Think Preventatively and Age Beautifully: How to Balance Short and Long-Term Cosmetic Treatments
At H&B we believe a holistic approach is key to optimal results; when it comes to beauty, health and longevity, a 360 degree approach is essential. While the media tends to encourage the quick fix, we’ve found the most rewarding outcomes come from a comprehensive approach personalized for each patient.
The concept of prevention is often undervalued and underconsidered in treatment planning. By combining treatments that accelerate cell turnover, spark collagen production and optimize your skin’s natural healing and rebuilding processes, we can balance short term results with a long term, cumulative and preventative impact. Our expert team starts by understanding your personal values, concerns, lifestyle and goals to develop a treatment plan uniquely designed for you. Inevitably, the results speak for themselves.
Prevention is often overlooked when it comes to aesthetic care
It’s natural to look for immediate solutions as we notice the signs of aging–but the big picture matters. For example, when we consider neuromodulators like Botox®, patients are often focused on the result of a single treatment, but the data tells us that the clinical magic is actually in repeated treatments over time that prevent deeper lines and creases from ever forming. We often meet patients who are looking to respond to the first signs of aging skin; they’re eager to look better, faster, now.
While immediate solutions are part of the big picture, we recommend solutions that optimize a beautiful, natural look for life.
Even as we choose treatments that show results right away, we are considering how a myriad of factors impact your aging trajectory over the decades to come.
How can I prevent future signs of aging?
Preventative cosmetic treatments address your current concerns while setting the stage for success in the future; promoting ongoing collagen production, restoring the supportive scaffolding underneath your skin, and correcting ongoing changes to the complexion. Collagen production slows down 1-2% per year beginning in our early twenties, so starting early sets you up for ideal maintenance, prevention and more natural outcomes. The best treatment plans are customized, comprehensive and balanced short and long term benefits.
Treatments that treat current and future signs of aging include:
- Neuromodulators like BOTOX® Cosmetic, Xeomin andDysport® help relax the muscles that contract to treat lines and prevent wrinkles from deepening over time.
- Laser Genesis can improve skin tone and texture, stimulate collagen production to firm and smooth skin without any downtime.
- Microneedling creates tiny punctures that stimulate collagen production, using the natural healing processes of your skin to restore a glowing, more even complexion.
- EMFACE® offers non-surgical facelifting and rejuvenation as it improves skin quality and restores a tighter, more lifted look to the eyebrow and lateral cheek areas.
- Tixel® comes in to maintain elasticity, address loose or sagging skin,, and improve lift and tone to targeted areas like the jowls, periorbital, and perioral zones of the face.
- Customized, evidence-based skincare to build a regimen that meets you in each chapter with preventative and proactive solutions, empowering you to enhance treatment outcomes at home.
- Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) treatment applies the transformative potential of light to treat signs of photoaging like uneven tone, pigmentation, redness, enlarged pores, and scarring.
- Hyaluronic Acid (HA) gels like Restylane, JUVÉDERM®, Belotero, and Skinvive, can smooth rough skin, restore facial contours, enhance radiance, improve hydration with meaningful moisture reserves and restore hollow or depressed areas.
What does cosmetic intervention look like at each stage of life?
The way we employ treatments evolves naturally over time. For example, we may use neuromodulators or HA gels sparingly in our 20s and 30s to prevent future folds, and more intentionally to treat lines that exist in our 50s. HA gels can add fullness to thin lips in young adulthood and can also be used to restore depressed areas of the face like under the eyes, where volume is depleted over time.
Embrace a bright future
It’s truly never too early or too late to begin; there are preventative and restorative treatments and evidence-based products that can help you age positively and confidently through every phase of life. Discover the possibilities. We look forward to meeting you.
