Low Energy
What is Low Energy?
Low energy is the state of easy tiredness or exhaustion.
What are the causes of low energy?
- not enough exercise, inadequate sleep, and unhealthy eating.
- Diseases of the heart liver, kidney, blood, lungs, brain
- Mood disorder
- Neurological conditions
- Hormone imbalance
- Medications
- Aging
What are the treatments for low energy?
Treatments
- Products
- Oral Medicine
Menopause
What is Menopause?
Menopause is the cessation of menstrual periods for at least twelve months. Menopause generally on the average around the fifth decade of women’s lives. The period preceding menopause is called perimenopause. Both menopause and perimenopause can have significant symptoms and signs of aging.
- Feeling tired and worn out. Not enough energy.
- Difficulty with handling stress
- Difficulty sleeping well
- Loss of concentration, difficulty with memory, or brain fog.
- Depressed mood
- Low immunity
- Easily fatigued with exercise
- Feeling cold easily
- Food craving
- Menstrual cramps, heavy bleeding, or hot flush
- Decreased libido or sexual satisfaction
- Gaining weight/fat. Poor muscle tone
- Wrinkled skin/Muscle/joint sore/Weak bones/
- Increased risks for heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and cancer?
What causes menopause?
The most common reason is the natural aging process whereby female hormones begin to decline. Occasional other causes include surgery and medical treatments which can bring about premature menopause.
What are the treatments for menopause?
Treatments
- Products
- Oral Medicine
Aging Hands
What are Aging Hands?
Most people conscious of looking young focus on their faces. By doing so, they tend to neglect other age-telling areas of their body. One of which, the hands, has many noticeable signs of aging, such as dark spots, sagginess, and roughness.
With time, aging hands show more and more lines and wrinkles, translucency, pigmentation, laxity, loss of fat, muscle, and even bone, with an increasing prominence of veins and tendons.
What are the causes of aging hands?
The most common causes of aging hands include:
Intrinsic and extrinsic reasons:
- Loss of volume
- Lines and wrinkles
- Brown spots
- Spider / varicose veins
What are the treatments for aging hands?
Body Contouring
What is Body Contouring?
Our body is ever changing. There are external factors such as diet, activity level and environmental factors (pollutions and sun exposure); and internal factors such as aging, hormonal changes, chemical imbalance, and malnutrition. To improve undesirable shaping on parts of your body, the best thing to do is to understand the exact causes.
What are the causes of body contouring?
External factors such as diet, activity level and environmental factors (pollutions and sun exposure); and internal factors such as aging, hormonal changes, chemical imbalance, and malnutrition.
What are the treatments for body contouring?
Treatments
- Body
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Weight Loss
- Products
Buttock Augmentation
What is Buttock Augmentation?
Buttock augmentation enhances and shapes the buttock area with fat grafting or with buttock implants. The buttocks become firmer, rounder, lifted, and more sensual. When combined with liposuction with fat grafting, buttock augmentation with body liposuction can contour the body shape to become more proportional, youthful, curvaceous, and feminine. Brazilian Butt Lift is the combination of liposuction of body areas and fat grafting to the buttocks area.
What are the causes of small buttocks?
- Small, flat, or unshapely buttocks.
- Early sagging buttocks
What are the treatments for buttock augmentation?
Treatments
- Body
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
Cellulite
What is Cellulite?
Cellulite is caused by fat pushing against the connective tissue, making the skin above it appear to be puckered. Though it isn’t harmful, it is more common among women than men. Factors include: poor diet, slow metabolism, sedentary lifestyles, hormone changes, dehydration, total body fat, and thickness and color of your skin.
What are the causes of cellulite?
Poor diet, slow metabolism, sedentary lifestyles, hormone changes, dehydration, total body fat, and thickness and color of your skin.
What are the treatments for cellulite?
Treatments
- Body
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
Excessive Sweating
What is Excessive Sweating?
Our body’s natural method for temperature adjustment is to sweat. However, around 3% of the world’s population is affected by excessive sweating, also called hyperhidrosis. It can create both discomfort and anxiety.
What are the causes of excessive sweating?
Overactive nerves and stimulated sweat glands remain the most common reason for excessive sweating. Infrequently, other factors can also cause this condition.
What are the treatment options for Excessive Sweating?
TREATMENTS
Fat Removal
What is Fat Removal?
Fat Removal is a non-surgical treatment to permanently destroy unwanted fat.
What are the causes of unwanted fat?
The stubborn fat that won’t respond to diet or exercise can be a nuisance. It accumulates over time all over your body (face, belly, waist, inner/outer thighs and back). And the common causes are: sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, heredity, aging, and hormonal fluctuations.
What are the treatments for fat removal?
Flabby Arms
What are Flabby Arms?
An excess of fat causes arm flabbiness. As we age, hormone fluctuations can result in a decrease in metabolism, which means we burn off fewer calories throughout the day. A lack of exercise combined with less calories burned creates a significant risk of weight gain. And gravity sure does not help to keep the arms tight.
What are the causes of Flabby Arms?
- Excess fat
- Skin laxity
- Loss of volume
What are the treatments of Flabby Arms?
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- Body
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Body
Hair Removal
What is Hair Removal?
