Blog Posts in 2013

SHOULD I USE BOTOX OR FILLERS FOR FROWN LINES? WILL BOTOX HELP GIVE A LIFT THERE?

Doctor A’s Answer: Treating the glabella creases (vertical frown lines between eyebrows) may require both a filler (Restylane/Juvederm) and a paralytic (botox/dysport). The paralytic agent stops you from making the expression that caused the lines in the first place. If you don’t have any lines when not making that mean face, then all you will need is Botox or Dysport. Either of these products ...

IS USING VOLUMA A PREVENTATIVE MEASURE FOR VOLUME LOSS IN THE CHEEK AREA?

IS USING VOLUMA A PREVENTATIVE MEASURE FOR VOLUME LOSS IN THE CHEEK AREA? Dr A’s Answer: There is no reason to believe that injecting Voluma into a face that has not yet lost its fat would prevent it from losing fat in the future. Voluma is a product that is expected to add volume to a face as it is now and that this affect would go away when the Voluma naturally dissolved.

RHINOPLASTY, CHIN AUGMENTATION, PTOSIS

Question: I have posted some questions but I thought I’d better put everything in one post. This is me and I’m ashamed of how I look, so much that’s it’s influencing my lifestyle. I’m planning to have a chin implant, but I’d also like a rhinoplasty for my big tip, bump, low columella and large, uneven nostrils. I have ptosis on my right eye. What surgeries would I need to have and will it be ...

MINI FACELIFT VS. FULL FACELIFT: WHICH IS BEST?

Question: A mini lift sounds sooo much more appealing to me. less expensive…less invasive…can get rid of my sagging skin and jowls. why would I opt to get full facelift surgery? Dr A’s Answer: Mini Facelift is a very limited facelift. For the most part it is tightening of the skin only and perhaps some minimal lifting of the deep tissues. Many people think that sounds great. They pull on their ...