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Wrinkles
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Ageing, our enemy...
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INTRODUCTION |
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Whatever
their causes: sunshine, smoking or heredity, the fact
is that wrinkles mark a face. What can you do about
them ?
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When
the skin is disfigured by a limited number of
wrinkles, two treatments can be used:
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Reducing
of the muscular contractions, for the expression
wrinkles. |
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Filling
the wrinkle, for the constitutional wrinkles. |
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In
a progressed stadium, where the skin has lost a
lot of its elasticity, surgery will be the preferred
choice.
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When
the face is covered with thin wrinkles, a global
treatment of the skin is recommended.
This "smoothing" can be:
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Chemical:
peelings |
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Energetic:
laser |
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Mechanic:
dermabrasion |
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TREATMENT |
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Expression wrinkles can be treated with Botox, a medicine
which reduces muscular contractions.
Botox has been used since 1980 to treat spasms of the eyelids,
squint, and spasmodic stiff neck, but
is also used in many other disciplines.
It has become the ideal product to treat wrinkles of the upper
face ( between the eyebrows, on
the forehead and crow's-feet ).
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Constitutional wrinkles (deep or superficial)
can be treated by locally filling the wrinkle by progressively resorbable implants: fat, collagen, Sculptra, hyaluronic acid
(Perlane, Hylaform, Restylane, Juvederm, Macrolane, etc).
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TECHNIQUE |
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With
some of these products, allergy-tests must be carried out prior
to their use. On the whole, the side effects will be temporary
and hardly visible. How long the product's effect lasts, varies
a lot from one product to another.
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Although
each of these techniques may be ideal in specific cases,
most patients will benefit most from a combination of different
techniques.
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Even if lots of pictures showing results can been seen on lots of websites, the medical association in Belgium does not allow us anymore to show them, reason why you won't find any here.
On the other hand, you will, during the consultation, have access to all those pictures to show you the quality of our work.
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If
you wish to have specific information relating to your case,
please come and see us.
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