Unwanted hair affects one’s appearance and can create discomforts. Many women suffer from unwanted hair due to heredity, medication, or hormonal imbalance. But shaving those wanted hair can cause pseudofolliculitis barbae or razor bumps, which can be quite uncomfortable and even painful. The results are also rather temporary.
What are the causes of unwanted hair?
- Heredity
- Medication
- Hormonal imbalance
TREATMENTS
- Non-Surgical
- Non-Surgical
Leg Slimming
What is Leg Slimming?
Leg slimming refers to treatments to reduce bulging thighs and calves to recreate long thin legs. Wide thighs and calves create the appearance of chubby legs.
The shape of the legs is affected by four parts: the looseness of the skin, the amount of fat, and the muscle mass/type, and the bony structure. The amount of fat you have and the looseness of your skin is often caused by weight gain, hormonal changes, age, and the lack of exercise. In combination, our legs look flabbier and less toned than it was when we were younger. The look of cellulite can also be quite unflattering.
What are the causes of chubby legs?
The shape of the legs is affected by four parts: the looseness of the skin, the amount of fat, and the muscle mass/type, and the bony structure. The amount of fat you have and the looseness of your skin is often caused by weight gain, hormonal changes, age, and the lack of exercise. In combination, our legs look flabbier and less toned than it was when we were younger. The look of cellulite can also be quite unflattering.
What are the treatments for leg slimming?
TREATMENTS
- Non-Surgical
Loose Skin
What is Loose Skin?
Loose skin refers to the loss of elasticity, firmness, tautness, leading to flabby skin. Solutions which counter this skin laxity are called skin tightening face treatments.
What causes loose skin?
Many factors contribute to the looseness of our skin: age, sun damage, gravity, genetics, weight changes, slowing of skin cells renewal, and the breaking down of the skin’s underlying structure. There are things that you can do for yourself to prevent or reduce the appearance of loose skin, such as applying sunscreen more often or using the right kind of moisturizer. However, sometimes the best solution is to have treatments done.
What are the treatments for loose skin?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Sagging Tummy
What is Sagging Tummy?
An abdomen that is protruding, loose or sagging is a concern to many. Even those with normal body weight and proportion can also develop a sagging tummy.
What causes sagging tummy?
Common causes are heredity, aging, pregnancy, prior surgery, and weight loss/gain. Exercise and healthy diets can only do so much. Sometimes we have to depend on treatments to help with the removal of excess fat/skin, and the restoration of the separated or weakened surrounding muscles.
The best treatment relies on a careful diagnosis of the anatomical causes of sagging tummy.
What are the treatments for saggy tummy?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Spider Veins
What are spider veins?
Varicose veins are those large, raised swollen and twisted blood vessels. Spider veins are smaller and redder, more purple, and bluer versions of the varicose veins. Both are very visible through the skin. Varicose veins are more common on the legs; spider veins are more common on the legs and face. There are many causes to varicose and spider veins: heredity, pressure from standing too long, obesity, hormonal influences, the use of birth control pills, postmenopausal hormonal replacements, blood clot history, conditions when increased pressure is applied to the abdomen (tumors, constipation, or garments like corsets), trauma or injury to the skin, previous vein surgery, or exposure to UV rays.
Symptoms of both veins include tiredness, pain, restlessness, throbbing, burning, tingling or heaviness in the legs. As for spider veins on the face, a common symptom is itchiness. They develop more often in women than in men, and also increase in frequency with age.
What are the causes of spider veins?
There are many causes to varicose and spider veins: heredity, pressure from standing too long, obesity, hormonal influences, the use of birth control pills, postmenopausal hormonal replacements, blood clot history, conditions when increased pressure is applied to the abdomen (tumors, constipation, or garments like corsets), trauma or injury to the skin, previous vein surgery, or exposure to UV rays
What are the treatments for spider veins?
TREATMENTS
- Non-Surgical
Stretch Marks
What are Stretch Marks?
Caused by a broken down dermis, stretch marks are notorious for troubling both men and women. Factors include skin tone, age, sun damage, diet, weight gain/loss, and pregnancy.
These marks are linear narrow streaks on the skin, typically found around the thighs, buttocks, breast and upper arms. These marks actually represent a form of scarring in the dermis of the skin. Early stretch marks are pink and slight raised, whereas late ones often are white and slightly depressed.
What causes stretch marks?
The most common cause of stretch mark is due to the mechanical stretching of the skin, which leads to rupture of connective tissue of the dermis, creating a scar-like process. Mechanical stretching happens during pregnancy, weight changes, and even excessive weight lifting. Other causes include adolescent growth, genetics, and steroid use.
What are the treatments for stretch marks?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Tattoo Removal
What is tattoo removal?
Tattoos are permanent. Or are they? Sometimes regrets or mistakes can happen and we can help.
What causes a tattoo?
Tattoos can be done by professionals or amateurs. Professional tattoos are generally harder to remove.
What are the treatments for tattoo removal?
TREATMENTS
- Non-Surgical
Breast Augmentation
What is breast augmentation?
Breast Augmentation inserts implants to create a natural appearance of fuller breasts in both standing and supine positions.
What are the causes of small breasts?
