Ready To Look Your Best This Summer?

By Stephen R. Kay, MD, FACS

Kay Plastic Surgery

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Ready To Look Your Best This Summer?

Summer is right around the corner and we want to feel and look our best during the summer months for vacations and social events. Here is a quick look at procedures that can help you look great over the summer months and thereafter.

Injectable soft tissue fillers can be used to correct lines in the skin and restore contour to the face giving a smoother, younger looking appearance. Fillers may be used alone or in combination with other cosmetic procedures. They offer quick and cost-effective facial improvement with little or no downtime.

Restylane, Radiesse, Sculptra, Lipostructure, and Juvederm are facial fillers that can restore lost volume and eliminate lines. Recovery time varies from none, to five days depending on the amount of treatment.

Botox improves lines and wrinkles by relaxing excess pull of facial expression muscles that give the appearance of fatigue, sadness, and aging. Deep forehead and brow frown lines, and smile lines around the eyes can be eliminated. The smooth and wrinkle-free skin remains for up to 6 months. There is no downtime when you have your Botox treatment.

Thermage is a non-surgical technique for tightening skin with no scars, no incisions and no downtime. It is also very effective for improving acne and reducing stretch mark. Thermage can tighten the forehead, eyes, cheeks, neck, arms, breasts, abdomen, and legs. You can return to work the next day.

Spider veins in the skin or smaller varicose veins under the skin can be eliminated with painless injections which cause the veins to shrink and disappear. There is no downtime for vein treatments. Get rid of those veins before summertime arrives.

Removes unwanted hair from eyebrows, upper lip, cheeks, neck, back, bikini area, arms, legs, and other areas of the body. It is popular with both men and women. There is no downtime.

Enhances the shape and size of breasts using saline or new generation of silicone breast implants, or a patients own body fat. Breast enhancement will improve your body image and restore a more youthful shape to your body this summer. Recovery time varies from several days to a week depending on the procedure.

Improves the contour of your arms, breasts, abdomen, back, buttocks, or legs. Liposuction can be combined with Thermage in a single or staged treatment to achieve better contour without surgical scars. Results can be dramatic and the downtime will depend on the areas being treated.