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Non-Surgical Procedures

Many improvements can be made without surgery! We understand that not everyone desires or needs a surgical procedure. Over the past 10 years the specialty of plastic surgery has seen a renaissance of new, innovative non-surgical options for improving facial wrinkles, restoring facial volume and improving the appearance of sun damaged skin. These highly effective procedures are most commonly performed in just a few minutes, in an office setting. The doctors also use these procedures in conjunction with surgery to make your results even better!

From the excellent skin care and permanent makeup provided by our medical skin care clinic to dermal fillers and Botox Cosmetic®, we provide a comprehensive group of non-surgical options. These procedures are often less expensive and have little or no downtime while still providing excellent improvements.

BOTOX® Cosmetic

Treatment with Botox Cosmetic® can smooth and soften frown lines, crow's feet, and laugh lines around the eyes and mouth. The treatment takes only minutes, has no downtime while providing a dramatic reduction in wrinkling and a freshened appearance!

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Dysport®

The newest option to fight facial wrinkles, this simple treatment will also smooth and soften facial wrinkles around the eyes and forehead for three to four months. This low-cost treatment provides dramatic results, and is comfortably performed in about ten minutes.

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Dermal Fillers

Treat wrinkles, skin depressions and scarring with a simple injection done right here in the office. Results are instantaneous and there's no downtime.

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Restylane®

Considered one of the most useful innovations in plastic surgery in the past ten years, Restylane® is a hyaluronic acid dermal filler is a workhorse when it comes to improving facial wrinkles, smile lines, lipstick lines, and other lines around the mouth. Performed in our office, the treatment is comfortable, long lasting and takes only a few minutes!

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Juvederm®

One day you looked in the mirror and studied those lines that furrowed your brow, and you wondered: Where did they come from?

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Perlane®

Often employed to fill the deepest of facial lines, Perlane® is a dermal hyaluronic acid (HA) filler is designed to dramatically reduce the lines from the nose to the mouth (nasolabial folds) and at corners of the mouth (marionette lines).

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Sculptra®

Are you looking drawn and tired or recognize hollowing in certain areas of your face? Sculptra® is a collagen stimulator that will add volume to hollow areas of the cheeks and temporal regions of the face for up to two years giving you back that youthful look.

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Prevelle Silk®

Prevelle Silk ® is used to fill in fine lines, especially around the lips. Because it causes very little swelling or bruising it can be used on the day of a social event for a last-minute correction to facial lines or lips.

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Intense Pulsed Light (IPL)

By selectively treating the collagen and fibroblasts (collagen producing cells) found within the dermis, IPL stimulates the production of new collagen and elastin. This leaves the skin looking healthy, refreshed and, in many cases, younger.

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Laser Hair Removal

IPL Hair removal works by emitting pulses of intense light into the hair follicles. The light is absorbed by the pigment in the follicles and converted to heat. The heat then loosens the hair and disables the cells responsible for growing new hair.

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FRAXEL®

Just as a damaged painting is delicately restored one small area at a time, or a photographic image is altered, pixel by pixel, Fraxel® Laser Treatment improves your appearance by affecting only a fraction of your skin at a time with thousands of tiny microscopic laser spots.

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Chemical Peels

The micro peel, is performed as part of a periodic skin care program using a glycolic acid solution in a three step process which removes the outer skin layer, exposing newer, healthier skin.

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Spider Veins

Today, many plastic surgeons are treating spider veins with sclerotherapy. In this rather simple procedure, veins are injected with a sclerosing solution, which causes them to collapse and fade from view.

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Cosmetic Products

Sarasota Plastic Surgery Center offers various options in Cosmetic Products that transform skin and restore that youthful look. From Obagi® to La Roche Posay Sarasota Plastic Surgery Center has you covered.

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Lip Enhancement

Lip lift, or augmentation, will increase the fullness of the lips which creates a more attractive contour and an appearance of youthfulness.

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Ultrapulse Fractional C02 Laser

There are many types of lasers, but the CO2 laser is the most effective for deeper lines and wrinkles. The laser removes the upper layers of skin. This skin regenerates with new, smoother skin. In addition, the laser stimulates collagen formation in the dermis tightening the skin and reducing the wrinkles.

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Are You a Good Candidate?

Virtually any patient with facial lines, wrinkles, sun damage or pigmentation problems may be a good candidate for non-surgical procedures.

 

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