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Can botox and fillers make you look worse after they wear off?

Friday, September 4th, 2009

People tend  to forget about how they used to look like after they get their improvement from Botox (or dysport / botulinum toxin / bo tox) and Facial Fillers (such as juvederm / restylane / radiesse / perlane / cosmoderm / artefill / sculptra / alloderm).  This is a very common occurence.  Hence when the effects wear off, people tend to think they look worse when in fact they are just returning to a previous less optimal state. In fact, botox will only help make the muscles weaker the more you do it which will essentially leave the muscle less likely to make more wrinkles. Fillers also have a possibility to make things better even after the effects are long expected to be gone.  Sometimes, fillers develop scar tissue around it which makes the fillers last longer and hence the beneficial effects last longer.  The scar tissue prevents the body from breaking it down. This is something that I have noticed in many patients.  But, back to the question, i don’t think your appearance is usually made to look worse after these temporary treatments. In general, botox can improve the appearance of dynamic wrinkles (wrinkle treatment / facial line treatment) while fillers can improve more static wrinkles by filling in loss volume.

I refined an amazing volumizing procedure called “the YoungLift”. This is an innovative technique that volumizes your face to bring out the younger and natural you without looking like you had something done. This is not a facelift and requires no incisions. Only pinpoint puncture sites are used and these heal imperceptibly. The YoungLift can be done without general anesthesia and without drains, and large bandages. You also have sometimes a lot less downtime and discomfort compared with traditional facelift procedures. I employ the very best techniques from around the world into one volumizing procedure and I use my internationally acclaimed understanding of facial beauty to create the youthful volume you once had.

Thanks for reading, Dr Young

Dr Young specializes in Facial Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery and is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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Can fat injections be permanent? What are some options.

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Fat injections (fat transfer / fat grafting / fat augmentation) can be “permanent”. One thing to realize is that fat injections and anything in life aren’t necessarily permanent and forever.  Fat injection results can last many years if done right.  Just like the fat that you had when you were younger, they eventually went away after a while as you aged.  This same process will eventually happen to the fat that you have injected.  Over many years, the fat will get metabolized as you age but the results may last for 10 years or more.  Another option of volumizing is through facial implants.  Silicone is the most common implant that people place within the face and these implants can last essentially forever.  Facial implants (silicone implants / cheek implants / jaw implants / facial implantation / chin implants) are more of a permanent option but the drawbacks are having a foreign material placed within your face and it does require more incisions and likely recovery time than fat injections.  If you can handle the idea of putting something foreign into your face this is a great option.  Silicone implants have been placed into thousands of patients around the world and has an excellent track record for safety.  You can see more on fat injections on my website and youtube account.

I refined an amazing volumizing procedure called “the YoungLift”. This is an innovative technique that volumizes your face to bring out the younger and natural you without looking like you had something done. This is not a facelift and requires no incisions. Only pinpoint puncture sites are used and these heal imperceptibly. The YoungLift can be done without general anesthesia and without drains, and large bandages. You also have a lot less downtime and discomfort compared with traditional facelift procedures. I employ the very best techniques from around the world into one volumizing procedure and I use my internationally acclaimed understanding of facial beauty to create the youthful volume you once had.

thanks for reading Dr Young

Dr Young specializes in Facial Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery and is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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Fat grafting: does it last and how long

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

This is an answer to a question that someone had for me:

How long does Fat grafting to upper eyelids last?How long the result would last?

Fat grafting (fat transfer / fat augmentation / fat injections / liposculpture / liposuction and injection) is the ideal permanent filler substance and can last if done right. Fat is living tissue that requires care from the part of the surgeon to insure survival for the long term.  If the fat survives past 3-6 months, the fat will likely stay in there for many years.  Many people have shown that grafted fat can last for 8-15 years.  The loss of the fat is generally gradual just like your own fat that you had when you were young.  You will always look younger than a twin that never had it done.  To make fat survive you have to be gentle to the fat. I don’t spin the fat, freeze it, wash it, nor add too much ingredients to the mix when I harvest the fat.  Also I place small amounts in many different layers.  The other authors are correct in saying that the there may be the need to do some touchups to the areas for more volume. In the most simplest words, as you age you lose blood vessels for that was supplying the original volume and hence the new volume that you place will require more blood flow that may not exist.  Hence a building up of the volume may be needed.

