New Year, Best You

By Sharleen St. Surin-Lord, MD

Visage Dermatology and Aesthetic Center

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New Year, Best You

We’ve all heard it before. The New Year brings on the feeling of a fresh start, a clean slate, and the opportunity to do things the right way. When is best to do all of this? Well, the first day of the New Year of course.

You are inundated with gym advertisements and car ads. Those are all great. What about your hair and your skin? Don’t they deserve love and attention? Don’t you deserve to look and feel your best? You skin is the largest organ on your body – the first thing people see when they look at you. Well, what is it saying? You may live to be 80 or 90, and I pray that you do so – healthily. If you are already 80 or 90 – Kudos! Here’s the thing. You will have the same skin you have today when you are that age. Thus, no matter what age you currenty are, or what stage of life you are in, the time to care for your hair and skin is now.

This does not entail major surgery. Minor, non-invasive tweeks can will make you look younger – as much as 5-10 years younger. If you do not want to look younger, you still deserve to look rejuvenated, energized, and not tired – whether you are male or female. Everyone deserves the gift of self-care.

If you look tired, a little “Bro-Tox” (for men) or Botox^® will get rid of frown and worry lines and the scowl that makes you look angry. A little filler (Restylane^® or Belotero^®) will fill in those laugh lines. Botox takes 10 minutes and filler takes 30 minutes – 5-10 years off without surgery and in 40 minutes. If your face is sagging, there is nothing like Ulthera to tighten and lift your face – without surgery. You can get all this done with numbing cream to reduce discomfort.

If you are losing your hair – men and women – there is no reason to suffer silently or just roll over and take it. Please schedule a consultation with a dermatologist to determine if there is a medical cause for your hair loss or if you can be treated with supplements and sprays. Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) is an amazing way to grow your own hair naturally, without surgery. Your blood is painlessly drawn with a small needle, spun down to extract your own stem cells and injected into your scalp (after numbing has set in), and your hair can grow back as soon as six weeks after the treatment.

If your double chin or your “fat rolls” are preventing you from making memories with your friends and loved ones by avoiding pictures, then get rid of them for good and without surgery with CoolSculpting^®.

New Year, best you! The best time to care for yourself is now. Get treated now, in the winter and hatch like a spring chicken in April.

Look good, feel great, ascend!^®