Collagen
Collagen is a program of treatments that can soften and fill in facial lines and wrinkles. Collagen is an excellent option for those patients whose faces are not ready for plastic surgery. It can also be used as a finishing touch to surgery to help maintain the positive effects. Collagen is a natural protein that supports and cushions your skin. When age, disease, or injury wear down this natural collagen support, a line or wrinkle may form. Collagen is implanted through a fine needle into your skin, and joins your body's own collagen, improving your skin's natural contours by filling in the lines and wrinkles.
Fat Injections
Another method of filling facial irregularities, wrinkles, or folds is by fat injections. The patient's own fat is removed or suctioned from an area where there is excess fat, and then the fat is injected into a fold or depression of the face.
These treatments are an ongoing process as these treatments are not permanent. They are reabsorbed by the body, requiring injections every four to six months to maintain the positive effects.
Laser Surgery
Lasers are quickly becoming an indispensable tool for plastic surgeons. Lasers, which are essentially high-energy beams of light, can be used to make incisions, vaporize tumors, close blood vessels, selectively reduce pigmentation, or even treat skin wrinkles. The laser makes it possible to change tissue without making an incision. So, a surgeon can treat birthmarks or damaged blood vessels, remove port-wine stains, and shrink "spider veins" without major surgery.
After treatment utilizing a laser, the tissue is left sterile, and bleeding is greatly reduced. When the laser is used to treat port-wine stains, no cuts are made. The laser energy penetrates through the skin to shrink the abnormal blood vessels that are the cause of these marks.
These are a few of the treatments we offer using lasers:
Laser Skin Peels
Lasers can be used to reduce wrinkles around the lips or eyes, even the entire face, softening fine wrinkles and removing certain blemishes on the face.
Laser Removal of Birthmarks and Skin Lesions
Port-wine stain birthmarks respond remarkably well to laser treatment. The abnormal blood vessels that cause these marks are reduced in size by the laser. This results in a lightening of the treated area. Skin growths, "spider veins," warts, and some tattoos respond to laser surgery. Most situations take more than one laser treatment, but some respond to a single treatment.
Laser Hair Transplants
In this procedure, lasers are used to prepare the area where the hair transplants will be placed.
Harrison H. Lee, MD, DMD, FACS
9001 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Ph / 310.777.2627