A procedure that is commonly called Botox is in fact a set of poison (literally) injections. The poison’s scientific name is Botulinum Toxin. This kind of toxin is used to paralyze facial mimic muscles that are responsible for  facial expression and mimic wrinkles – notorious crow’s feet, horizontal forehead creases, frown lines. Botox helps to make this mimicry less expressive, which further results in partial straightening (temporary) of those wrinkles.

This cosmetic effect of Botox was discovered randomly. Originally Botox was used to treat eye tic and one of the doctors noted that toxin had a weird side effect of wrinkle straightening. Read More…

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Tightening face skin with suture suspension is a simple and genius idea that was realizes in thread lift procedure.

They started implanting rejuvenation threads in 1970-ies France. Original threads were made of gold – non-reactive material, which does not cause allergy or resistance with most people. Though golden threads are still successfully used in anti–aging surgery, there were multiple new developments in thread lift technology. Now threads are made from propylene, capron, and re-absorbable materials. There are threads with cogs, knots, and barbs. Nowadays thread lift method continues to get more adepts and to evolve, which is not surprising: thread lift is still the least invasive of surgical rejuvenation procedures, and it gives results comparable to facelift.

Let’s look at the variety of threads available out there to see what are the merits and drawbacks of each method. All contemporary thread lifts can be classified based on their texture, solvency as well as method of attaching them to skin.

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Thermage energized aesthetic medicine market as non-invasive alternative to surgical facelift. Why to undergo real operation? Why to trim away excess skin when we can treat facial tissues with Thermage for the same effect? (Thermage works by heating and tightening tissues that got stretched).

Thermage results are really impressive. So much so that some clinics initially got cautious of this technology and consequently afraid to buy Thermage devices. Nowadays, we have enough experience using Thermage and every decent center of aesthetic medicine both has it in stock and successfully uses it. However, plastic surgeons who work with traditional anti-aging techniques are resistant to operate Thermage patients.

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