I refined an amazing volumizing procedure called “null”. This is an innovative technique that volumizes your face to bring out the younger and natural you without looking like you had something done. This is not a facelift and requires no incisions. Only pinpoint puncture sites are used and these heal imperceptibly. The YoungLift can be done without general anesthesia and without drains, and large bandages. You also have a lot less downtime and discomfort compared with traditional facelift procedures. I employ the very best techniques from around the world into one volumizing procedure and I use my internationally acclaimed understanding of facial beauty to create the youthful volume you once had.

thanks for reading Dr Y

Dr Young specializes in Facial Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery and is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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Eyelifts / Browlifts / Fillers and how to make the eye look younger again.

Monday, August 10th, 2009

There are many procedures out there that can be done to improve the way the eye looks and to reverse some of the signs of aging (including droopy eyes, extra eyelid skin, tired looking eyes, puffy eyes, eye bags, eye wrinkles).  An eyelift / blepharoplasty (or eye lift / eye plastic surgery) procedure is one way and this entails removing skin from the upper eyelid. Sometimes this entails removing skin, muscle, fat and also recreating the eyelid crease.  Recreating the eyelid crease is perhaps the one thing that can really make an eye look better by reconstituting this crease which can really open up the eye and it appearance.  This is a really complicated part of an eye lift and requires understanding the anatomy to a greater degree and an increase level of expertise.  I have a lot of experience recreating the crease and I have done this with my Asian clientele but I also apply it to my caucasian clientele and other ethnicities.

Browlifts (or brow lift / forehead lift / brow plasty / browplasty / eye brow lift / eyebrow lift) are another way to open up the eye by pulling up the eyebrow to a more youthful position (other signs of aging include droopy eyebrows, hooded eye brows, extra eyelid skin).  This is done through incisions that are placed behind the hairline and hide really well.  Sometimes an incision in the eyelid crease is necessary to better expose the orbital bone above the eyelid and to allow a better approach to lift the eyebrow.  It is important for you to go to a surgeon that understandsFacial Beautyto get those excellent results.  You may have seen people who have a surprised look after a brow lift.  This is direct by product of our limited understanding of facial beuaty. I came up with a new theory on facial aesthetics / beauty which I think really answers some of the questions we have been wondering about facial beauty all of these years.

Fat Transferare all terms used to define a procedure that takes fat from somewhere else in your body and placed into your face or whereever you need more volume.  Fat grafting into the face can have amazing rejuvenative effects to the face by replacing lost volume in the face that have occured through aging.  When we age we lose fat, and our skin thickness gets thinner by losing tissue such as collagen, etc.  Fat grafting just replaces this volume. Fat can be more permanent.  Anything fat or volume that is present for more than 6 months to a year will last for many years, sometimes 8 years or more and up to 15 years. Basically, if you had a twin, you would always look younger than that twin if you had fat grafting and your twin didn’t.

Facial Fillers do the same thing as fat but they are just more temporary lasting 6 months to a year or more depending on the filler that use.  In general hyaluronic acids like restylane, juvederm, and perlane last from 6 months to a year. While Radiesse, a product of bone made up of calcium hydroxyapatite, can last up to year or more.

Both fat and fillers can be placed around the eye to really bring youth to the appearance of the eye.  But a knowledge of facial beauty is much more than half the battle in rejuvenating the eye.

I refined an amazing volumizing procedure called “the YoungLift”. This is an innovative technique that volumizes your face to bring out the younger and natural you without looking like you had something done. This is not a facelift and requires no incisions. Only pinpoint puncture sites are used and these heal imperceptibly. The YoungLift can be done without general anesthesia and without drains, and large bandages. You also have a lot less downtime and discomfort compared with traditional facelift procedures. I employ the very best techniques from around the world into one volumizing procedure and I use my internationally acclaimed understanding of facial beauty to create the youthful volume you once had.

Dr Young specializes in Facial Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery and is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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What do you do for lower eyelid bags, dark circles for someone in their lates 30’s early 40’s?

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Anullcan (or lower eyelid lift / lower eyelid blepharoplasty / lower eyelift / lower eyelid pinch) help by taking away extra skin and removing fat in the lower eyelid (this can also help lower eyelid bags, dark circles, puffy eye bags, dark under eyes). But instead of a lower blepharoplasty, I would consider fillers of some sort to the lower eyelid and cheek area.  What I see in many patients is the volume deficiency at the junction between your lower eyelid and cheek area.  When you age, you start to lose volume in the cheek area by losing fat and losing skin thickness and tissue within the skin.  A lower blepharoplasty could help the transition from your lower lid and cheek area. But a lot of times this procedure can make you look more hollow. I get a lot patients that have this issue after a lower eyelid blepharoplasty.  The better option is to fill the deficiency withFacial Fillers like restylane, juvederm, radiesse, perlane and even better for a long term solution fat injections.  I refined a procedure for volumizing called the YoungLift that does the same but, in my opinion, better that other volumizing procedures.