Genetic disorder and hormonal problems can cause breasts to not fully develop. Sometimes it is just an appearance issue. However, it can also potentially create future dilemmas, such as breastfeeding difficulties. Hormonal treatments can help if the cause is hormonal. But for the genetic disorder, only certain treatments can help.
Want are the treatments for breast augmentation?
Treatments
- Breasts
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Surgical
Breast Lift
What is Breast Lift?
Breast Lift removes breast skin to raise up the breast tissue and nipple positions.
What are the causes of saggy breasts?
Cooper’s ligaments, the connective tissues that provide perkiness, stretches out as you age and through gravity. They are made of collagen and elastin, which breaks down through time. In addition, certain tissues are gradually reduced by fat as you age. As we know it, fat is much more likely to droop. Since our breasts are made up of fat and not muscles, exercise can only do so much to help.
What are the treatments for breast lift?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
Cheeks
What are saggy cheeks?
Cheeks are the prominences on the central part of the face. Genetically flat or aging cheeks present a flat or unattractive face.
What are the causes of saggy cheeks?
Aging causes the muscle on the face to weaken, fat lose, and the skin to sag. As such, cheeks start to sag and become more flat. The nasolabial folds become deeper. Our lower eyelids lengthened. The overall effect is an older and more sunken, tired face.
What are the treatment options for cheeks?
- Face
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
Chin
What is a Weak Chin?
Our chin affects the overall look and proportion of our face. Common concerns for the chin includes: receding chin, small chin, out of proportion to the face, lack of definition, and dimpling.
What causes a weak chin?
Most common causes of small or receding chin include:
On the side view:
- Receding bony chin
- Dental occlusive condition
- Double chin from fat deposit
- Neck muscle laxity
- Loose skin
- Neck cartilage located too high
- Over projected nose
On the front view:
- Narrow bony chin
- Chubby face
- Wide face
- Jowls
What are the treatments for a weak chin?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Dark Eye Circles
What are dark eye circles?
A lot of us are familiar with that panda-like shadow underneath our eyes. Dark eye circles are periorbital hyperpigmentation, seen as dark areas around the eyelids.
What causes dark eye circles?
The causes of dark eye circles are multiple:
- Genetics: some individuals have a curved band of dark pigmentation on the lower eyelid skin
- Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation: irregular pigmentation due to eyelid skin inflammation and skin textural changes
- Capillaries and veins: weakened capillaries in the presence of thinning skin are most likely the most common cause of dark eye circles
- Shadows: depression caused by tear troughs can create shadows, thus an illusion of darkness.
- Other reasons: thin skin, dryness, aging, hormonal changes, nutritional status, seasonal allergy, UV radiation are all other miscellaneous causes as well.
What are the treatments for dark eye circles?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Double Chin
What is a Double Chin?
Double chin is the appearance of a chubby upper neck. Double creates the illusion of lack of definition of the jawline, shortened face, round face, or even a receding chin.
What are the causes of a double chin?
Most commonly, as most people believe, a double chin is due to fat deposit. But careful diagnosis demonstrates that there are five causes of double chin. And understanding and diagnosing the correct cause or causes are the key to proper and optimal treatment option selections.
- Fat deposit: This is the most common cause of double chin, especially in chubby younger persons. Both fat superficial and deep to the neck muscle platysmal may contribute to the neck chubbiness.
- Muscle enlargement or laxity: This is often a frequent and hidden component of double chin. The neck muscle prominence may reveal itself after the fat has been treated. This neck muscle platysma may be easily demonstrated by clinching one’s teeth hard and the corners of the lips turned downward.
- Receding chin: This is a very common finding whereby the shortened chin will exaggerate the look of the chubby neck. Reviewing one’s lateral profile of the chin relative to the lip easily demonstrates any degree of chin deficiency. Receding chin occurs in both young people genetically and in older people with aging as the chin bone atrophies.
- Skin redundancy: Loose skin creates skin redundancy of the neck, resulting in poor definition of the chin neck curvature. Skin laxity occurs progressively, associated with thinness of skin, loss of skin fat, and looseness of muscle.
- A high position of neck cartilage: In certain genetic predisposition, the neck cartilage can be very high. The anatomical distance between the chin and the neck cartilage is thus shortened, creating the appearance of a very blunt neck.
- Combination of the above anatomy: All of the above factors can be associated together in one way or another.
What are the treatments for a double chin?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Droopy Eyelids
What are Droopy Eyelids?
Droopy eyelids create an illusion of low hanging brows, sleepiness, eyelid puffiness, and excessive upper eyelid skin. Frown lines and crow’s feet are often associated as well. Often, excess eyelid skin is due to both droopy brows and eyelid skin.
What causes droopy eyelids?
Both genetics and aging can cause droopy brows. Some people are born with low hanging brows and eyelids. Aging causes skin laxity, persistent muscle contraction, fat absorption, and even bone absorption, all of which further exacerbate the descent of the brows and eyelids.
What are the treatments for droopy eyelids?
TREATMENTS
FACE
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Eye Bags
What are eye bags?
