Facial Rejuvenation

00:00:07.574 --> 00:00:11.512 Facial rejuvenation is all of the things that you can do 00:00:11.578 --> 00:00:15.490 to make people look younger in the face. 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:18.752 That starts with the skin, but it also involves things 00:00:18.819 --> 00:00:19.920 like Botox and fillers. 00:00:19.987 --> 00:00:22.570 As we age, the face drops as we lose volume. 00:00:22.956 --> 00:00:26.293 Even facelifts, when we do a facelift, we replace that volume. 00:00:26.520 --> 00:00:28.529 That's why fillers have become so popular. 00:00:28.595 --> 00:00:31.210 The way I do fillers is I do it stepwise. 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.267 I don't want to do too much all at once. 00:00:33.534 --> 00:00:37.804 I think patients do better and it looks more natural 00:00:37.905 --> 00:00:40.507 if you can do it in a more stepwise manner, 00:00:40.574 --> 00:00:41.608 without overdoing it. 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:45.179 Botox is given this general name now, 00:00:45.245 --> 00:00:46.346 but it is not... 00:00:46.413 --> 00:00:49.049 It doesn't do everything that patients think it does. 00:00:49.116 --> 00:00:54.688 Botox, all it is, is a protein that goes in and makes the muscle, 00:00:54.755 --> 00:00:56.050 not contract. 00:00:56.120 --> 00:00:59.593 It is not a filler. It is not used to lift. 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:01.490 That's all it is: Botox. 00:01:01.862 --> 00:01:07.100 Patients will come in and ask, can I get Botox for some weird area? 00:01:07.334 --> 00:01:08.802 That's not what Botox does. 00:01:09.240 --> 00:01:13.307 Botox is very good for the upper third of the face 00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:18.010 to help minimize the contractions that cause wrinkles. 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:20.781 If you already have a wrinkle that's a crease, 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.049 then the Botox may help it from deepening, 00:01:24.115 --> 00:01:25.619 but it's not going to fill it, 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:27.800 so you might need a filler at that point. 00:01:27.866 --> 00:01:31.091 Or you might need a facelift, and you filler more to fill 00:01:31.158 --> 00:01:34.228 the spaces that have depleted from volume loss or aging, 00:01:34.720 --> 00:01:37.698 and also to give patients more of an accent 00:01:37.764 --> 00:01:40.767 to make them look youthful but not overfilled. 00:01:40.834 --> 00:01:44.538 I don't have a single patient ever who has gone out and who is walking 00:01:44.605 --> 00:01:46.273 around right now looking overfilled. 00:01:46.440 --> 00:01:48.942 I hate that look, and it's not something I do. 00:01:49.240 --> 00:01:52.679 I also think Botox can be done and I do it this way 00:01:52.746 --> 00:01:55.449 where it looks natural, believe it or not, 00:01:56.383 --> 00:02:01.970 where you can still have some movement, some animation, without being overdone. 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:04.725 They know that I'm going to give them a very natural result. 00:02:05.592 --> 00:02:06.660 We're going to talk through it. 00:02:06.727 --> 00:02:08.362 We're going to come up with a skincare plan, 00:02:08.920 --> 00:02:11.598 and we're going to utilize some of the newer technologies 00:02:11.899 --> 00:02:17.037 to help them slow down the aging process and maybe even reverse it. 00:02:17.104 --> 00:02:21.475 By doing those things in that way, they never feel overdone, 00:02:21.542 --> 00:02:24.044 or overfrozen, or overfilled. 00:02:24.645 --> 00:02:29.082 It looks very natural, and they're able to not have anybody really know. 00:02:29.151 --> 00:02:32.186 It's part of the skin or facial rejuvenation stuff that I do. 00:02:32.440 --> 00:02:34.988 The most common thing, besides Botox and fillers, 00:02:35.055 --> 00:02:36.323 is I do a lot of FaceTite. 00:02:36.390 --> 00:02:40.327 A lot of times, if a patient comes in and they don't really want a facelift, 00:02:41.261 --> 00:02:43.430 and they have decent skin quality, 00:02:43.664 --> 00:02:46.834 you can do FaceTite and really get an amazing result 00:02:47.568 --> 00:02:50.930 with almost no downtime and no incision. That's tough to beat. 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.410 That's a really big advancement in the last five years. 00:02:54.480 --> 00:02:58.250 Face and neck lifts, I do also. I do them pretty regularly. 00:02:58.320 --> 00:03:00.722 Anybody who is doing a facelift and neck lift, 00:03:00.788 --> 00:03:04.518 with the newer age results and technique, 00:03:04.585 --> 00:03:08.555 is fixing the underlying structures first. 00:03:08.622 --> 00:03:12.226 I do upper and lower eyelid lifts or blepharoplasties. 00:03:12.659 --> 00:03:16.129 Upper eyelid blepharoplasty is one of the easiest procedures to do. 00:03:16.760 --> 00:03:19.566 It is also actually heals faster than probably everything else. 00:03:19.633 --> 00:03:21.635 It heals within like 2-3 weeks pretty much.