I refined an amazing volumizing procedure called “the YoungLift”. This is an innovative technique that volumizes your face to bring out the younger and natural you without looking like you had something done. This is not a facelift and requires no incisions. Only pinpoint puncture sites are used and these heal imperceptibly. The YoungLift can be done without general anesthesia and without drains, and large bandages. You also have a lot less downtime and discomfort compared with traditional facelift procedures. I employ the very best techniques from around the world into one volumizing procedure and I use my internationally acclaimed understanding of facial beauty to create the youthful volume you once had.

Thanks for reading, Dr Young

Dr Young specializes in Facial Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery and is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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What are the options for sunken cheeks besides temporary dermal fillers?

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

This is a questions I answered for someone that was wondering what option there were for sunken cheeks besides temporary Facial Fillers. Fat Transfer or Facial Implants can give you the long term volume you desire in the cheek.

Sunken cheeks is a natural aging process.  When you age you lose fat in your cheeks and this can lead to your tissues descending, wrinkles developing, folds developing, lower eyelid fat protruding, eyelid bags, etc.  Dermal fillers like restylane, juvederm, radiesse, perlane, are temporary and last from 6 months to a year or more.  Of these fillers radiesse is a bone product made up of calcium hydroxyapatite while the others are made up of hyuloronic acid.  There are more permanent fillers like silicone injections, and artefill.  The problem with permanent fillers is that they have the potential to cause infections, scarring and granulomas (balls of chronic infection) that can present years later after you think everything is okay.

Other more permanent options for sunken cheeks include fat injections and silicone implants.  Silicone is very compatible to place in the cheeks.  The silicone atom is one step below carbon on the atomic chart and hence makes it really compatible.  The infection rate with silicone is very low and its use has a long history of safety.  Silicone implants can be placed within the cheek to give a person a more permanent volumizing and lift up sunken cheeks.

Fat injections are another way of volumizing the cheek. Perrmanency depends on whether the fat survives.  This depends on many factors: technique, health of the patient, care of the patient after the procedure, etc.  If fat lasts for more than 6 months to a year, it will likely survive for many years sometimes 10-15 years or longer.

I refined an amazing volumizing procedure called “the YoungLift”. This is an innovative technique that volumizes your face to bring out the younger and natural you without looking like you had something done. This is not a facelift and requires no incisions. Only pinpoint puncture sites are used and these heal imperceptibly. The YoungLift can be done without general anesthesia and without drains, and large bandages. You also have a lot less downtime and discomfort compared with traditional facelift procedures. I employ the very best techniques from around the world into one volumizing procedure and I use my internationally acclaimed understanding of facial beauty to create the youthful volume you once had.

Dr Young is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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Can a forehead augmentation be done after a brow lift?

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Forehead augmentation can be done but can affect the results of previous browlifts. You can augment the forehead with silicone after a browlift.  One of the issues is that the augmentation will affect what was done with the previous browlift and you will sometimes need to refix the brows and allow them to fixate in the newer position.  Browlifts depend on the fixation of the bone to the bone covering and the soft tissue that covers the forehead.  When you dissect to implant something into the forehead it will break that bond.  Also with the implant fixating the brows to a new position will present some challenges as well depending on where the implant is placed.  Implants placed in the forehead can establish needed volume that is lossed with aging.  Most of the time, however, forehead augmentation is used to fill in defects from trauma and for reconstructive purposes. Also depending on what implant is used and the size you may need longer incisions such as a variation of the coronal incision that goes from ear to ear.  Not all of this incision is needed most of the time.  In terms of augmentation, you can use silicone sheets / blocks, Facial Fillers or fat augmentation.  Silicone and fat are the options that offer more of a longer lasting results with silicone being more permanent than fat.  Fat injections, however, can be done with no incisions most of the time with less downtime associated with long incisions. Augmenting the forehead can potentially help with wrinkles in the forehead, eyebrow drooping, extra eyelid skin and temple hollowing depending on how and where the augmentation is done.

I refined an amazing volumizing procedure called “the YoungLift”.  This is an innovative technique that volumizes your face to bring out the younger and natural you without looking like you had something done.  This is not a facelift and requires no incisions.  Only pinpoint puncture sites are used and these heal imperceptibly.  The YoungLift can be done without general anesthesia and without drains, and large bandages.  You also have a lot less downtime and discomfort compared with traditional facelift procedures.  Dr Young employs the very best techniques from around the world into one volumizing procedure and he uses his internationally acclaimed understanding of facial beauty to create the youthful volume you once had.