Eye bags can affect one’s appearance, making one look more tired and older. The puffiness and swelling of the area underneath the eyes are common as one age. The tissues around the eyes, particularly the supporting muscles, weaken over time. And fluid can accumulate to create more swelling. The skin also becomes loose and thus making everything more apparent.
True under-eye bags are outpouchings of the orbital fat in the lower eyelids.
In the younger population, eye bags are often solely the results of these outpouchings, with or without tear troughs. Whereas in the older population, these orbital fat outpouchings are often associated with lax skin, muscle, and tear troughs, and malar festoons.
Some eye bags, however, are not real. These “fake” eye bags exist, and thus a careful diagnosis of eye bag is critical to the proper selection of treatment options.
One common condition of “fake” eye bags is hypertrophic or enlarged pretarsal muscle under the eyelash in the lower eyelids, often becoming exaggerated when smiling.
Another “fake” eye bags is tear trough deformity. Tear trough is a sunken trough area of volume loss below the lower eyelids. Tear trough is often associated with eye bags.
Another “fake” eye bags are malar festoons, which are localized squishy swelling on the cheek bone below the orbits.
What are the causes of eye bags?
In the younger patients, eye bag is caused by genetically outpouching of orbital fat or the flatness of the cheek bone relative to the orbital bone.
In the older population, eye bags are caused by the weakening of orbital septum and the increasing descent and flattening of cheeks. The orbital septum is a fibrous wall which prevents fat herniation, but as we get old, this wall becomes weaker and allows more and more fat to bulge outward.
What are the treatments for eye bags?
TREATMENTS
FACE
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Face Contouring
What is Face Contouring?
Our face is generally the first thing that people see when they look at us. Thus, it is important to have a balanced face. From forehead to chin, there are many areas that can affect the overall look of our face. Whether it’s genetic or age, no one wants to have a saggy/droopy, flat and disproportionate face.
What are the causes for facial contouring?
Harmony of the face is determined by the facial balance of the aesthetic proportions of the vertical fifths and the horizontal thirds of the face, along with the relationship among the eyes, nose, cheek, and lips.
What are the treatments for face contouring?
TREATMENTS
FACE
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Fat Removal
What is Fat Removal?
Fat Removal is a non-surgical treatment to permanently destroy unwanted fat.
What are the causes of unwanted fat?
The stubborn fat that won’t respond to diet or exercise can be a nuisance. It accumulates over time all over your body (face, belly, waist, inner/outer thighs and back). And the common causes are: sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, heredity, aging, and hormonal fluctuations.
What are the treatments for fat removal?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Lips
What are thin lips?
While it is not a health condition, having thin lips can make a person highly self-conscious. With aging, thin lips are also associated with perioral wrinkles, downward corners of the mouth, and loss of lip volume and shape.
Natural and full lips consider the following aesthetics:
- Red lips shape and volume
- White lips shape and volume
- Borders between the red and white lips
- Cupids bow and philtrum
- Corner of the mouth
What causes thin lips?
Thin lips are caused by a number of reasons:
- Genetics: Some people are naturally born with thin lips
- Aging: Over time, loss of both quality and quantity of connective tissue components elastin and collagen produce thin lips.
- Sun exposure: frequent, prolonged, and repeated solar irradiation accelerate the natural changes to the connective tissue components, resulting in premature wrinkling and loss of volume.
- Smoking: Another frequent but completely preventable source of accelerated aging is tobacco smoking. Lines around the mouth can be a sign of this pollutant.
What are the treatments for thin lips?
TREATMENTS
FACE
- Non-Surgical
Loose Skin
What is Loose Skin?
Loose skin refers to the loss of elasticity, firmness, tautness, leading to flabby skin. Solutions which counter this skin laxity are called skin tightening face treatments.
What causes loose skin?
Many factors contribute to the looseness of our skin: age, sun damage, gravity, genetics, weight changes, slowing of skin cells renewal, and the breaking down of the skin’s underlying structure. There are things that you can do for yourself to prevent or reduce the appearance of loose skin, such as applying sunscreen more often or using the right kind of moisturizer. However, sometimes the best solution is to have treatments done.
What are the treatments for loose skin?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Nose
What is a Shapely Nose?
Many are unhappy with the nose they were born with or how age has changed it. Some are bothered by the distorted nose shape cause by Injuries. Some simply desire better breathing. The size and shape of the nose can also impact a person’s appearance due to its central location on the face.
The various concerns of the nose revolve around the shape, size, position, and even the function of the nose:
- Flat nose
- Bumpy nose
- Wide nose
- Droop nose
- Asymmetric nose
- Better breathing
What are the common causes of a shapely nose?
The causes are anatomical relationship of the shape, size, and position of the underlying bone and cartilage, and the thickness of the overlying skin.
Furthermore, other structures on the face also influenced the perception of the nose. For example, a weak chin can create an illusion of a larger nose.
What are the treatments for a shapely nose?
TREATMENTS
FACE
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Hair Loss
What is Hair Loss?
Hair thinning and eventual hair loss can be bothersome for both men and women. For men, male pattern hair loss begins at the hairline and the crown of the scalp. For the gentlemen, It can be devastating to be combing your hair and finding out there is a bald patch. For women, female pattern hair loss at the center of the scalp, without the receding hairline most of the time. For the ladies, significant thinning reduces one’s sense of femininity.
