For a while now cosmetic surgery has been the best option for eliminating wrinkles. However, the significant advancements in the non invasive anti aging treatments have created a huge difference in the cosmetics industry. There are now the less aggressive skin renewals that are even done with minimal pain but will guarantee you better results. Let us discuss them one by one.
Anti Aging Treatments – Thermage
Thermage is a cosmetic procedure that uses radiofrequency to heat the deeper layers of the skin whilst cooling the outer layer of skin or epidermis. It will tighten the skin contour and will deliver a natural looking result by stimulating the production of collagen. It is suitable for all skin colors and types and is done as a single procedure. Improvements in your skin last approximately six months after the treatment. Other than treating the signs of aging such as sagging skin, jowls, “turkey neck”, eye hooding and fine lines and wrinkles, it also treats moles, small blood surface vessels, and warts.
Thermage is a non-surgical anti aging treatment so there is no requirement for pre-op blood tests or fasting. Also there is no recovery time involved. The only thing to be done is sunscreen maintenance as part of the basic procedure. Most patients who have undergone the process exhibit temporary redness or swelling for the first 24 hours post procedure but this quickly fades.
Anti Aging Treatments – Intense Pulsed Light
The Intense Pulsed Light is the technology used for skin aging reversal and of course, photo rejuvenation. This treatment was initially used for hair removal until it was found to have anti aging properties. It works particularly well in the treatment of broken capillaries and pigmentation and to refresh sun damaged skin and age spots.
There are several different types of Intense Pulsed Light machines that penetrate the skin at different levels to treat different skin conditions. These machines are extremely expensive. It is important to know that Intense Pulsed Light therapy is not laser treatment to the skin so none of the downtime that is required after laser skin treatment is required.
After the skin is anesthetized, a bright flash or pulse of light is applied to the skin through a prism which concentrates and intensifies the light source.
Anti Aging Treatments – Plasma Skin Resurfacing
Another one of the more interesting developments in skin rejuvenation is plasma skin resurfacing. It was developed as an alternate to ablative resurfacing done typically with an Erbium laser where literally some of the skin is burnt off.
Most skin resurfacing techniques are designed to cause enough damage to the skin in a controlled manner so that remodeling takes place as the skin heals itself. Plasma Skin Resurfacing uses science in an extremely creative to way to cause controlled damage to the skin without burning. The plasma is an ionized gas and the gas used is nitrogen. The advantage of using nitrogen is that it displaces oxygen from the skin’s surface. As the nitrogen plasma gas heats up the skin’s surface, burning doesn’t occur because the oxidative effect of oxygen is removed.
The plasma does damage the skin but there is no open wound like there is with the ablative laser therapies. There is also less risk of such complications as scarring, infection and loss of pigmentation. The skin remains intact whilst the healing and remodeling occurs and therefore there is less downtime.
Plasma Skin Resurfacing is an effective anti aging treatment and can be used for the treatment of fine line and wrinkles, sun damage and some acne scarring.
Anti Aging Treatments – Botox
Botulinum Toxin is a type of muscle relaxant. The toxin contains a molecule that binds to the receptors in the muscle cell that mediate muscle contraction. The Botox sits on the receptor and prevents the naturally occurring acetylcholine from binding to the receptor and initiating muscle contraction. The effect of Botox is to permanently cause paralysis of the facial muscles and thereby reduce the amount of face wrinkles.
Botox has many disadvantages: it is administered by multiple injections into the facial muscles so it is a painful procedure. It paralyses the facial muscles for at least 6 months and leaves the patient with little or no facial expression. This effect is of course, dose dependent.
Whilst most of the described anti aging treatments are non-invasive and don’t involve surgical procedures, they are all expensive and have the potential for serious side effects. There are many other topical anti aging treatments available and although they may take more time to work they are less expensive and safer in the long run.
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