Everywhere I turned this weekend, it seemed I read another article about using combinations of treatments for aging, sun damaged skin. It started Friday with the delivery of the June issue of Dermatologic Surgery Journal. An excellent and very comprehensive review article, “Recent Advances in Combination Treatments for Photoaging: Review of the Literature”, compiled the information from a multitude of scientific studies confirming that the best results are arrived by numerous treatments of various types when using a “knife free” and “minimal down time" approach. As always, the maintenance of the improvement from these treatments has to be good home care, health and sun habits. Basically, this isn’t new information but one is always searching for the magic, one time, do it all, treatment. Some examples of these combo’s are:
1. Botox/Dysport & fillers.
2. Botox/Dysport, laser resurfacing & fillers.
3. Fractionated CO2 laser resurfacing & chemical peels or microderm & pulsed dye lasers.
4. Thermage skin tightening & fillers &/or fractionated CO2 laser resurfacing, liposuction & Thermage.
In my 30 plus years of Dermatology, many of these treatments have singly risen to the top in popularity and evolved in technique and effectiveness. Then they were sidelined as another came into the lime light. Now the combinations appear to be the best choice for help with slowing down the birthday fairy’s assaults. Even with face, neck and eye lid lifts, the texture and color of the overlying skin still needs addressed (kind of like car detailing or hair color along with the cut).
Soooooo regular, multiple types of treatments are available to keep the “factory” of skin cells busy.
Dr. Ann
P.S. I really enjoy sharing these “treats” with my patients.
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