What causes hair loss?
The most common cause of hair loss in both men and women is due to androgenetic alopecia. In this case, genetically predisposed individuals are particularly sensitive to a testosterone derivative called dihydrotestesterone, or DHT. This hormone retards hair growth and metabolism, slowing causing progressively more hair to die out.
Other causes of hair loss include hormonal conditions (pregnancy, thyroid disorder, polycystic ovary, menopause), anemia, autoimmune disorder, quick weight loss, medications, stress, chemicals, trauma, and local skin diseases.
What are the treatments for hair loss?
TREATMENTS
Hair Removal
What is Hair Removal?
Unwanted hair affects one’s appearance and can create discomfort. Many women suffer from unwanted hair due to heredity, medication, or hormonal imbalance. But shaving the hair can cause pseudofolliculitis barbae or razor bumps, which can be quite uncomfortable and even painful. The results are also rather temporary.
What are the causes of unwanted hair?
- Heredity
- Medication
- Hormonal imbalance
What are the treatments for hair removal?
TREATMENTS
Male Enhancement
What is male enhancement?
Sexual wellness in men refers to male penile enhancement.
In men, decreased sexual function in men may be associated with:
- Urinary incontinence
- Decreased girth
- Decreased erection
- Decreased sexual desire
- Decreased stamina, sensation and pleasure
- Decreased orgasm
What are the treatments for male enhancement?
TREATMENTS
- Sexual Wellness
- Non-Surgical
- Products
Vaginal Rejuvenation
What is Vaginal Rejuvenation?
Sexual wellness in women refers to female vaginal rejuvenation.
In women, decreased sexual function in women may be associated with:
- Decreased sexual function
- Urinary incontinence
- Vaginal dryness
- Decreased sexual desire
- Decreased stamina, sensation and pleasure
- Decreased orgasm
What are the treatments for male enhancement?
TREATMENTS
- Sexual Wellness
- Non-Surgical
- Products
Acne
What is Acne?
Acne presents itself in various ways as whiteheads, blackheads, pimples and/or cystic acne. The complications of acne include pigmentation, redness, textural changes, scar, and contour changes.
What causes acne?
Four factors create acne: sebum production, dead skin cells, clogged pores, and bacteria. It can happen anywhere from your face, neck, back to your chest. Excess amount of sebum, combined with dead skin buildup, can often clog pores. The clogged pore created serves as an environment where the bacteria loves. Then when bacteria infects that environment, inflammation occurs.
What are the treatments for acne?
TREATMENTS
Non-Surgical
Acne Scars
What is Acne Scar?
Three main types of acne scar are classified:
- Ice pick scar: This type of scar has vertical depth and measures less than 2mm wide
- Rolling scar: This type of scar has shallow borders and measures 4 to 5 mm wide.
- Boxcar Scar: This type of scar has sharply demarcated borders and 1.5 to 4mm wide.
Acne is not only trouble itself. After it disappears, it can also leave scars behind.
What causes acne scar?
Acne scar is the textural change and volume loss as results of acne inflammation.
What are the treatments for acne scar?
TREATMENTS
Brown Spots
What are Brown Spots?
Pigmentation means the coloring and tone of your skin. Special cells called melanocytes creates melanin, which is how your skin gets its color or pigment. When the melanocyte cells become damaged or unhealthy, it affects the melanin production, causing one to have lighter or darker skin. Certain skin disorders can also cause patches of the skin to discolor. Some affects the pigment of the whole body. The discoloration can be both unsightly and uncomfortable to live with.
There are different types of benign brown spots. The unattractive and stubborn melasma has three main causes: genetics, age and sun exposure. There are also other factors that might contribute, such as stress, hormone, malnutrition, and weakened liver function. There are skincare products that you can use to help gradually diminish the brown spots. However, if one can combine it with other treatments, effectively getting rid of it in a considerably short time would be possible.
What are the causes of brown spots?
Causes of benign brow spots include: genetics, inflammation, age, sun exposure, stress, hormone, malnutrition, and weakened liver function.
What are the treatments for brown spots?
Treatments
Cellulite
What is Cellulite?
Cellulite is caused by fat pushing against the connective tissue, making the skin above it appear to be puckered. Though it isn’t harmful, it is more common among women than men. Factors include: poor diet, slow metabolism, sedentary lifestyles, hormone changes, dehydration, total body fat, and thickness and color of your skin.
What are the causes of cellulite?
Poor diet, slow metabolism, sedentary lifestyles, hormone changes, dehydration, total body fat, and thickness and color of your skin.
What are the treatments for cellulite?
Dry skin
What is dry skin?
Dry skin may cause dull-looking or rough-feeling skin. The scaliness, wrinkles and fine lines produced can be unsightly and the itchiness and uneven tightness can be uncomfortable. Among the most needed skin improvement treatment today is hydration. This article identifies the frequent causes of dry skin, suggests simple solutions and introduces advanced products and treatment solutions. Before following any of the suggested solutions, consult your facial medical specialist. Consider in-office treatments, especially for invasive procedures, for healthier, well-hydrated skin.
What are the causes of dry skin?
