Preventing hyperpigmentation in the Summer.
Although patchy brown pigmentation of the sun exposed face, neck and décolleté is a year-round concern, the fun in the sun of Summer can leave your skin with a …
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The FDA did NOT state that sunscreen is unsafe!
Recent reports in the news have once again confused consumers about “the safety of sunscreens”. Headlines reported “unsafe levels of sunscreen chemicals found in blood”. The actual FDA …
New Fillers mean Less Needles!
Injectable fillers are used to correct the loss of volume and wrinkling that comes with aging. The “deflation of aging” is similar to taking the air out of a …
Deb Does Dermatology
Do Plastic Surgeons do Dermatology? Dermatology is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of skin disorders. Plastic Surgery is a specialty concerned with disorders of many parts of the …
Atypical Mole Treatment
Some moles called “atypical”, are possible precursors to melanoma. About 5-10% of the population have these, and the recognition, monitoring and proper treatment of them has the potential to …
Everything You Need to Know about Fillers
So how do those Beautiful People in Hollywood do it? Is it surgery and Botox? Well sure, some of it is, but fillers are a necessary part of the …
Don’t sweat it! Reducing Hyperhidrosis
Hyperhidrosis, or excessive sweating, results from over-stimulation of the sweat glands by the nervous system. Most commonly the sweating is restricted to the palms of the hands or the …
What are Growth Factors and how do they “wake up” mature skin?
Growth factors are proteins that stimulate cell growth and function. They trigger cells to divide, grow, and produce proteins such as collagen, the basic building block of skin. With …
What’s That Spot?
The brown pigmented lesions called “moles” have been a fact of life for many individuals through history, but the rapid increase in melanoma rates have changed the importance of …