You already know a good skin care routine is essential if you want to preserve younger-looking skin. But sometimes, you need to step up your game for even more dramatic anti-aging benefits. If your at-home regimen isn’t getting the job done the way it used to, you may be looking for ways to take things to the next level.
At Ritacca Cosmetic Surgery & Medspa, we offer a wide variety of in-office options to help meet any skin care goal. Here are a few highlights from our extensive menu.
Hydrafacial MD®
Go beyond the typical facial experience with Hydrafacial MD, a four-step process that leaves skin intensely cleansed, moisturized, and radiant. During your Hydrafacial, you will experience exfoliation and gentle extraction of surface impurities from your skin, while providing your skin with the essential hydration and nutrients it needs for a healthy glow. This unique treatment can address a variety of skin conditions, including acne, wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, and sun damage.
Injectable Treatments
There’s an excellent reason you have heard about injectables and fillers virtually everywhere for the past few years. These products have become many people’s secret weapon for minimizing wrinkles and fine lines and fighting back against volume loss, with zero need for sutures, scars, or recovery time.
In an hour or less, injectables can have you looking naturally refreshed, providing long-lasting results. These options include the following.
- Botox® and Dysport®: These neuromodulators derive from a purified version of botulinum toxin, giving them the unique ability to stop wrinkles in their tracks. By blocking the chemical signals that cause muscles to contract, they relax existing wrinkles and prevent new ones from becoming a problem. Botox and Dysport are ideal for lines like crow’s feet, forehead furrows, and the dreaded “eleven lines” between the eyebrows.
- Juvéderm®: Juvéderm is a family of products that comes in formulations of various thicknesses, which are ideal for different treatment depths. These are excellent for minimizing wrinkles, as well as volumizing areas like the lips and mid-face.
- Restylane®: Like Juvéderm, Restylane is a hyaluronic acid-based filler that is available in different formulas. Since hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring compound in the human body, the side effects are minimal, and you can enjoy the effects of dramatically improved moisture and a noticeably smoother skin texture for months to come.
Laser Resurfacing
Laser skin resurfacing can address a broad variety of complaints, including discoloration, sun damage, and freckles, while simultaneously encouraging the skin’s natural collagen production to create continued results after your treatment session. We recommend the South Beach Peel™, which combines the benefits of broadband laser light with a peel that targets the top layers of skin.
Only one laser resurfacing session with the South Beach Peel provides outstanding results for the face, neck, décolletage, and hands. However, a series of in-office treatments can provide even more remarkable results.
Microneedling
Microneedling is an innovative treatment that reduces wrinkles, stretch marks, and hyperpigmentation while improving the texture of the skin. The procedure relies on a unique device called the DermaPen®, which uses fine needles to create minuscule puncture wounds in the surface of the skin.
As part of its natural healing response, your body will generate new collagen and elastin. Your result will be firmer, healthier, smoother skin with fewer wrinkles and a more even tone. As a bonus, your topical products will penetrate your skin better after getting microneedling, making them more effective.
Ultherapy
If you’re looking for a way to reverse common effects of aging, but aren’t quite ready to commit to a surgical procedure such as a facelift, Ultherapy might be an ideal way to bring your skin care to new heights. It is a gentle, in-office technique that uses low levels of ultrasound energy to create new collagen in the face, neck, and décolletage.
One treatment takes between 45 and 90 minutes, and you will begin to see gradual results developing over the next several months as your skin tightens in response to the new collagen growth. Many of our patients report a marked improvement in the firmness of their skin, as well as a reduction in trouble spots such as jowls and nasolabial folds.
Reveal Your Best Skin Ever
If you are ready to learn more about minimally invasive procedures to boost your skin care routine, contact us anytime. We are proud to be a leading provider of aesthetic medicine in Vernon Hills, IL, offering a range of cutting-edge services in our well-appointed office.
