Restore that Beautiful Line of Your Lower Face and Chin

The lower face restoration techniques have expanded very quickly. Exactly what will best work for you has to be decided in consultation, but using fillers, Botox, Lasers ultrasound or radiofrequency treatments have very little down time and work extremely well. Sagging jaw line, jowls, acne scaring, and wrinkling all are nicely handled by these techniques. Getting proper exercise and nutrition and sleep is also important. Surgery is corrective for some problems, but your skin sagging can often be handled with little to no down time, which surgery cannot boast.

Growing Your New Skin

Want the filler that is designed for you, because it is you? It may still be stuff of the future to think that we can grow ourselves new hearts, new kidneys, a new liver or even new bones. But there is an organ we can grow for ourselves: tissue filler! Although very new, relatively expensive, and only FDA approved for the treatment of deep lines in the area of your nasolabial folds, new tissue is able to be grown for your own use! Medically the use of your own tissue, an example might be saving blood for your own use later on, or using plasma extracts to heal joints, is called autologics. These cell implants for the use of facial rejuvenation are only the second FDA cell therapy approved. The new filler Azficel-T  is now approved for a 6 month facial treatment. The treatment has to be done by a trained physician, the treatment is relatively expensive, it’s not rapid as it takes 3 months to grow your own tissue supply, but it’s your tissue and the chances of rejection are as close to eliminated as possible with this treatment. So if you are considering fillers but haven’t wanted to use a foreign substance, this might just be for you!

Lip Enhancement Treatment Gets FDA Panel Approval

On April 27th, the  US Food and Drug Administration's General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee recommended the injectable wrinkle-filler Restylane (Medicis Aesthetics Inc) for use as a lip enhancer. Restylane, one of the top three commonly used injectable gel composed of hyaluronic acid, is currently  indicated for mid- to deep-dermal implantation to correct moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds. The company is seeking to amend the product's indication to include submucosal implantation for lip augmentation.
The panel voted 6 to 0 (1 abstaining) that Restylane for lip augmentation is generally safe and effective for this purpose and that the benefits outweigh the risks, but the FDA still has to make a final decision on Restylane injectable gel for lip augmentation, but the agency usually follows the advice of its advisory panels, which consist of outside experts. The side effects of the lip injection treatments in the study were mild and resolved quickly. Depending upon the area treated, and the effects wanted, there is variation in the amount of volume injected and that has to be decided with your individual provider who is doing your injections. So the FDA panel is not going to set a maximum dose. Men and women of color have been under represented in these studies, but it is felt that the injection of filler in these patients would be safe. In the recent study only a very few patients were in the 18-22 age range, but it has been tested safely in these few patients. Restylane is commonly used off-label to augment and contour the lips, so the ruling really just enhances current practices.

Introduction of Blunt Needle Technique at Hada Cosmetic Medicine

Dermal fillers fill in facial crevices, like in the nasal labial folds. And yet they do more to enhance facial features, such as produce collagen building. Although some strategies preoperatively , like avoiding asprin, with proper adherence to post operative instructions, and strategies during the treatment such as technique, down time from bruising and swelling can be kept to a minimum. Patients now have additional benefit from a technique introduced called blunt needle cannulas. By using these the tissue is gently pushed apart rather than actually cut in parts of the injection and thus the swelling and bruising is less and the patient comfort is enhanced as well. At Hada Cosmetic Medicine, where the technique was introduced first in Central Illinois, injection nurse Jody Randolph, RN was immediately impressed with the difference in comfort level. As with other techniques, it is not used for all locations and all techniques. For best individual results she suggests, "consultation, and to remember, that fillers are enhanced by the other care you give your skin."