- Inadequate Micronutrient
- Excessive UV Light
- Aggressive Cleansers
- Dry Weather and Winter
- Inadequate Desquamation
- Inadequate Skin Barrier
- Inadequate Penetration of Products into Skin
What are the treatments for dry skin?
- Anti-Aging
- Non-Surgical
- Skin
- Non-Surgical
- Products
Fat Removal
What is Fat Removal?
Fat Removal is a non-surgical treatment to permanently destroy unwanted fat.
What are the causes of unwanted fat?
The stubborn fat that won’t respond to diet or exercise can be a nuisance. It accumulates over time all over your body (face, belly, waist, inner/outer thighs and back). And the common causes are: sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, heredity, aging, and hormonal fluctuations.
What are the treatments for fat removal?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Hair Removal
What is Hair Removal?
Unwanted hair affects one’s appearance and can create discomforts. Many women suffer from unwanted hair due to heredity, medication, or hormonal imbalance. But shaving those wanted hair can cause pseudofolliculitis barbae or razor bumps, which can be quite uncomfortable and even painful. The results are also rather temporary.
What are the causes of unwanted hair?
- Heredity
- Medication
- Hormonal imbalance
TREATMENTS
- Non-Surgical
- Non-Surgical
Hyperpigmentation
What is hyperpigmentation?
Pigmentation means the coloring and tone of your skin. Special cells called melanocytes creates melanin, which is how your skin gets its color or pigment. When the melanocyte cells become damaged or unhealthy, it affects the melanin production, causing one to have lighter or darker skin. Certain skin disorders can also cause patches of the skin to discolor. Some affects the pigment of the whole body. The discoloration can be both unsightly and uncomfortable to live with.
Hyperpigmentation refers to conditions with darkened skin areas.
What are the causes of hyperpigmentation?
Two of the most common conditions of hyperpigmentation are melasma and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation(PIH).
Melasma can be can be caused by hormone conditions, pregnancy, menopause, low thyroid function, use of birth control pills, hormones, or photosensitizing drugs, frequent use of fragrant cosmetics.
Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation can be caused by any skin inflammation such as acne and use of aggressive skin products, cosmetic laser, or peels.
What are the treatment options for hyperpigmentation?
- Anti-Aging
- Non-Surgical
- Skin
- Non-Surgical
- Products
Loose Skin
What is Loose Skin?
Loose skin refers to the loss of elasticity, firmness, tautness, leading to flabby skin. Solutions which counter this skin laxity are called skin tightening face treatments.
What causes loose skin?
Many factors contribute to the looseness of our skin: age, sun damage, gravity, genetics, weight changes, slowing of skin cells renewal, and the breaking down of the skin’s underlying structure. There are things that you can do for yourself to prevent or reduce the appearance of loose skin, such as applying sunscreen more often or using the right kind of moisturizer. However, sometimes the best solution is to have treatments done.
What are the treatments for loose skin?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Melasma
What is melasma?
Imagine the following scenario. You have just given birth to your lovely baby and now you noticed that you can’t lose the extra fat and your skin tone especially on your cheeks is not as even or as bright as before.
You may have melasma now, the so called “mask of pregnancy’.
For your information, this melasma condition is an acquired hyperpigmentation disorder which often presents as symmetrical but irregular brownish patches with cloud like and diffuse pigmentation on the face around the cheeks, forehead, temples and even the lips areas.
Many women of Asian descent or darker skin type develop this unsightly pigmentation. While there may be a genetic deposition, the true causes of melasma remain unclear.
What are the causes of melasma?
There are many well known factors associated with melasma. The closest connection is with hormones. Hormonal conditions accompanying the development of melasma include pregnancy, as previously mentioned, menopause, and low thyroid function.
Melasma is also known to be associated with use of certain medications such as birth control pills, hormones, or photosensitizing drugs. Individuals who frequently use fragrant cosmetics may also develop more melasma. In my experience, patients with low antioxidants in their diet also seem to develop more melasma as well.
Certain other factors definitive worsen melasma. Sun light exposure, for example, significantly worsens the condition. Over the years, I have known numerous patients with melasma which got much worse after their vacation in sunny places during the summer. And indeed, in my experience, any inflammation which results in excessive or prolonged redness also exacerbates melasma as well.
Melasma is the most stubborn pigmentation of all. Melasma in the superficial layer of the skin called epidermis is much easier to treat, while melasma in the deeper layer called the dermis is much more difficult to improve. As we shall discuss later, treatment rely on state-of-the-art prevention and reduction techniques.
So when you have another child again, begin to take birth control pills, or you are approaching menopause, take aggressive steps, as we shall discuss later in preventing in melasma.
What are the treatment options for melasma?
- Anti-Aging
- Non-Surgical
- Skin
- Non-Surgical
- Products
Moles
What are moles?
Moles occur when skin cells grow in clusters. Those skin cells are called melanocytes, which also make the pigment of our skin. Moles are usually black or brown, and can grow anywhere during the first three decades of life.
What are the causes of moles?
Moles can be categorized by presentation in terms of time of onset, depths of involvement, typical or atypical presentation. Most importantly, some change, some do not, and some might disappear over time. It is important to note that if you notice irregular changes to a mole, you should see a specialist and have it diagnosed.
