Plastic Surgery is becoming Non-surgical
For decades the words Plastic Surgery have been associated with images of gowned surgeons performing surgical operations to enhance beauty and remove the traces of aging.
While Plastic Surgery is truly a much more comprehensive field including reconstructive surgery following burns, cancer surgery, and birth defects, the image most often projected in the media is that of image or beauty enhancement and non-surgical and surgical facial rejuvenation of otherwise normal people by surgery.
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Revolutionary technological advancements in the past decade have significantly impacted the field of Plastic Surgery creating a shift from traditional surgical procedures to new non-surgical methods for correcting aging changes and improving appearance.
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Today Botox® injections can remove crow’s feet, frown lines, worry lines, and help lift the sagging brow. Prior to Botox® major facial surgery such as a brow lift and blepharoplasty (eyelid lift) were performed to correct these aging changes.
New fillers such as Restylane® and Radiesse® are injected into the nasal-labial fold, lips, and marionette lines, those deep lines running from the lips down around the mouth and chin. Previously, a face lift was performed to correct these lines.
Skin tightening technology such as aluma, ActiveFX, LuxIR, Titan® and Thermage® are becoming better and can improve facial sagging in 30% patients if used early before the sagging is severe. Many patients choose to have one of these techniques rather than a face-lift. Many other new exciting techniques for laser restoration of skin collagen (Laser Genesis®) and improvement in skin wrinkling, removal of pigment, and removal of red spots and blood vessels on the face are already in use today.
These dramatic advances coupled with increasing public awareness of the importance of sun protection, a healthy anti-inflammatory diet, exercise, stress reduction, and a healthy lifestyle undoubtedly will impact the Plastic Surgery practice of the future. The Plastic Surgeon of the future will still have to be a highly skilled, knowledgeable surgeon, but I predict he/she will need to be an expert in the newer laser, light, pharmacological, and lifestyle therapies as well.
Plastic Surgery is becoming more non-surgical with every new technological advancement. The 6-step facial rejuvenation program encompases all the new non-surgical facial rejuvenation techniques. For questions read Save Your Face, or contact me.
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