Surgical vs non surgical face lift: how do they compare?

Non surgical face lifts provide more natural results to rejuvenate the face without the complications. Though the results are more subtle, achieving a refreshed younger look is very possible without surgery.

Most people consider a more discrete non surgical approach an advantage because they do not want it obvious they have had work done.

What are the pros and cons of a surgical vs non surgical face lift?

A non surgical face lift avoids the risks of surgery.

Though the skill level for surgical face lifts is very high there is always inherent risks with surgery.

Bruising and risk of infection after the operation, risk of scaring and risks associated with anaesthetic.

A non surgical face lift avoids complications of surgery: there is no risk of scars and though bruising does occur, it is insignificant compared to full face surgery.

Recovery from non surgical face lift is quick.

Recovering from a surgical face lift will generally take 4- 6 weeks with careful nurturing of wounds, bruising and swelling. However if the post surgery period is complicated it can involve months rather than weeks.

Non surgical face lifts however can be performed in lunch hours or after work. Though it is advised to take one to three days off after the procedure, some people return to work the next day with concealer to camouflage any bruising.

Non surgical face lifts give a very natural result.

A Surgical face lift can last 7-10 years, however the results are variable and more often will dramatically change your intrinsic “look”. Some people dislike the tight and permanent surprised appearance that can occur after the procedure.

Non surgical face lift:

rejuvenation effects temporary so you need to look at top ups to maintain a refreshed appearance

results are more subtle but effective

does not alter your basic appearance but enhances your face with a more youthful and fresh look.

Non surgical face lift involves a combination of muscle relaxing treatments and dermal fillers.

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Frustratingly, with TGA regulations in Australia, it is illegal for us to name any cosmetic treatments used for non surgical face lifts on our website. They are class S4 medication to be administered only by a Doctor or Nurse with training, they have approval for cosmetic use and a well established safety profile.

Do You Want To Know If You Are Suitable For A Non Surgical Face Lift?

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answer your questions and explain the best approach to refresh your face.

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Facial redness is a common cause of concern for people. Perhaps because redness is associated with embarrassment it can become a real cosmetic and social concern and though harmless people actively seek treatments to reduce redness.

What causes facial redness?

Redness of the face occurs when small vessels normally located under the skin rise to the surface. The vessels can present in a variety of forms and from different causes:

1. Facial rosacea: redness from rosacea is in fact from a permanent dilation of small blood vessels under the skin. It presents initially as a tendency to flush easily, but progresses over years to a permanent state with red blotches or spots or more commonly diffuse facial redness.

Facial rosacea affects the nose, cheeks and chin more prominently and though the underlying cause is not really understood treatment of the redness from rosacea is the same as for other vessel causes.

2. Broken capillaries appear as isolated red spots or diffuse redness affecting the cheeks, nose, chin and even cause the red neck and chest we characteristically see in Australia. They are caused from sun damage.

3. Spider veins are a common cause of redness around the nose, on cheeks and chest. They tend to be more isolated and present as a red line on the face or start burst red spots on the cheeks and chest. These are also caused from sun damage and other trauma to the skin.

How to reduce facial redness?

Reducing facial redness involves treating the underlying cause, ie getting rid of the surface vessel and is most effectively achieved with intense pulsed light treatments.

How does Pulsed light treatments treat surface capillaries and reduce redness?

Intense pulsed light therapy is a revolutionary treatment using only visible light pulsed onto the skin. The light is absorbed by elements with colour in the skin, ie the red from the blood vessels. Once the light energy hits the vessels it turns to heat energy and shuts the vessel down.

Generally 4 treatments are effective to reduce face redness to a cosmetically acceptable level. It is possible to eliminate the vessels completely or at the very least see a vast reduction in number and size giving a very satisfactory cosmetic outcome.

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Increasingly men are seeking lip enhancement procedures. Once the domain of women now men across all professions irrespective of sexual orientation are getting lip filler enhancement.

Why do men choose lip enhancement procedures?

They may be unhappy with the shape or symmetry of their lips or simply want a little more volume. Technique becomes very important when enhancing mens lips and it is essential to seek someone with experience.

Dr Victoria Timchik at SkinRevision has specific interest
in lip enhancement for men.

“The trick with lip enhancements in men is to maintain masculine characteristics”.

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Frustratingly, with TGA regulations in Australia, it is illegal for us to name any lip filler injections on our website. They are class S4 medications to be administered by a Doctor or Nurse with training. They have approval for cosmetic use and established safety profile.

