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Recent Posts in Anti-Aging Category

  • Cheek Rejuvenation: Restoring Volume to Your Cheeks

    One of the first places you’re likely to notice aging is in your cheeks. As your skin loses collagen, it also loses fullness. Nowhere is this more evident than in your cheeks. Over time, your cheeks may start to look thinner, flatter and even sunken. As a result, the contour of your face may change altogether. Any other imperfections, like sagging around the eyes or lines around the nose, become ...
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  • Xeomin vs. Botox

    Both Botox and Xeomin offer effective means to eliminate wrinkles and lines on your forehead. And while both neuromodulators are derived from the same source, there are subtle differences in the formulations. What is Xeomin? Like Botox, Xeomin is made from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. In both products, the active ingredient weakens the muscles in your face that cause wrinkles to appear. ...
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  • Hide Wrinkles And Creases With Botox®

    No matter how well we’re able to care for and preserve our skin throughout our lives, signs of aging are bound to catch up with us. The daily facial expressions we make can cause fine lines, creases, and wrinkles to develop around our eyes and forehead, and make us look angry, tired, or sad — even when we’re not. Sometimes, factors such as stress and genetics will bring out wrinkles and creases, ...
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  • The Amazing Effects Of Dermal Fillers

    For years, anti-aging procedures focused on improving skin texture and tightening loose skin. But, there was never any way to restore lost volume or plump shallow contours, which are also extremely common signs of aging. Loss of collagen and the subsequent loss of plump, voluminous features can’t always be improved with face lift surgery and skin care treatments. For this reason, thousands of ...
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  • Sunscreen - Separating Fact From Fiction

    With the sun about to be — thankfully — a much bigger part of our daily lives, we here at GLOW Surgical Arts thought it might be a good time to play a little bit of fact or fiction. The sunscreen edition! So! Fact or fiction? The higher the SPF, the better: First, just in case, SPF is sun protection factor. The automatic assumption then, of course, is there is no such thing as too much SPF. The ...
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  • Hand Rejuvenation - Don't Let Your Hands Give Away Your Age!

    Our bodies seemingly do everything they can to advertise to anyone looking that we are aging. Sometimes it might feel like you are walking around with a sign on your forehead telling everybody just exactly what your age is. Might as well, right? The crow’s feet around your eyes are shouting it. The wrinkles in your neck are screaming it. The older we get, the more our bodies give the fact that ...
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  • Autumn Doesn't Mean Goodbye To Sunscreen

    As summer comes to an end, and the Bay Area begins to cool off for fall and winter, at least we can stop worrying about sunscreen! No doubt that is what many of us think. Applying sunscreen is just one more "to do" in our already busy schedule. autumn sunscreenSo, with the temperature dropping and the season changing, at least we can all forget about sunscreen until next summer comes back around. ...
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  • The Skincare Of Your Teens Is Not The Same When You're 40

    I don'’t know how many times I have asked a patient their skin type and they say “Oily” while I find no sign of shine or oil anywhere on their skin. Just because you were oily at 18, does not mean you will be oily at 38, 28, or even 21. Our skin is constantly changing based on our diet, climate change, our choice in skincare, etc. Those changes could be every couple of years or even seasonally. ...
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