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Woman Want to Get Rid of Dark Circles; FaceForum Examines the Solutions

(PRWEB) May 31, 2012

Woman want to know how to get rid of dark circles. in fact just under 7,000 woman surveyed by Clinique sited dark circles as their number one beauty concern, according to the NYTimes. FaceForum launched a complete guide to banishing dark circles, offering objective information about all the treatment options. FaceForum’s guide to dark circles examines the latest solutions for people with bags under their eyes. Including:

  • Skin Lightening Creams
  • Topically Injected Solutions (Restylane or Juvaderm)
  • Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) Treatments
  • Laser Treatments
  • Blepharoplasty

With so many options available for treatment, it can be confusing for the consumer to know which solution or treatment is best for his or her condition. It is the goal of FaceForum to help lay out the choices clearly offering the latest information on the technological advances and treatment options used by cosmetic surgeons.

Getting rid of dark under eye circles may be a challenge for young and old but between cosmetic products and treatments there are solutions to the problem. FaceForum encourages those with dark under eye circles to be informed of their options so that they have realistic expectations and make confident decisions when seeking treatment.

FaceForum is an informational guide to facial plastic surgery. Offering free information about rhinoplasty, face lifts, Botox and more. All of our articles are written by experts in plastic surgery, beauty and health. Visit FaceForum.com for more information.

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Woman Want to Get Rid of Dark Circles; FaceForum Examines the Solutions

Business profile: East End Plastic Surgery & Laser Center

Owner(s): Judy Emanuele, MD, FACS

Year established: 1997

Location: 1267 East Main St., Riverhead

Number of employees: 6

East end Plastic Surgery & Laser Center specializes in plastic, reconstructive and hand surgery, and offers many additional aesthetic services. Board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Judy Emanuele provides a comprehensive range of services to clients of all ages, along with staff members Tara Pedone, a licensed esthetician and certified laser technician, and Charlene Bloss, a licensed esthetician. While the clientele is mostly female, many men also seek to rejuvenate their appearance or resolve medical issues.

Surgical services include abdominoplasty (tummy tuck); blepharoplasty, which improves the appearance of upper and/or lower eyelids and gives a rejuvenated appearance to the surrounding eye area; breast augmentation and reduction; liposuction; reconstruction following extreme weight loss and more.

Laser services include microlaser peel, an innovation in skin resurfacing; photorejuvenation, which uses intense pulsed light to treat some skin conditions and soften wrinkles; SkinTyte™, a new noninvasive laser skin tightening procedure; laser treatment of veins and redness; and laser hair removal.

Facial services include HydraFacial treatments, which combine cleansing, exfoliation, extraction, hydration and antioxidant protection, resulting in clearer skin with no discomfort or downtime; microdermabrasion, a skin-freshening technique that helps repair aging and sun-damaged areas; Botox; and dermal fillers such as Juvederm, Radiesse, ArteFill and Sculptra.

According to office manager Alison Manuel, the injectable fillers are very popular with women from their 40s to their 60s. Cost varies with the area covered and amount of product required.

A full range of waxing services is available as well.

“Our goal is to help the individual achieve her or his goal,” said Ms. Manuel. often, a person will come in with a particular procedure in mind, and will benefit instead from an entirely different esthetic approach to produce the desired result. “We want everyone to feel comfortable and confident with their decision to have a particular cosmetic treatment,” she said.

Makeup services and application lessons are offered as well, and cosmetic clients receive free consultations. East end Plastic Surgery & Laser Center sells Jane Iredale mineral makeup and a variety of skin care products. Frequent specials are available through their newsletter or at facebook.com/eastendplasticsurgery.

The office is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closing for lunch from noon to 1 p.m. The website is eastend-plasticsurgery.com and email is eeprhs@optimum.net.

Business profile: East End Plastic Surgery & Laser Center

IPL and VelaShape Eliminate the Need for Plastic Surgery and Liposuction

Science used to be quite cruel. Those who sought beauty had to pay the price through invasive plastic surgery or liposuction. Fortunately, Intense Pulsed Light treatments (IPL) and VelaShape now eliminate the need for these dangerous procedures.

In the past, men and women alike who wished to regain their youthful faces, with firm and unblemished skin, had to go under the knife in plastic surgery. Facelifts were the answer. there have been many botched facelifts, though. Sometimes, the results were unsatisfactory, not living up to promises. at other times, the patients’ faces became quite grotesque. even worse, the use of general anesthesia in plastic surgery sometimes led to serious cardiac and pulmonary complications and even death. Another risk was deep vein thrombosis or the formation of blood clots in the vein which could also cause death.

