Botox®
Botox® Cosmetic is commonly used to reduce or eliminate the appearance of facial wrinkles caused by repeated muscle contraction. It is injected under the skin into areas surrounding the eyes, forehead and mouth to smooth crow's feet, frown and worry lines, and lines on the neck.
Botox has been used safely on millions of patients worldwide over the past ten years with minimal side effects when performed under the care of a board-certified dermatologist like Dr. Chi. Ask us about Botox today!
Restylane®/Perlane®
Restylane® and Perlane® are safe and natural dermal fillers that restore volume and fullness to your skin to correct facial wrinkles and folds caused by loss of hyaluronic acid.
Hyaluronic Acid is a sugar found naturally in your body that gives support to your skin. With time or accelerated by sun or smoke damage your body's hyaluronic acid weakens, forming wrinkles and lines. Restylane and Perlane help replenish the skin's natural support layer. The result is a smoother face and the elimination or softening of bothersome lines, wrinkles and deflated contours.
Radiesse
For the longest-lasting correction of deep nasolabial folds, the lines running from the sides of the nose to the mouth, Radiesse is a successful instant-result injectable implant with a duration of 1 to 2 years.
Radiesse is composed of smooth round microspheres in a gel carrier. Your body's own collagen replaces the gel and surrounds the spheres, giving the skin a very natural feel and providing long-term results.
Juvederm™
Juvederm is the newest of the hyaluronic acid gels for filling wrinkles and plumping lips. Its special hyalacross technology makes it a soft and smooth product with a longer duration than previous hyaluronic acid products. A variety of gel densities make it an all-around filler for superficial and deep wrinkles along with instant volume creation.
Chemical Peels
A simple way to improve the texture of your skin and to reduce the signs of aging, scars or blemishes is with Chemical Peels. Chemical peels can help restore a younger, fresher appearance by removing a layer of skin with a chemical preparation. As your fresh new skin grows back, it's much smoother than before and imperfections are reduced.
You don't hear much about chemical peels these days, but they're still a staple in the effective maintenance of bright skin tone, smoothness and replacement of sun damaged surface skin.
Sculptra™
Unlike other injectable products, Sculptra® is not a site-specific wrinkle filler, but rather a re-volumizing agent that restores fullness and contours to correct the signs of facial fat loss. Facial fat loss (Lipoatrophy) occurs in all of us as we age. This loss of volume results in sunken cheeks and temples, accentuated facial folds and shadowing and generalized facial deflation or drooping and is one of the primary reasons patients seek cosmetic treatment.
Restoration of soft tissue volume and contours, rather than the correction of a few individual lines, is possible with this product. Sculptra, a form of poly-l-lactic acid, is a very safe FDA approved biodegradable compound that has been used in a wide range of medical devices, including dissolvable sutures, for more than 30 years.
Exessive Sweating
Medically termed hyperhidrosis, uncontrolled sweating is caused by an over-activity of the sweat producing glands. Surgery was once considered a viable option but carried risks and later it was discovered that the body would "compensate" for the removal of sweat glands by causing even heavier sweating in the areas where the other glands remained.
The medically favored treatment for controlling heavy sweating and hyperhidrosis is Botox. By blocking the signals to the sweat glands, sweat production slows dramatically - and takes with it the misery of soaked shirts, ruined silks, embarrassment, missed social functions, isolation and avoided promotions at work |
Fractional Resurfacing
Fractional resurfacing is a no-to-minimal downtime laser treatment for the improvement of surface lines, wrinkles, pigmentation and acne scarring. Treatments can significantly decrease the appearance of facial scarring after severe acne or Accutane treatment, or the cigarette-paper appearance of aged skin.
Dr. Chi has chosen to perform fractional resurfacing with the state-of-the art Palomar Lux 1540, a reliable laser system which has been used with efficacy in smoothing acne scars, lip lines and crow's feet. Significant results require several sessions, with acne scars requiring 4 to 6 session. Post procedure side effects are similar to those you'd feel from a moderate sunburn with some minor "dust-like" exfoliation after a few days.
Laser Hair Reduction and Removal
Lasers can efficiently reduce unwanted and excess hair growth with a series of treatments.
The transfer of laser-induced heat to the hair follicle can dramatically reduce active hair growth.
If you are tired of waxing, tweezing or shaving - or have hair patterns that are cosmetically unpleasing, then laser hair treatments are a wonderful option. Generally, a series of at least 4-6 treatments are needed to achieve desired, long-lasting results.
Intense Pulsed Light (IPL)
Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) is an efficient and quick way to improve the color, tone and condition of sun-damaged skin. Brown patches and tiny vessels are lightened and removed by the light beam.
Photofacial has been a popular medical cosmetic procedure for a number of years. The light penetrates the skin and induces healthy new collagen growth at the same time it reduces signs of aging. It also penetrates beneath the skin to remove spotty pigmentation and freckles.
Silkpeel Dermal Infusion
SilkPeel addresses your most common skin conditions with topicals for hydrating, skin lightening, and acne. SilkPeel is a new, breakthrough procedure that combines exfoliation with condition-specific Dermal Infusion.
The SilkPeel's diamond treatment head exfoliates the skin while delivering a topical dermaceutical at the same time. SilkPeel stimulates new cell growth and addresses your specific skin condition, giving your skin the revitalization it needs
The only treatment of it's kind, SilkPeel effectively treats all skin types and addresses a wide range of dermatological conditions including hyperpigmentation, acne, photodamage, dehydration and fine line wrinkles.
Photodynamic Therapy/Blue Light
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)/Blue Light is a highly effective procedure that destroys abnormal cells. These cells can be those of actinic keratosis (pre-cancerous rough areas on the skin), moderate to severe acne and sun-damaged skin.
PDT works by the use of a special solution that is absorbed by the abnormal cells. After absorption, a specific type of light triggers the solution to action and the "bad" cells are destroyed.
Photodynamic Therapy/Blue Light is becoming widely used as a primary solution to persistent acne and the removal of precancerous Actinic Keratoses (AK's), without the need for messy creams and potentially harmful long-term antibiotics.
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