Wrinkle Reduction Treatments

Hopkins Clinic is proud to offer the unique and advanced wrinkle reduction treatments including ReFirme, BOTOX®, ArteFill®, Juvederm™, Radiesse®, Restylane®, and Obagi Skin Care Products.

The elos technology ReFirme rejuvenates the skin by treating the dermal layers, stimulating collagen growth thereby plumping the skin and tightening the skin to REDUCE the wrinkle. BOTOX® reduces wrinkles by paralyzing muscle. The dermal fillers reduce bigger wrinkles by the injection of a substance (some last longer than others) UNDER the wrinkle to plump up the tissue. MicroDermabrasion is a general term for the application of tiny rough grains to buff away the surface layer of skin. Obagi is different than facial treatments in that it actually CHANGES the underlying dermis via medication which results in healthier skin rather than just cleaning up the dead surface layer.
 

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Wrinkles are a ridge on the skin caused by age, fatigue, or other reasons and are the most common sign of aging. We all get them and we all want to get rid of them. Unfortunately, there is no simple solution when it comes to wrinkle removal. That's because there are actually three different types of wrinkles, and each has specific treatments designed to treat them.

How Wrinkle Treatments Work

Your skin is made up of damaged superficial cells and healthier deep cells. Every day, your old superficial cells die, shed, and are replaced by younger cells. When you are born, the process of shedding a new skin cell takes about 30 days. By the time you are 60, the process takes about 60 days. Thus, as you get older, your complexion becomes dull and lifeless because the cells on your skin's surface are, in fact, older.

Despite their similarities, each treatment works slightly differently and therefore yields a different degree of improvement. No one treatment solves all problems. In general, deeper treatments yield greater improvement but impose longer recovery. To optimize their results, many people employ two treatment options that complement one another, such as laser resurfacing and BOTOX® injections.

Treatments with the Syneron laser cause uniform destruction and shedding of your old damaged superficial skin cells. This allows healthier deep cells to surface while they are still young and fresh. Each of these treatments organizes and expedites the process of skin turnover and helps you reclaim the skin of your youth. As a result, you will see improvement in some or all of the following skin problems: large pore size, loss of skin vitality, roughness, discoloration, fine wrinkles, acne scars, dynamic wrinkles, and loss of skin tone. (Dermal Fillers and BOTOX® are guided by other principles).

The three types of wrinkles are dynamic wrinkles, fine wrinkles, and skin fold wrinkles.

Dynamic Wrinkles: Restylane®

Over time expression lines deepen to the extent that they are always visible.  The earliest tend to be on forehead caused by frowning or raising our eyebrows, and crow's feet from smiling or squinting. Initially, expression lines disappear when your face is relaxed, but as time passes they grow deeper. Eventually, the wrinkles become permanent. The most effective way to prevent this is to combat the underlying cause.  The deeper lines are usually on the forehead. from the nose to the mouth, and the 'marionette lines' from the corner of the mouth down to the jawline. Less pronounced like crow's feet and the tiny lines around the lips can make you look older than you feel. We can eliminate this sign of aging with one easy visit.  Doctors call them dynamic wrinkles. Everyone else simply calls them smile lines and frown lines. No matter what you call them, they are the most troublesome of all wrinkles and often are the most difficult to treat. They are our crow's feet, scowl lines, forehead creases, and lip wrinkles. They develop because each time we smile, laugh, or frown, our skin creases or folds in the same way. After making the same expressions time after time, our skin "remembers" these creases even when they are not there. These wrinkles can be improved through laser resurfacing, dermabrasion, deep peels, BOTOX®, ReFirme, and Dermal Fillers. However, even if these treatments could vanish your dynamic wrinkles, your dynamic wrinkles will return, because you will continue to make the same facial expressions that caused them in the first place.  At some point we notice lines forming from years of repeated expressions.

Fine Wrinkles

Fine wrinkles are seen on dry crepe paper skin (usually on the cheeks). These wrinkles are superficial and their removal is relatively easy through skin care, micropeels, and other simple treatments.  Fine lines are caused by many reasons. Lifestyle, heredity, environmental factors and age play a part in how quickly you develop lines on your face. Although there are ways to improve your skin's appearance, such as proper hydration and using a good sunscreen, no one can avoid wrinkles forever. We have many effective therapies for the elimination of fine lines which will also benefit the tone, texture and vitality of your skin.

Skin Fold Wrinkles: JUVEDERM™ | Radiesse® | ArteFill®

Skin fold wrinkles are the wrinkles that go from the corner of our noses, around our mouths, and down to our chins.

They look like big parentheses around our mouths. They develop within the skin fold (called nasolabial fold by doctors) which is due to sagging cheeks.

See Also: MicroDermabrasion | Obagi

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