Sculptra Side Effects!

Sculptra Aesthetic works to replace lost collagen in a series of treatments administered by a Sculptra Aesthetic trained physician. On average, three injection sessions are needed over a period of a few months. The number of injection sessions and the number of injections per session vary from person to person. Within the deep dermis, your skin's structure is reinforced as Sculptra Aesthetic helps to replace lost collagen. This reinforced collagen structure provides a foundation that gradually restores the look of fullness of your shallow to deep facial wrinkles and folds* that has been depleted over time. Sculptra Aesthetic is different because it gradually and subtly corrects these facial wrinkles. This can provide a refined, more youthful looking appearance that can last more than two years. Safety and effectiveness of Sculptra Aesthetic have not been evaluated in areas other than nasolabial wrinkles and folds in clinical trials.

Sculptra has been available worldwide since 1999, and FDA approved since 2004.  It is a "biostimulatory" filler, meaning that it increases your skin's own collagen production.  That collagen provides a scaffolding that lifts the skin and decreasing deep & shallow wrinkles.
As with all injectables, patients experience mild to moderate discomfort with the injection, and bruising is a risk.… SHOW MORE

Sculptra differs from other injectables in that it can cause bumps.  These bumps are the result of too much collagen formation.  In the last several years, techniques have evolved so that these bumps, should they occur, are small.  They typically cannot be seen, only felt.  And, they typically go away by themselves after a few months. 
Newer techniques include reconstituting the product at least 48 hours in advance, using a more dilute concentration, and fanning the product (so as not to put too much in a single area).
Sculptra achieves longlasting, natural results.  It works better than any other product for filling the periphery of the face (temples, submalar hollows, enhancing the jaw).

The Sculptra Procedure:

During the procedure your doctor will use a water soluble pencil to outline a grid that is perpendicular and parallel to the nasolabial fold. This helps the doctor properly assess where the injections should go for maximum effect. Again, this procedure shows effects gradually, as the body begins to absorb the material and produce collagen, so proper targeting of the injections is essential.

Massage is a vital part of the process. The doctor will massage the injection sites after each series of three to four injections. This helps distribute the product more evenly underneath the skin to allow for better absorption into the deeper skin layers. An important two minute massage also takes place after the injection session, and is done with a facial moisturizer. 

Patients are advised to massage the area that was treated for five minutes as well after the procedure is complete. This should be d

Sculptra^® is injected below the surface of the skin in the area of fat loss. Sculptra^® provides an increase in skin thickness. The results will be visible within the first few treatment sessions and will last for 2 years or more.
The doctor will determine the number of treatment sessions that will obtain the best result. After the first treatment session, your plastic surgeon will want to reexamine you in two weeks. He/she will then assess if you need additional treatments. It is common for patients with extreme facial fat loss to require three to six sessions.
In a clinical study the treatment results lasted for up to two years after the first treatment session, in most patients. Touch up treatments may be needed to maintain the desired effects.

The most common side effects with Sculptra^® include bleeding, tenderness, redness, bruising and swelling at the injection site. These side effects usually go away within a few days.
Your plastic surgeon will advise you to massage the treated area (a few times a day) for several days after the treatment. Additionally, an icepack may be applied after the treatment to help any swelling.one about five times each day for a period of five days after treatment

Also, keep in mind that because of how Sculptra works, the wrinkles and facial depressions can actually reappear shortly after the procedure. This is because Sculptra Aesthetic fills wrinkles with small beads of PLLA, which is the substance that eventually leads to collagen production.  As part of the process, the beads biodegrade into the body to stimulate collagen, but this will also cause the wrinkles to temporarily come back until the body has produced more collagen.

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When Does Peeling Start After Photofacial?

IPL Photofacial: You should not get any peeling from a photofacial.   A photo facial will decrease the red and brown pigment in the skin over a few sessions.   The browns will get darker and more apparent after a photo facial and then will fall off or fade, but you should not actually peel as you would with certain chemical peels or laser peels.

Do you think that the reflection you see in the mirror each morning matches the way you feel? Many patients wish that there was a safe, easy and quick way to get rid of their red complexion, fine wrinkles, irregular pigmentation and large pores. Photofacial or FotoFacial is one of our most exciting anti-aging services. Photofacial of the face and body produces even-toned skin that looks more youthful.

Photofacial can erase skin damage and treat a variety of skin conditions, such as:

Broken Capillaries

Sun and Smoke Damage

Veins

Mild Acne Scars

Enlarged Pores

Dull Complexions

Uneven Pigmentation

Pigmented Freckles and Age spots

Red Flushing skin

Rosacea & Redness

Liver Spots

Fine lines & Wrinkles

Common Questions About Photofacial.

What results can I expect?

