Aesthetic Concerns

Concerns in Aesthetic Concerns

• Wrinkles and Fine Lines Every line on a face is one of three things: a muscle folding the skin, the skin itself changing, or the volume underneath having gone. They look similar and they need completely different treatments, which is why the same product works beautifully for one person and does very little for another.
• Unwanted Hair How much hair you grow, where it grows and how coarse it is comes down to family and hormones rather than anything you did. Laser reduction works by targeting the pigment in the hair, which is why the color of your hair matters more than almost anything else about you.
• Sun Damage Sun damage is everything years of light leave behind: brown spots, fine red veins, rough patches and lines. It looks like one problem and it is really four, which is why one treatment often improves part of a face and leaves the rest alone. Sorting out which you have is where the result comes from.
• Stubborn Fat Almost everyone has one area that never changes no matter what the rest of the body does. Where you store fat is set by genes and hormones rather than by effort, which is why the flanks or the lower abdomen can hold on while everything around them responds.
• Spider Veins Spider veins are the fine red or purple lines that surface on the nose, cheeks and legs. They are flat, they are harmless, and a laser tuned to the color of blood clears them. The important distinction is what they are not, because a vein that bulges is a different thing entirely.
• Sagging Skin Loose skin and a face that has emptied look almost identical in a mirror and they need opposite treatments. Knowing which one you have is worth more than knowing which machine a practice owns, and it is the first thing settled at a consultation here.
• Melasma Melasma is the brown or gray-brown patching that spreads across the face, usually matching side to side. Light and hormones bring it out in skin that was already inclined toward it. It lightens well with the right plan, and the order you treat it in matters more than what you treat it with.
• Facial Volume Loss A face empties before it falls. Flatter cheeks, a hollow under the eye, a crease beside the mouth that keeps deepening and a jawline that has softened are usually one problem rather than four, and it is a problem of support rather than of skin.