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Subcision, which stimulates new native collagen and elastin fiber synthesis, can be used to elevate and smooth a dimpled chin, much as it can elevate and smooth other Indented spots, such as boxcar, roling scars and chickenpox scars. In cases where the chin muscles are quite active, the use of a few wellplaced microdroplets of Botox can be used in the chin to calm the chin muscles and allow the subcision to work unhindered. You would be wise to make sure to consult with a board certified cosmetic dermatologist and best of luck.
Hello! My name is Jessica, I am a physician assistant, and one of the providers at Aesthetic Skin - Winnetka & Chicago. This is a great question. Yes, this is a good plan to begin with as a general staging approach, and many acne-scar treatments are in a similar order — starting with targeted w...
Our office has many different treatments for scars depending on the depth of atrophy or hypertrophy. Scars require a combination approach using our HI DEF protocol which uses a combination of lasers, topical scar modulation, and RF treatments to pixelate scars, improve contour, reduce...
I have been performing subcisions for cellulite dimpling for three decades. There are several points to made here that are worth noting before the baby is thrown out prematurely with the bathwater in favor of less well proven, expensive, "bells and whistles" energy-based approaches whose uses...
I’m going to assume that the abbreviation TL stands for a thread lift. If the thread lift ended up putting tension on your SMAS layer and tightening this can deepen nasolabial it’s the same reason why defaults are sometimes made worse by having a facelift that includes tightening of the SMAS lay...
Fractional laser is an amazing and highly effective treatment in our office. We use the laser treatment to help with acne scars, large pores, fine wrinkles, tissue collagen loss, scars, sebaceous hyperplasia, active acne, and for brightening dark pigmentation. Although there are very strong...
I don’t think subcisionSurgery is going to fix your problem. Simply cutting this car tissue is only going to make more scar tissue. Most likely the only way to improve the contour is to open up the entire scar and remove all this scar tissue all the way down to the capsule It’s a little dif...
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