margie

I don't think the two should be compared. They are doing two different things here. Sometimes a person might need a little of both. The botox freezes the muscle so you stop moving it and making wrinkles. The restylane fills a deep wrinkle but you continue to move the forehead making wrinkles worse or making new ones.

Both the Zoom and bleaching trays with Opalescence are offered at our office. I would choose the Opalescence. It is more gentle and works well. I can get a deal on the product since I work in the office. Ebay sellers sell it cheap. I don't know how they do it. I see it being sold for less than the wholesale price at our office.

I had permanent makeup procedures for eyeliner and lips. I didn't have any problems, but can see how a lot of people can run into problems with lips. The mouth is so full of germs. I am a dental hygienist. Candida albicans can be in the mouth and on the skin. Asymptomatic means it is there but not causing any problems. Sometimes you might see small pinkish spots on skin around the mouth if it is on the skin, or pinkness in the crease of smile lines. Candida seems to like creases and weaknesses in skin. Most of the time you don't see anything at all. Saliva drools out of the mouth when you sleep. You can see stains on pillows. This is one way it gets colonized on the skin. Over the past several years, it seems we see more candida infections, and worse infections. In addition to prescription medications, things you can do to help get rid of it, or get it under control are 1) grapefruit seed oil, 2) paint the area with gentian violet, 3) use olive leaf extract. The dentist at my office has patients use the olive leaf extract two ways: brushing gums with it and swallowing the powder. You open the capsule and brush the powder down into the gum line. Swallow the powder - don't rinse it out. The gum pockets go down a few millimeters and the powder needs to make direct contact with the germs down there for best results. Patients later tell us that their other fungal infections got better, whether the other infection was GI, sinus, skin, or whatever. GI or systemic yeast infections can make a person feel tired or easily fatigued. Our office recommends Seagate brand olive leaf extract capules because they use cold pressed freshwater extraction to retain the high quality natural properties.

I have been considering getting smartlipo around my waistline. Nine years ago I had the traditional liposuction just on the lower abdomen. I didn't need a lot off. It took months or close to a year before I could really tell the difference. Other people I talked to who just needed little amounts off said it took a very long time for them to see that it did make a difference. People who had large amounts taken off could tell a difference much sooner. I am reading everything I can find about smart lipo. It seems that most of the physicians doing smart lipo are not plastic surgeons. I looked up smart lipo training, and it is offered in a two day training session. I am not comfortable with that. Plastic surgeons are trained for years on shaping the body. Since women here say the numbing injections are very painful and don't seem to work well for some of them, I think I would prefer to go back to an outpatient facility to be put to sleep. Most important to me is that the procedure be performed by a plastic surgeon who has years of experience body shaping with traditional liposuction.