Skin Exfoliation – The Most Important First Step For Removing Facial Wrinkles
The appearance of facial wrinkles, the first sign of facial aging, have prompted millions to to spend billions seeking the “wrinkle cure”. But before you spend thousands of dollars for wrinkle removal on IPL, fillers such as Restylane, Radiesse, and Sculptra, and expensive creams like RetinA, Vitamin C, and Prevage you should learn why skin exfoliation, a much more effective wrinkle removal and non-surgical facial rejuvenation technique should be started first.
Wrinkles on the face are surface irregularities and must be smoothed out by deep skin exfoliation to remove dead skin and wrinkle debris from the surface of the face. Non-ablative technologies such as IPL, Photo Facial, Thermage, Titan, Aluma, LuxIR and other photo-facial therapies work by stimulating new collagen to grow in the deeper layers of the skin but do not provide skin exfoliation which is required to remove the surface irregularities. Restylane, Radiesse, Sculptra, Collagen, Hylaform, Cosmoplast, and Cosmoderm are non-surgical facial rejuvenation fillers which are injected into the deep layers of the skin to plump lines, but again they do not provide skin exfoliation and do not address the surface wrinkles.
Skin Exfoliation removes dead skin and surface irregularities similar to the way imperfections on wood are removed by sanding, but in a much gentler and safe way. Deep skin exfoliation also stimulates the deeper layers of the skin to grow new collagen. After exfoliation, once the dead skin cells are removed, topical creams such as Retin A, Tazarotine, Vitamin C, and Prevage will penetrated the skin more easily and be more effective.
Effective skin exfoliation can be accomplished by microdermabrasion, micropeel, and ablative laser skin exfoliation therapies like microlaserpeel, ActiveFX Laserlyte Peel, or by various chemical peels. I start my patients on gentle no down time methods like Obagi Skin Care and skin exfoliation with microdermabrasion first. When the patient decides they want more skin exfoliation and wrinkle removal I advance to the new effective deep skin exfoliation provided by the ActiveFX Laser Peel, an exciting effective laser skin peel which provides deep skin exfoliation and skin tightening as well with minimal down time.
There are many new exciting facial rejuvenation methods available today, but they must be applied in the proper order. Skin Exfoliation is the first basic step in the 6-step facial rejuvenation program. To spend money and time on therapies that work on the deeper layers of your skin to promote new collagen formation without first using skin exfoliation to remove dead skin and the wrinkle surface irregularities is in my opinion-wasted effort.
First things first, start with the first step, deep skin exfoliation for effective wrinkle removal. Contact me for further information or questions or read Save Your Face.
Dr Seckel
Boston, Massachusetts