Want to know if lip enhancement is right for you?
Come in for a free clinical evaluation with Dr Victoria Timchik.
Call us on (07) 33505447 for your free evaluation or email to ask us any questions.

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Facial Rejuvenation is a broad term that is commonly applied to several different treatment modalities.

Rejuvenation means to renew and what all of these treatments have in common is that you can achieve a refreshed look without surgery. Generally speaking non surgical facial rejuvenation treatments can be broken down into:

Treatment of wrinkles: Anti-wrinkle injections

Treatment for volume loss: Dermal Fillers and Non surgical facelifting treatments.

Treatment of pigmentation, capillaries and texture or surface skin changes: Photorejuvenation
or IPL photorejuvenation

Anti-wrinkle treatments.

This is the most common and arguably the most effective cosmetic treatment performed today.

Forehead lines, eye wrinkles or crows feet and frown lines are best treated with a simple lunchtime procedure to relax the muscles and smooth the surface skin. Smoothing wrinkles in particular areas of the face gives a refreshed and younger look simply.

Volume replacement or non surgical face lifting approach.

It is not commonly realised that volume loss is the most aging process.

Flattening of cheekbones, jowl formation, naso-labial lines, marionette lines and lip wrinkles are all caused from volume loss and are best addressed with injectable fillers and non surgical face lifting treatments.

Depending on the area involved volume replacement involves plumping out lines and folds and lifting sagging caused from volume loss in the face. This can be viewed as a rejuvenation as well as preventing progression of an aged appearance.

Skin Rejuvenation.

Pigmentation, surface capillaries, fine lines and wrinkles, enlarged pores, skin roughening and colour changes can be treated with several different modalities variously aimed to renew skin collagen, get rid of unwanted colour changes and produce a smoother, healthier and younger skin surface.

Photorejuvenation or IPL photorejuvenation has become accepted as a means of rejuvenating the face and other parts of the body. Unlike laser rejuvenation there is no downtime and no prolonged healing. Intense pulsed light gives a progressive rejuvenation to restore a natural more even skin colour as well as creating a healthier skin quality and revitalised complexion.

Because it is so versatile it is a one stop shop to rejuvenating the surface of the skin. The results are more subtle than laser resurfacing, but because there is no downtime and the result afterward is a very natural skin appearance it is a preferred treatment for many.

Skin Care Rejuvenation.

Though there are no miracle cures for wrinkles and sagging there are a handful of skin products that have research base to show they will reverse some aging to the skin and rejuvenate skin texture and quality. Everyone should be using active ingredients on their skin to prevent aged appearance and retard the progression of changes from aging.

I have written two articles as a guide to help you search through the quagmire that is Cosmetic Industry hype and advertising. These are worth reading before you purchase any product that promises ‘to get rid of your wrinkles”. What products do help with wrinkles AND save time on money on skin care products

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S IPL skin rejuvenation renews the skin appearance: treating pigmentation, broken capillaries, premature aging or sun damage of the face and body. At Skin Revision Brisbane we use the Palomar S IPL system for rejuvenation of a variety of skin concerns.

What does S IPL mean?

S IPL is intense pulsed light, it can get confusing with all the terms referring to intense pulsed light. IPL is perhaps the best known and simply refers to a laser like technology using light of specific wavelengths to bring about therapeutic changes in the skin.

It is quite amazing technology considering it is non invasive, causes no downtime and gently and progressively improves the colour and texture of skin restoring it to a more undamaged state.

Benefits Of Skin Rejuvenation Treatments

Softens fine wrinkles and renew skin health: by stimulating new collagen production

Improves the skin appearance of the skin: by reducing pore size and skin roughness

Improves the colour of the skin: removing freckles and fading skin pigmentation

Reduces redness by treating broken capillaries and rosacea

S IPL Skin Rejuvenation Can Treat Face and Body

Any area of the body can be treated with S IPL , most common is the face, neck,chest and hands however people commonly have their shoulders, arms and back treated as well.

Skin Rejuvenation at SkinRevision

Your safety is assured: all our treatments are supervised by a Doctor

The Palomar S IPL is a high end machine with sufficient power to ensure good therapeutic outcomes

Our staff have thousands of hours experience and thorough understanding of laser science

What Area Are You Interested In Rejuvenating?

Photorejuvenation of the face.
Rejuvenation of the neck and chest.
Hand Rejuvenation For Younger Looking Hands.
IPL treatments.