What are the treatments for moles?
Pores
What are pores?
Pores become concerning when they are enlarged. Enlarged pores create the appearance of unsmooth skin.3.
What are the causes of pores?
The three most frequent causes of enlarged pores are:
- Excessive sebum.Overproduction of oil, especially around the nose and cheeks can often result in enlargement of pores.When we have an excess amount of sebum and dead skin plugging up our pores, pore size enlarges.
- Decreased elasticity around the pores.With aging, dermal support around the pores weakens, and pores can appear larger.
- Thicker hair. Greater hair follicle volume also contributes to enlarged pores.
- Hormones. Hormonal imbalance can often result in excessive sebum.
What are the treatments for pores?
Rosacea
What is rosacea?
Rosacea is an skin condition characterized by sensitivity, redness, flushing, broken capillaries, acne like bumps and pimples, and thickening of the skin.
What are the causes of rosacea?
According to the National Rosacea Society, the potential causes of rosacea are as follows: innate immune system, neurological system, vascular system, demodex mites & microbes, genetics, and others.
What are the treatment options for rosacea?
Skin Tightening
What is skin tightening?
Loose skin refers to the loss of elasticity, firmness, tautness, leading to flabby skin. Solutions which counter this skin laxity are called skin tightening face treatments.
What causes loose skin?
Many factors contribute to the looseness of our skin: age, sun damage, gravity, genetics, weight changes, slowing of skin cells renewal, and the breaking down of the skin’s underlying structure. There are things that you can do for yourself to prevent or reduce the appearance of loose skin, such as applying sunscreen more often or using the right kind of moisturizer. However, sometimes the best solution is to have treatments done.
What are the treatments for skin tightening?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Skin Whitening
What is skin whitening?
Skin whitening refers to treatments and products to brighten up or even out the skin tone for both localized areas and at times, to lighten up skin color for the whole body.
Localized area skin whitening generally requires targeted treatment to the specific sites. Both treatments and products applied to the interested areas are the most expedient and effective ways to improve skin brightening.
Whole body skin whitening generally requires systemic, internal administration of medicine via oral uptake, intramuscular, or intravenous injections of various sun protecting, pigment lightening bioactives.
What are the causes of hyperpigmentation?
Two of the most common conditions of hyperpigmentation are melasma and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation(PIH).
Melasma can be can be caused by hormone conditions, pregnancy, menopause, low thyroid function, use of birth control pills, hormones, or photosensitizing drugs, frequent use of fragrant cosmetics.
Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation can be caused by any skin inflammation such as acne and use of aggressive skin products, cosmetic laser, or peels.
What are the treatment options for skin whitening?
- Anti-Aging
- Non-Surgical
- Skin
- Non-Surgical
- Products
Spider Veins
What are spider veins?
Varicose veins are those large, raised swollen and twisted blood vessels. Spider veins are smaller and redder, more purple, and bluer versions of the varicose veins. Both are very visible through the skin. Varicose veins are more common on the legs; spider veins are more common on the legs and face. There are many causes to varicose and spider veins: heredity, pressure from standing too long, obesity, hormonal influences, the use of birth control pills, postmenopausal hormonal replacements, blood clot history, conditions when increased pressure is applied to the abdomen (tumors, constipation, or garments like corsets), trauma or injury to the skin, previous vein surgery, or exposure to UV rays.
Symptoms of both veins include tiredness, pain, restlessness, throbbing, burning, tingling or heaviness in the legs. As for spider veins on the face, a common symptom is itchiness. They develop more often in women than in men, and also increase in frequency with age.
What are the causes of spider veins?
There are many causes to varicose and spider veins: heredity, pressure from standing too long, obesity, hormonal influences, the use of birth control pills, postmenopausal hormonal replacements, blood clot history, conditions when increased pressure is applied to the abdomen (tumors, constipation, or garments like corsets), trauma or injury to the skin, previous vein surgery, or exposure to UV rays
What are the treatments for spider veins?
TREATMENTS
- Non-Surgical
Stretch Marks
What are Stretch Marks?
Caused by a broken down dermis, stretch marks are notorious for troubling both men and women. Factors include skin tone, age, sun damage, diet, weight gain/loss, and pregnancy.
These marks are linear narrow streaks on the skin, typically found around the thighs, buttocks, breast and upper arms. These marks actually represent a form of scarring in the dermis of the skin. Early stretch marks are pink and slight raised, whereas late ones often are white and slightly depressed.
What causes stretch marks?
The most common cause of stretch mark is due to the mechanical stretching of the skin, which leads to rupture of connective tissue of the dermis, creating a scar-like process. Mechanical stretching happens during pregnancy, weight changes, and even excessive weight lifting. Other causes include adolescent growth, genetics, and steroid use.
What are the treatments for stretch marks?
TREATMENTS
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
Sun Protection
What is sun protection?
Protect yourself from the sun and maintain younger looking skin with the comprehensive sun protection.
According to CDC, the sun’s UV rays can damages the skin in as little as 15 minutes. It can increase the rate the skin ages. It can cause lines, wrinkles, brown spots, pigmentations, skin discolorations, moles, skin cancer, and many more. It is one of the major contributors to the many skin problems that we see today. Thus, it is highly important to protect your skin and have a great sun defense regimen.
