Edmond Wood, MD - Account Suspended

There are no studies specifically addressing this issue to my knowledge, but that said, it is best to wait at least 4 weeks before doing another treatment whose purpose is, at least partly, the stimulation of the healing cascade. In other words, you lose some of the collagen-stimulating effects of one treatment if you start another treatment before the first is through the healing phase, 1 month. In my practice I perform any energy based (EBD), i.e. heat, prior to threads or, if threads done first, I wait about 6 months after to avoid weakening my precious threads. Ideally the EBD treatment is performed first, then immediately (same day) or 2-3 months later, the thread lift is performed. This allows maximum collagen stimulation from both procedures and avoids heating, and thus weakening, your threads.

EdWoodMD

Do you sleep on your left side? If so, try to sleep on back, always. This is called a nasojugal groove and is typically associated with deep malar fat pad atrophy (lessened volume) and gravitational descent, possibly compounded by side sleeping. A number of treatments are used, the easiest and usually sufficient is filler. A high cross-linked filler is deposited deep right at the cheek bone apex and in the groove. If worse, may need additional deep filler injection into malar fat pad. Other options may be thread lift to reposition descending tissue to more youthful position. Neither should be prohibitively expensive. Hope this helps!

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