After only one treatment, your skin will have a more even tone with a smoother look and feel. Sunspots will fade. Pore sizes will shrink. Fine lines and wrinkles will gradually decrease in size. These improvements will steadily increase with each treatment. Patients with rosacea will see a progressive decrease in redness with every treatment.

What will recovery be like?

Post-Photo Facial discomfort is almost nonexistent. After treatment with most light systems, the treated skin may appear a little flushed and capillaries may seem to be more visible. The flushed look soon fades away, and the capillaries appear to vanish, leaving the skin looking younger. It's that simple.

How do Photofacial treatments work?

Today's new light technology delivers precise dosages of energy to the skin. During your treatment, light energy is gently delivered through a special hand piece to the targeted area. Levels of energy specific to your treatment are used to maximize your improvement. Once delivered, the light energy is absorbed by the targeted damaged tissue. After any treatment, you should follow your home care instructions, avoid any harsh skin cleansers and always use sunscreen.

How many treatments will I need?

Depending on the area treated, most clients need a series of approximately five treatments. Treatments usually take from 15 to 30 minutes. Treatments are spaced out at approximately three week intervals.

Do Photofacial hurt?

Most patients describe the sensation to be like the snap of a rubber band on the skin as the pulses of energy are delivered through the hand piece. Some patients opt to have a topical anesthesia. After treatment, the pain is minimal to nonexistent.

Who are the best candidates for IPL Photo facial Rejuvenation?

The best candidates have:

Red, flushed faces or rosacea

Sun-damaged skin

Hyperpigmentation

Enlarged pores

Are Photofacial treatments safe?

Yes! Advanced light systems have been used safely for millions of treatments worldwide. These systems treat only the targeted tissues, leaving the surrounding tissue intact. However, some bruising or redness may occur.

Photo facial Treatments are just one of the many excellent non-surgical treatments offered by Suddenly Slimmer Medical Spa. Other popular treatments include Laser Skin Tightening, Medical Peels, Botox, Dysport, DermalFillers: Sculptra, Voluma, Volbella, Juvéderm, Perlane, Radiesse, Restylane.

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Please explain the results of Kybella. How many treatments is the 'norm?'

KYBELLA is a formulation of deoxycholic acid that mimics the same substance that is naturally produced by our bodies in order to help absorb fats. It works by destroying the tissue’s cell membrane when injected. By properly injecting KYBELLA into submental fat, the fat cells are destroyed. Once the cells have been destroyed they can never again store or accumulate fat.

During initial treatment, the patient receives a number of injections in the targeted region, which takes about 30 minutes. After treatment is complete, the patient is asked to ice the treated area and take an over-the-counter pain reliever. The patients typically need two to three rounds of injections about 30 to 60 days apart to reach the desired effect.

Kybella really works. Every patient with a double chin due to fat in what we can the preplatysmal fat pad will see a significant reduction in that fat without surgery.  Recovery after Kybella treatment is much quicker and easier than after the alternative, liposuction.

After the procedure, the primary side effect you will notice is swelling. This can be noticeable for as little as two days to as long as three weeks and is greater in those with larger volumes of treated fat and higher doses. Older patients, with more skin laxity, will feel that the swelling takes longer to resolve than those with younger and/or tighter skin.

Other than that, there is some tenderness but patients don't usually talk about it on their follow-up visit other than to be reassured that it is normal, since it is fairly mild and mostly only if the area is touched or prodded. Small areas of firmness, if they occur, resolve quickly.

It’s liposuction without the surgery.” With Kybella one can achieve the desired effect of chin liposuction with a series of simple, non-surgical treatments.

KYBELLA treated group of 514 patients compared to the placebo group (508 patients) as measured by both clinician and patient ratings. In addition, visual and emotional impacts of submental fat (happy, bothered, self-conscious, embarrassed, looking older or overweight) were evaluated using a 6-question survey and 79% of 1 and 2-grade composite responders reported satisfaction after 12 weeks post final treatment compared with 33.6% of patients who received placebo.

KYBELLA can cause serious side effects including nerve injury in the jaw that can cause an uneven smile or facial muscle weakness and trouble swallowing. The most common side effects are swelling, bruising, pain, numbness, redness, and areas of hardness in the treatment area.

Kybella results are permanent: once the adipocytes (fat cells) die, they do not grow back. Any remaining cells will get larger when you put on weight and smaller when you lose weight, just as all the fat cells in your body will. Because there are fewer cells to become larger in the treated area, you will not put on as much fat in the treated area if you gain weight.

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What is the recovery like for Kybella injections?

What is the recovery like for Kybella injections?

Kibella patients at first experience some pain, usually rated 4-6 on a scale of 1-10, for a total of 5-7 hours starting about halfway through the injections, made very tolerable with pain medicine taken prior.

