Carboxytherapy can be used to treat the eyelids, face, neck, arms, stomach, buttocks, and legs.

By injecting a small amount of carbon dioxide gas into the area, we are “tricking” the body into increasing the oxygen flow to the area by compelling the red blood cells to pick up all of the excess CO2that we injected so that it can be carried back to the lungs for elimination from the body with the next exhalation.

Exilis

How would you like to get rid of excess fat and tighten your skin fast with no surgery and the treatments are completely safe?  Exilis is the new technology that works with all skin types and patients can see improvement after just one treatment session. Exilis is FDA Approved and can improve skin laxity and appearance of wrinkles, and many patients report a reduction in total fat volume.

 

Thermage vs VelaShape Scientific Reason

Thermage is the best treatment for the loose skin and laxity under the belly button. Here is the scientific reason.

First thermage is FDA approved for skin tightening, if you look at the FDA clearance on Velashape  is indicated for dermal heating, not skin tightening. Thermage is also a stronger machine, working at the highest Mg Hz on the market for a RF device. Thermage is monopolar, so it is able to work deeper into the skin to effect change, thereby penetrating at least 4.2 mm into the skin, while velashape at its max is 1.5mm. Since the Dermis, which is the main collagen structure of your skin is deeper than 1.5 mm it makes more sense to utilize the machine that treats the dermis.

 

 

Thermage or Exilis ?

Exilis is also a radio frequency device, for body shaping.  The difference to you between Exilis and Thermage is that Thermage is a one time treatment and Exilis treatments consist of 4-6 sessions.  So the good news is Exilis is a lot cheaper per treatment approximately $500 vs $4000 for a body area. However after a 5 or 6 treatments, the price differential is not as great. Another advantage with Exilis is that you get to see how your body responds to a radio frequency treatment without risking many thousands of dollars. Perhaps your particular nature of loose skin, wrinkles or excess skin or extra inches of fat is a “good responder” or maybe not.  Some people actually use both devices on different parts of their bodies, plus due to the slightly different shape of the hand pieces of the different devices, one might be more suitable then the other.  Finally Exilis is often used for “spot” reduction. My best advice is find a provider that has both.  New York has at least one Precision Aesthetics.  Precision Aesthetics also has the advantage of being the only New York Thermage Pinnacle and Black Diamond provider, and has the distinction of that award for 4 years running, as well as the first site to offer Exilis.  So if you are in that neck of the woods it makes the decision of finding the best provider pretty easy. Obviously the best isnt the cheapest, but as I said in a previous post, if you were getting surgery would you go to the cheapest surgeon ? Any technician with 4 years experience on Thermage and over a year with Exilis ( thats about as long as its been around) will be your opportunity to get the best results that your body is capable of achieving. Lastly if you are considering one of these treatments for your face, misapplied it could be a disaster. These are powerful devices, certain areas are treated lightly to lift and tighten, other areas are gone over with multiple passes to reduce fat, like a double chin. If not done properly you could literally land up losing critical fat and collagen in areas where you most need it.  It is an art and it takes a lot of experience. Its your face you are better off not doing it at all then risking a bad treatment.