Dr Young is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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Non Surgical Face Lift

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

There are many questions out there regarding an alternative for a non surgical facelift.  There are ways to tighten up your face without making incisions.  One way to do this is to undergo a laser resurfacing. We have the lumenis Laser Resurfacing unit and this is proven to be the best one out there on the market. It is the safest and most versatile of all co2 laser units and this can improve your skin by decreasing the wrinkles, improving skin texture, decreasing pore size, tightening the skin and creating collagen under the skin surface to create some more youthful volume.  Co2 laser resurfacing can tighten your neck skin and laxity as well. One thing to remember is that the tightening from a non-surgical face lift with co2 resurfacing will be subtle as compared to a facelift but you can get some results from this.

The other options include using Botox , fillers, and fat injections that don’t require incisions.  Botox / Dysport is a neuromuscular agent that can make certain muscles weaker that helps decrease wrinkles that are from muscular contraction. I have a youtube video to show where you can have botox and how it can help.

When you age you tend to lose volume and this can be replaced with fillers that require injections as an option for a non surgical face lift. Facial Fillers are usually temporary, at least the safer ones and last from 6months to a year or more.  Restylane, Juvederm, Radiesse, Perlane are some options. These modes can be used for the wrinkles between the eyes called the Glabellar region, for the dark circles under the eyes, forLip Augmentation, and many other issues in the face.

Fat injection are another option for a non-surgical facelift and related to this is the YoungLift which I have refined.

I refined an amazing volumizing procedure called “the YoungLift”.  This is an innovative technique that volumizes your face to bring out the younger and natural you without looking like you had something done.  This is not a facelift and requires no incisions.  Only pinpoint puncture sites are used and these heal imperceptibly.  The YoungLift can be done without general anesthesia and without drains, and large bandages.  You also have a lot less downtime and discomfort compared with traditional facelift procedures.  Dr Young employs the very best techniques from around the world into one volumizing procedure and he uses his internationally acclaimed understanding of facial beauty to create the youthful volume you once had.

Dr Young is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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Non surgical option for jowls and neck lift?

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

The neck and jowls are harder to treat without some type of surgery but there are options. There are many different Laser Hair Removal out there that are tightening skin without large incisions. These, I think, are still in the experimental phase but some really believe in this mode of non surgical null. The results are usually subtle.  And require more than one treatment for better results. A traditional neck lift is the best way to pull up the jowls and neck laxity.  Other options include fat injections in the face to volumize the face to pull the jowls and some of the neck laxity away.  Fat injections in the face can do wonders to make one look younger and are a great option to avoid long incisions that you are worried about.

I refined an amazing volumizing procedure called “the YoungLift”.  This is an innovative technique that volumizes your face to bring out the younger and natural you without looking like you had something done.  This is not a facelift and requires no incisions.  Only pinpoint puncture sites are used and these heal imperceptibly.  The YoungLift can be done without general anesthesia and without drains, and large bandages.  You also have a lot less downtime and discomfort compared with traditional facelift procedures.  I employ the very best techniques from around the world into one volumizing procedure and he uses his internationally acclaimed understanding of facial beauty to create the youthful volume you once had. The YoungLift techniques can help with filling up the lips as well.  You can great results with fat injections in the lips.

Dr Young is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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Dark Circles, Jowls and whether a facelift of some sort can help

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

In terms of a null, you might be a little early to have one.  It would really be beneficial to see a picture of you without smiling. A facelift can lift your jowls and improve your nasolabial folds to some degree. it won’t help your dark circles, and bags under your eyes.  Most surgeons would advocate a lower eyelid blepharoplasty, but this could cause hollowing under your eyes and appear unnatural.  I would suggest filling your cheek and lower eyelid with some type of Facial Fillers.  With filler you could go with temporary fillers or try the YoungLift.  Fillers such as Restylane, Juvederm, Radiesse, Perlane, can all fill in the cheeks and partially the lower eyelid but are temporary and last 6months to a year or more.  Permanent fillers such as silicone and artefill are risky and I stay away from them.  Fat injections can help and if the fat survives for more than 6 months to a year it will stay there for years sometimes more than 10 years.

I refined an amazing volumizing procedure called “the YoungLift”.  This is an innovative technique that volumizes your face to bring out the younger and natural you without looking like you had something done.  This is not a facelift and requires no incisions.  Only pinpoint puncture sites are used and these heal imperceptibly.  The YoungLift can be done without general anesthesia and without drains, and large bandages.  You also have a lot less downtime and discomfort compared with traditional facelift procedures.  I employ the very best techniques from around the world into one volumizing procedure and he uses his internationally acclaimed understanding of facial beauty to create the youthful volume you once had. The YoungLift techniques can help with filling up the lips as well.  You can great results with fat injections in the lips.

Dr Young is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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