Next, they experience swelling, which can get huge if there was a large amount of fat, which peaks at 18-24 hours after injection and is largely gone after two days after the procedure. Some of the swelling can go down into the upper chest skin--but usually leaves by the end of the second day).

They will develop, often, some numbness in the treated area, which disappears within 45 days.

They often have tenderness-to-the-touch in the area for 45 days, which is not severe enough to interfere with daily life and working.

They may have a transient 3-12 hour period, within the first 24 hours after treatment, of hoarseness and mild discomfort swallowing solid food; no problems breathing or drinking or eating soft foods and smoothies.

By the 3rd day after treatment, the treated area starts to "gel." This is something you feel; not see. This is followed by a solidification or hardening of the gel-fat. 

At about a month after the procedure, most people have definite reduction in fat and tightening of skin in the treated area.  This continues to improve over the next 3-5 months. It is an absolutely wonderful procedure!!!

Submental fullness due to fat beneath the chin can impact a broad range of both men and women and because the condition can be genetic and resistant to diet and exercise.2 But there's KYBELLA, the first and only FDA-approved injectable treatment that is available by prescription only, that has been proven to improve the appearance of moderate to severe fat beneath the chin by physically destroying fat cells in the treatment area. In two pivotal clinical studies for KYBELLA, reductions in submental fat volume were observed more frequently in the KYBELLA treated group of 514 patients compared to the placebo group (508 patients) as measured by both clinician and patient ratings. In addition, visual and emotional impacts of submental fat (happy, bothered, self-conscious, embarrassed, looking older or overweight) were evaluated using a 6-question survey and 79% of 1 and 2-grade composite responders reported satisfaction after 12 weeks post final treatment compared with 33.6% of patients who received placebo.

KYBELLA - The most common side effects are swelling, bruising, pain, numbness, redness, and areas of hardness in the treatment area. Those who are injected on a Thursday or Friday are back at work on Monday!

Kybella the only Injection solution to remove Double Chin!  Double Chin takes away the shape of your face. It's not very attractive, when one sees the double chin, nobody likes that and this is what we mostly hear from prospect clients.

Double chins can be caused by a few things, including weight gain that increases the amount of fat in your neck and chin, heredity, and age. There’s just a stubborn area of fat and Kybella really addresses that. They don't have to undergo surgery. They can have a non-surgical procedure that permanently reduces the fat.

It's this compound that just basically breaks down your fat molecules so then they're dead, permanently dead, and your body just absorbs the fat away.

Liposuction is another option to combat a double chin, but it's surgical, requires anesthesia and is more expensive at around $6,000.

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Since CoolSculpting Freezes Fat to Kill It, Why Not Just Repeatedly Apply Ice Bags?

Since CoolSculpting Freezes Fat to Kill It, Why Not Just Repeatedly Apply Ice Bags?

The hot way to melt fat is actually cool. So cool, in fact, the process employs technology that is only one degree above hypothermia. It's called CoolSculpting.

The procedure is quick, painless and effective. Typically, each hour-long treatment kills about 25 percent of the fat cells in the targeted area. For most, one treatment does the trick.

Women and men are really looking for noninvasive fat removal by having their fat frozen instead of

Expensive and very invasive Liposuction.   People who have had the procedure describe it as a tingling or pressure sensation as the fat is sucked into the machine, then a coldness while the temperature drops to around 14 degrees.

Unlike liposuction, CoolSculpting gives targeted results without incisions, anesthesia or recovery time. Patients can stop by for a treatment on their lunch hour — eat, check their email and be on their way.

How the technology was devised:

The science of freezing away fat based on two concepts:

1.            First, Popsicle panniculitis — a condition where children who leave Popsicles in their mouths too long lose some of the fat in their cheeks .

2.            2. Butter, because it becomes solid when it's cooled.

 Dr. Anderson came up with a noninvasive machine that will target and freeze fat without damaging the skin, essentially killing some of the fat cells. Then, over the course of several weeks, the body releases the dead fat cells through its normal elimination process

The importance of Healthy habits:

CoolSculpting should not be used as a weight-loss program. It doesn't mean you can't gain the weight back although, if patients put on weight, they do all over, not just in one spot, because gain weight distribute largely to all body area.

You are obviously a curious and thoughtful person, and ask a question that the original creators of the CoolSculpting device had to consider carefully.

There is a misconception that has been widely circulated, perhaps for the sake of simplicity, that Coolsculpting freezes fat. This is not actually the case. The device has been carefully and cleverly designed to extract heat from the tissues via the application to the skin of cold, but not freezing, plates.  The temperature of the skin in contact with the plates is continuously monitored throughout the entire procedure, and the temperature of the plates altered according to that feedback such that the skin and fat will never freeze but rather be chilled. 

