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“I’m going to the doctor - for my facial”

Communications manager Cecilia Tan, 33, used to visit beauty salons for facials.

But since last year, Ms Tan began visiting Neuglow, an aesthetic clinic run by Healthway Medical Group, for chemical facial peels to improve her complexion.

Never mind that the peels cost $600 per session - at least six times what salons charge.

She said: “Doctors have been professionally trained, and unlike salons, there’s no hard-selling or pressure to sign packages. It’s a real stress-free environment.”

Miss Tan is among a growing number of people flocking to aesthetic clinics to look good, doctors said. Aesthetic clinics, run by general practitioners, are commonplace these days and they are going head-to-head with beauty salons.

Popular services include laser treatment to rejuvenate facial skin, Botox jabs and hair removal. Read more

               

Earlobe Rejuvenation: The Lobe Lift

When you ask people to name the tell-tale parts of the body to look at when determining a lady’s age, most people will point to the woman’s hands and neck. However the earlobes are also another sign of a person’s true age.

Just as with any other part of the body, the earlobe will go through the natural ageing process. The earlobe is also constantly exposed to the sun and there are few people who will remember to apply sunscreen to their ears when applying it to the rest of their body!

Earlobes often become elongated over time thanks to a reduction in collagen meaning the elasticity in the skin is reduced. The skin also tends to become elongated, thin and saggy and surface wrinkles may appear. Women who like to wear dangly earrings are particularly at risk as the weight of the earrings may help to pull the earlobe down, accentuating the elongation and sagginess of the lobe. Read more

               

Less invasive plastic-surgery options may be beneficial

Given today’s busy lifestyle and hectic schedule, it is often difficult or impossible to arrange a week to recover from a procedure. This is part of the reason that less invasive options have become so popular over the last decade. In 2007, 4.6 million people had Botox injections, over 1 million had a hyaluronic acid filler, over 1 million had a chemical peel, and laser hair removal and microdermabrasion were each performed more than 1 million times each in 2007. Read more

               

No-knife facelifts

Why is the face I see in the mirror every morning suddenly looking droopier? It couldn’t have occurred overnight, but why does everything suddenly appear to be looking down, not up? ‘Your skin is made up of strands of collagen and elastin fibres and both change during the ageing process and as a result of sun damage,’ explains IAPAM member Dr Alek Nikolic, who has a practice in Chelsea Village, Cape Town. Read more

               

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Get rid of wrinkles

Not all of us choose to age gracefully. Instead, many women decide to get a little help along the way to stay looking younger. Botox, peels, lasers … it’s all so confusing. If you have been considering getting some sort of wrinkle treatment from dermatologist or plastic surgeon, here’s the lowdown on several common wrinkle treatments that are available today. Read more

               

Primary care doctors are getting into the beauty business

A man with a large vein running across his nose wears a huge mustache, hoping to make the vein less noticeable. A woman with dark facial pigmentation walks with her head down and wears her hair long, so it swings forward to cover her face. Hardly Hollywood hunks and starlets, these are regular folks who simply want to feel better about themselves and who, according to the Minnesota physicians who treat them, are driving the growth of aesthetic medicine. Read more

               

Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Spending Increases 9 Percent to $12.4 Billion

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Despite domestic concerns like inflation and a looming home lending crisis, average Americans continue to spend money on plastic surgery. According to the latest procedural statistics report from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), almost 12 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were performed in 2007 - a 7 percent increase from 2006 and a 59 percent increase from 2000. Also, 5.1 million reconstructive plastic surgery procedures were performed last year.

“The report tells me Americans are devoted to looking and feeling their best,” said Richard A. D’Amico, MD, ASPS president. “High demand continues for less invasive and relatively less expensive procedures, but there were also promising rebounds in some surgical procedures.”

Numbers of surgical cosmetic procedures remained unchanged from the previous year, with more than 1.8 million procedures performed in 2007. The top five surgical procedures were breast augmentation (348,000, up 6 percent), liposuction (302,000, unchanged), nose reshaping (285,000, down 7 percent), eyelid surgery (241,000, up 3 percent), and tummy tuck (148,000, up 1 percent). Read more

               

Chemical Peel, Facial Rejuvenation with Dr. Cruise

Chemical peeling is a way of rejuvenating facial skin (sometimes arms and chest) by applying a chemical that essentially destroys the top layers of the skin. When the skin heals it does so by reforming collagen that is thicker, better vascularized and more youthful. It is most effective in treating sun damaged skin. It effectively eliminates or reduces age spots and skin discoloration. It also helps with fine wrinkles as well as improving skin texture. Chemical peeling is very effective in recapturing the healthy, glowing texture seen in youthful skin.

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