Not only is your skin your body’s protective covering connecting you to the outside world, but it’s the first thing everyone notices when you meet them face to face. Since our skin plays such a vital role in how we view ourselves, we should take steps to protect and treat it. However, despite your best efforts, your skin might still show signs of aging – such as dark spots, fine lines and wrinkles, and increased laxity – as you grow older.
You might assume plastic surgery is the only way to recapture your youthful look, but there are alternatives for those who aren’t ready to take that step. Here at the New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery, we proud to offer many nonsurgical options at our practice in New Orleans, Louisiana.
What Makes You Look Older?
As you age, collagen production throughout your body slows down, and the firm, smooth suppleness of youthful skin starts to fade, leading to a sagging and wrinkled texture.
Sun damage is another significant factor contributing to an older look. Years of cumulative UV ray bombardment appears on your face as fine lines, wrinkles, pigmented areas, rough patches, and sunspots. To make things worse, those tiny oil glands keeping your skin soft and supple decline in number, making dry skin worse as you age.
What Makes You Appear Younger?
Regardless of your chronological age, there are many ways you can reverse the signs of aging and regain that more youthful, vibrant look. The best part is that you do not even need to go under the knife. Here are nine ways to look younger without surgery.
1. Dermal Fillers Add Volume and Fullness
Our skilled professionals, Dr. Velargo and Dr. Hendrick, have extensive experience working with dermal fillers, which means your results are always natural-looking. Here are dermal fillers we highly recommend.
- Radiesse® improves sagging facial soft tissue and deep nasolabial folds by replenishing lost volume.
- Belotero® binds collagen and elastin together to restore lost volume in the face.
- Restylane® and Juvéderm®, made from hyaluronic acid, diminish moderate to severe lines, wrinkles, and folds on the face and neck.
2. Injectables Soften Lines and Wrinkles
Nonsurgical facial injectables, including Botox® and Dysport®, smooth fine lines and wrinkles caused by repeated muscle activity such as squinting and frowning.
3. Radiofrequency Skin Tightening
As a technology that combines microneedling with radiofrequency, Morpheus8 produces significant skin tightening, wrinkle reduction, and scar remodeling.
4. Facial Contouring with FaceTite
The next best alternative to a mini-facelift, FaceTite can take years off your face and neck without downtime or discomfort.
5. Chemical Peels
Chemical peels, especially the TCA chemical peel, are a great way to shed those sun-damaged and wrinkled layers of skin. Dr. Velargo can customize your chemical peel treatment based on your skin type, condition, and goals.
6. Microneedling
As the name suggests, microneedling (also known as collagen induction therapy) uses fine needles to produce tiny puncture wounds. The process stimulates your body’s natural healing response, increasing elastin and collagen production and encouraging skin cell turnover, leading to more youthful-looking skin.
7. IPL Photofacial
The intense pulsed light photofacial light treatment is just one of several spa services we offer. It targets pigment problems, such as brown spots, sun damage, red spots, and rosacea. As the bright light passes through the epidermis, it draws out the pigment-producing cells and disperses the uneven pigment.
8. Microdermabrasion
Also offered as one of our spa services, microdermabrasion produces an instant facelift by spraying tiny crystals across your skin to buff away signs of aging and reduce the size of pores and the oiliness of the skin.
9. FaceMD Skin Care Products
Formulated from the purest blend of organic ingredients and effective on all skin types, the FaceMD product line helps treat fine wrinkles, age spots or uneven skin tone, sun damage, and dehydrated skin.
Schedule a Personal Consultation and Look Younger Without Surgery in New Orleans
You have so many nonsurgical choices for restoring your youthful looks. Take the next step and schedule a personal consultation with one of our skilled and experienced board-certified plastic surgeons at the New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery.
Call us at (504) 533-8848 or contact us today to schedule a consultation.