Applying something frozen to the skin, you might reach temperatures that would injure fat cells, but you would also get frostbite in the overlying skin. If you were to apply something not quite frozen to the skin, it would rapidly warm up and you would never reach a temperature cold enough in the fat layer to injure the fat cells.

What about the power behind the DualSculpting technique? The nonsurgical advancement known as Coolsculpting has been a blessing to thousands who have tried endless diets and beating themselves up at the gym or with extreme exercise classes. The beauty of Coolsculpting is that it destroys unwanted fat with no downtime and keeps on working months after you have the treatment.

By delivering controlled, precise cooling to the unwanted bulges, fat cells are cooled to the point of destruction and eliminated naturally through the body. With DualSculpting, this process is performed on different sides of your body at the same time. Each Coolsculpting device holds the targeted areas between two panels and takes the fat cells down to just above the freezing point. This causes the cells to shrink because they can’t stand low temperatures.

Thanks to an advance in CoolSculpting technology Dualsculpting, treatment with the new machines is only about 30 minutes an area. DualCoolScupting is a great option for small areas of unwanted fat. The fat reduction that results is real, but subtle, and occurs during the three to four months after treatment. CoolSculpting is not considered a weight-loss procedure. It's for localized body sculpting and can be repeated in order to further results and treat to transformation. Traditional approaches like liposuction in comparison with CoolSculpting; it is a very intense, costly, painful and long downtime procedure. Besides that CoolSculpting cost 75% less than liposuction making it a clear choice for elimination of localized bulk fat area on the waistline, underarms, under chin, legs and back side.

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Chemical Peel for Acne Scars:

Chemical Peel for Acne Scars

Chemicals peels can be a permanent solution if medium to strong peels are performed. They cause the skin to exfoliate and produce fresh new skin cells. There are different peels of varying strengths based on the results that you want. Usually a series of peels are needed and gradual improvement is noted. Remember, mild or even weaker moderate peels are often not sufficient scarring and are better for skin texture, tone, or pigment changes.

Other options for treating scars include: microdermabrasion, microneedling, subcision, and laser resurfacing. Consult with Med Spa Doctor who treats acne scarring on what procedure would work best with your needs.

The Vi Peel at Suddenly Slimmer Spa in Phoenix and Scottsdale helps reduce the appearance of skin discoloration signs of aging, helps reverse sun damage, clears acne, and diminishes acne scars.

Vi Peel™ represents a true breakthrough, rendering other facial skin peels obsolete. The Vi Peel™ is safe, simple, practical and virtually painless, with superior results.

Physicians ultimately achieve “true repair" for their patients without hindering their fast paced lifestyle. Patients return periodically, with maintenance protocols between office visits, for optimum results.

Vi Medical Peel’ proprietary formula gives dramatic results with minimal discomfort or downtime. A simple, practical three to four minute Vi Peel application produces dramatic results in only seven days. Caring for the skin requires just two to four visits per year for the Vi Peel, followed by maintenance using the Obagi or Vi Derm Skin Care System.

Vi Medical Peel Reduces Age Spots, Freckles, Acne, Wrinkles. The Vi Peel is the finest peel you will ever experience!

Improve the tone, texture and clarity of your skin, reduce or eliminate age spots, freckles, and hyper-pigmentation, including melasma, soften lines and wrinkles, clear acne skin conditions, reduce or eliminate acne scars, stimulate the production of collagen, for firmer, more youthful skin. Why wait weeks or months for results when you can enjoy beautiful, radiant skin in about a week? VI Peel Special!

For best results we recommend to do a series of 3

Time: 30 minutes

Laser Skin Resurfacing - If you are looking to rejuvenate dull skin, smooth away wrinkles, acne scars, tighten loose skin, then laser skin resurfacing may be the right treatment for you. Utilizing the power of your skin's own natural rejuvenation ability, laser skin resurfacing can give you smoother, tighter, and more vibrant skin.

Lift away years with fractional Laser Skin Resurfacing

, Now there's a brand new way to reverse the signs of aging and ensure your inner radiance shines through. It's called Pixel Fractional Laser Skin Resurfacing, and it can dramatically revitalize your skin. This innovative aesthetic laser treatment helps counteract years of sun damage or acne scarring. It provides noticeable results, often in as little as a single treatment. You'll see dramatic improvement in the tone and texture of your skin

When treating acne scarring it is often necessary to build a treatment regimen that incorporates several modalities to help lessen the appearance of acne scars.  First, It is of utmost importance that you have a skin care regimen built to maintain the health of your skin that will aid in reducing future breakouts(since this is the root cause of the scarring). A series of chemical peels will offer some correction, but incorporating collagen induction therapy(microneedling) and/or laser resurfacing into the clinical treatment plan will promote an optimal result. Unfortunately, there is no permanent solution when it comes to skin. However, maintenance will be key to retaining the correction you achieve.

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