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Armpit sweating is a normal cooling mechanism of the body: however for a small percentage of people underarm perspiration is excessive to the point of discomfort and embarrassment.

Do you suffer from excessive underarm perspiration?

If you sweat in cold conditions, sweat in stressful situations or sweat when no one else is: you may suffer from a medical condition known as axillary hyperhidrosis.

What causes hyperhidrosis?

Hyperhidrosis is a condition where the bodies central temperature regulation system, the sympathetic nervous system is overactive, causing inappropriate sweating. Most commonly the armpit, hands or feet are affected. The face and other parts of the body are involved less often.

What can be done to stop excessive underarm perspiration?

Trying a long lasting aluminum chloride based antiperspirant like drichlor is the first step. If this fails or cannot be tolerated simple injections are very effective to stop the excessive underarm perspiration.

Injections To Stop Excessive Perspiration.

Injections more commonly used for cosmetic treatments have become an accepted successful treatment to stop the excessive underarm perspiration.

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Frustratingly, TGA regulations in Australia restrict naming of these injections as they are class S4 medication to be administered by a Doctor with training. They are approved for treatment of excessive sweating of the underarm and have a well established safety profile.

Call our Brisbane Clinic on 33505447 to book an appointment
to get rid of excessive underarm perspiration.

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How much does hyperhidrosis cost you?.
Antiperspirants for hyperhidrosis.
How to use antiperspirants correctly for hyperhidrosis.
Liposuction for excessive sweating of the armpit.
How to treat excessive underarm sweating.
Hyperhidrosis - what causes it and how to treat it.

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All facial pigmentation is caused from increased amounts of melanin deposited in the skin, however the treatment depends on the underlying cause and depth in the skin.

Common causes of facial pigmentation.

1. Sun damage
Most areas of Australia have high UV levels and the excessive exsposure results in abnormal facial pigmentation as well as premature aging with wrinkles and surface capillaries.

Pigmentation that results from sun damage: freckles, liver spots, age spots and sun spots.

2. Hormonal
All hormal pigmentation results from a combination of increased oestrogen and sun exsposure.
Melasma or chloasma caused by pregnancy or the pill has a maplike appearance common on the upper lip, cheeks and forehead.

Treatment of facial pigmentation depends on the cause.

Pigmentation that results from sundamage responds well to intense pulsed light treatment or laser treatment. Treatment of melasma responds better to skin lightening treatments or fractional laser treatments.

It is important that the cause of your facial pigmentation is correctly diagnosed so an appropriate treatment can be provided.

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Common causes of pigmentation and their treatment.

1. Freckles
Freckles are very responsive to the intense pulsed light treatments (IPL) and some types of lasers. Most people get excellent results with removal of freckles no matter what part of the body.

2. Sunspots, liver spots and age spots (Solar lentigos)

All of these terms refer to abnormal pigmentation that results from sun damage. They are commonly accompanied by premature aging of the skin with wrinkles and broken capillaries.

The best treatment for these pigmentation spots is pulsed light treatments or laser treatment.

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Spider Veins of the nose are a common cosmetic concern. They are thin surface capillaries that become visible anywhere on the face or body but the most common site is on or around the nose causing redness of the side or the entire nose.

How To Get Rid Of The Redness?

Spider veins around the nose tend to appear as faint lines that streak onto the cheek whereas veins on the nose tend to be more like a web giving the nose a diffuse red appearance. Intense Pulsed light treatment can be very effective to treat these vessels.

The light is pulsed onto the skin and is attracted to elements of colour in the skin, one of these is the red in spider veins and capillaries. Once the light energy is absorbed into the vessel it turns to heat energy causing damage to the vessel.

How To Hide Spider Veins Of the Nose

Like other facial capillaries, veins around the nose can be covered with a good quality mineral makeup.

At present we do not treat spider veins at SkinRevision

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Facial spider veins or capillaries occur in both women and men as a normal part of aging. There are however factors that make you more prone to them:

having fair skin

sun exposure

hormones of pregnancy and the pill

rosacea

Spider Veins On The Face Are Not Harmful

The appearance of spider veins on the face are a cosmetic not medical concern.

Most people have small veins (less than 2mm):

present as diffuse web of capillaries giving the face a red appearance

or isolated spider web spots

For these people treatment with intense pulsed light is generally effective.

At present we do not treat spider veins at SkinRevision

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