Other possible outcomes of plastic surgery of the face were pain, nerve damage resulting in loss of control over facial muscles, facial asymmetry, numbness or loss of skin sensation, excessive bleeding, hematoma or the pooling of blood under the skin, infection, poor wound healing leading to skin necrosis and open sores, fat necrosis forming lumps under the skin, fluid accumulation and swelling, irregular skin contour, scarring, skin discoloration and hair loss.

Another scary procedure from the recent past is liposuction. the earliest type of liposuction, called the dry technique, was the most dangerous. It required general anesthesia, used a six millimeter cannula or stainless steel tube to siphon out fat and resulted in excessive blood loss and, at times, death. the subsequent tumescent technique, which was supposed to be an improvement, uses local anesthesia and a three millimeter cannula with holes punched in the skin for post-operative drainage. It is still quite invasive.

Intense Pulsed Light Treatments (IPL)

Intense Pulsed Light Treatments (IPL) is a laser treatment that achieves skin rejuvenation safely without plastic surgery. It uses flash lamps with full spectrum light that induces the skin to produce collagen, resulting in smoothened wrinkles and facial lines. at the same time, it diminishes pore size and eradicates skin discolorations like brown spots, freckles and blemishes.

Intense Pulsed Light Treatments (IPL) may be used not only on the face but on any body part, as well, such as the neck, décolletage, back, arms and hands. These body parts can be made smooth, wrinkle-free and blemish-free, as well.

But that’s not all that IPL does. It can also zap and erase vascular lesions or spider veins on any part of the body, from the face to the legs. This is another area where plastic surgery used to be the solution, often resulting in even worse scarring. IPL makes treatment so easy and safe.

There’s even more. the exact same Intense Pulsed Light Treatments (IPL) is also the favorite laser hair removal treatment in Tampa. This laser treatment also happens to be a permanent hair removal treatment, with the full spectrum light safely killing off unwanted hair on any part of the body such as the face, ears, underarms, back, legs and even the bikini area.

VelaShape also uses light combined with heat, massage and suction in a non-invasive machine that painlessly and safely breaks down fat deposits and firms the skin, resulting in a slimmer shapelier silhouette with dramatically reduced cellulite. the fat that has been broken down is naturally ejected by the body without any need for liposuction. After all, liposuction, much like other touted cellulite treatments, has been proven to be ineffective against cellulite.

Indeed, Intense Pulsed Light Treatments (IPL) and VelaShape are technological wonders we should be thankful for.

IPL and VelaShape Eliminate the Need for Plastic Surgery and Liposuction

Laser Hair Removal

Epilation by laser was performed experimentally for about 20 years before it became commercially available in the mid 1970s. Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) epilators, though technically not a laser, use xenon flash lamps that emit full spectrum light. Laser and light-based methods, sometimes called phototricholysis or photoepilation, are now most commonly referred to collectively as “laser hair removal”. one of the first published articles describing laser hair removal was authored by the group at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1998.

The efficacy of laser hair removal is now generally accepted in the dermatology community, and laser hair removal is widely practiced. Many reviews of laser hair removal methods, safety, and efficacy have been published in the dermatology literature

Laser hair removal is accomplished in a series of sessions generally done monthly or every other month. The average number of sessions to achieve over 80 percent permanent hair reduction in 80-90 percent of good candidates is approximately 4 to 7 sessions.

In between these monthly sessions some of the hair will regrow as hairs cycle. Hairs that may have been dormant during your previous laser hair removal session may now be in the growth phase. this is where the need for multiple treatment sessions arises. Multiple sessions ensures that all the hairs are subjected to the treatment. these hairs may be shaved by the patient between sessions if desired.some normal side effects may occur after laser hair removal treatments, including itching, redness and swelling around the treatment area. these side effects should not last more than three days. some level of pain should also be expected during treatments. Numbing creams are available at most clinics, usually for an additional cost. Icing the area after the treatment helps relieve the side effects faster.

Unwanted side effects such as hypo- or hyper-pigmentation or, in extreme cases, burning of the skin call for an adjustment in laser settings. Risks include the chance of burning the skin  or discoloration of the skin, hypopigmentation (white spots), flare of acne, swelling around the follicle, scab forming, purpura, and infection. these risks can be avoided when being treated at with an appropriate laser type and at appropriate settings for the individual’s skin type.

Some patients may show side effects from an allergy to either the hair removal gel used with certain laser types or to a numbing cream. a physician should be consulted if an allergic reaction presents itself after the treatment.

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Laser Hair Removal