What are the causes of photodamage?
Photodamage is therefore sun light induced skin changes of accelerated aging and disease formation such as wrinkling, inflammation, redness, dyspigmentation, and skin cancer. Light from the sun damages the skin via three parts of its spectrum: UVA(320-400 nm), UVB(290-320 nm), and infrared(760-1 mm) bands of light. Of these bands, the largest contribution is infrared light, followed by UVA, and last by UVB. UVA, the predominant form of ultraviolet radiation, penetrates deeply into the skin. As such, UVA promotes reactive oxygen species formati and promotes free radical formation. On the other hand, UVB, the minor portion of the UV light, causes sun burn and damages genetic material. Both UVA and UVB light thus causes photoaging, premature wrinkling, skin cancer. Meanwhile, infrared, a often ignored source of sun exposure, also has been shown to degrade celluar proteins, leading to premature wrinkle formation.
What are the treatments for sun protection?
TREATMENTS
Tattoo Removal
What is tattoo removal?
Tattoos are permanent. Or are they? Sometimes regrets or mistakes can happen and we can help.
What causes a tattoo?
Tattoos can be done by professionals or amateurs. Professional tattoos are generally harder to remove.
What are the treatments for tattoo removal?
TREATMENTS
- Non-Surgical
Volume Loss
What is volume loss?
Loss is volume is an important part of aging. Loss of volume leads to sunken face, thinness, loss of descent of soft tissue, illusion of extra skin, loss of contour, and sagging folds. In fact, one of the earliest change of aging face is volume loss
What are the causes of volume loss?
Simply put, loss of volume is caused by aging. Aging changes occurs on four levels: skin, fat, muscle, and even bone.
As we age, skin’s dermal collagen gradually breaks down through age, thus causing volume loss throughout the face and the whole body. Fat shrinks and descents with time. The bones of orbit, forehead, nose, mid-face, and jaw all remodel as we age. Muscle may become more lax in some areas whereas in other areas muscle may actually have increased resting tone, worsening movement wrinkles and folds.
As the space on the face dwindles, an ever increasing appearance of hollowness and sagginess occur.
What are the treatments for volume loss?
TREATMENTS
- Anti-Aging
- Non-Surgical
- Skin
- Surgical
- Plastic Surgery
- Non-Surgical
- Surgical
Wrinkles
What are wrinkles?
Wrinkles are creases and lines on the skin. These lines may appear around the eyes, mouth, cheeks, forehead, and even the neck. When these lines are wider and deeper, they are called furrows or folds. On the face, the earliest areas to forms wrinkles are around the eyes and mouth. Lines and wrinkles begin for form around the age of 30.
What are the causes of wrinkles?
There are two types of wrinkles, resting wrinkles and movement wrinkles.
Resting wrinkles result from:
- Intrinsic aging: Over time, loss of both quality and quantity of connective tissue components elastin and collagen produce resting wrinkles
- Sun exposure: frequent, prolonged, and repeated solar irradiation accelerate the natural changes to the connective tissue components, resulting in premature wrinkling and other skin changes such as skin growths and skin cancers.
- Smoking: Another frequent but completely preventable source of accelerated aging is tobacco smoking. Lines around the mouth can be a sign of this pollutant.
- Other factors: injuries from trauma, surgery, acne, and inflammation can also cause wrinkling.
- Skin dryness : Excessive dryness of the skin, from imbalance of water and lipid soluble contents in the natural skin barrer, can create the appearance of crakes on the skin, creating an illusion of fine lines and wrinkles.
Movement wrinkles result from:
- Facial movement: repeat movement, especially around the eyes, mouth, forehead causes increasing deep movement wrinkles. When movement wrinkles are prolonged, these wrinkles may even become apparent even at rest, exaggerating resting wrinkles.
What are the treatments for wrinkles?
TREATMENTS
- Skin
- Non-Surgical
Weight Loss
What is excessive weight?
Weight which exceeds the ideal range for a given height is considered as excessive, either overweight or obesity. The ideal way to measure weight is based on the body mass index, or BMI.
When BMI ranges between 25 to 30, one’s weight is considered overweight. When BMI exceeds 30, the weight becomes obesity.
Obesity is a common marker of aging and a major cause of many illnesses. When our body’s composition of fat and muscle deposits becomes imbalanced, we risk developing certain medical conditions and affecting our overall physiological functioning.
At the Advanced Aesthetics Center, we provide a wide range of medically supervised treatments that are not only effective, but are also simple, safe and gentle.
What are the causes of excessive weight?
The causes of excessive weight are multiple.
- Genetics: hereditary makeup
- Eating habits: unhealthy quality, quantity, and timing of eating
- Exercising habits: lack of adequate physical activity
- Sleep habits: lack of optimal sleep and rest
- Mind habit: emotion, self-esteem, perception, anxiety, depression
- Hormones: excessive stress hormones, under-active thyroid
- Medications: alcohol and many medications
Want to effectively lose excessive weight? Consider the following treatment options.
What are the treatments for weight loss?
Treatments
- Anti-Aging
- Weight Loss
- Non-Surgical
- Products