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Dermabrasion

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Welcome to your surgery guide for Dermabrasion. We’ve put together everything you need to know from the very basics to information about finding a doctor and recovering from surgery. The technique takes its origin from ancient Egypt in 1500 B.C. where healers used a form of sandpaper to even out scars. Today the technique [...]

Forehead lift

Monday, March 10th, 2008

As we age, our facial skin loosens and wrinkles, causing drooping brows as well as creases and lines that can make us appear angry, sad, old or tired. The skin begins to lose its elasticity. Sun, wind, and the pull of gravity all affect the face, resulting in frown lines, wrinkling across the forehead, and [...]

SMAS facelift

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

The submuscular aponeurotic system (SMAS) has been steeped in controversy. The goal of our anatomic study was to further clarify the existence of the SMAS. Facelift surgery has undergone a major evolution since Lexer performed the first face lift operation in 1906 and Hollander subsequently reported a case in 1912.1 These pioneering procedures simply involved [...]

Featherlift

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Instead of the invasive, traditional facelift that involves the removal of skin, fat and tissue, the FeatherLift® system uses barbed threads to pull skin tighter without cutting. The Featherlift technique developed in 1996 by Russian father and son cosmetic surgeons Drs. Marlen and Georgi Sulamanidze, involves the use of suture like threads made from a [...]

Aptos Thread Lift

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

New technique has been used for the past 5 years as alternative to the more surgically invasive face-lift . This procedure is used to reduce wrinkles around the throat, neck, brows and cheeks. By the technique of Aptos Lift or Soft Fast Lift, the surgeon uses resolvable anti-drooping suturing threads which are placed (using special [...]