Arm lift is a common cosmetic surgery procedure that is used to enhance the shape of your arms by giving it a toned appearance. Arm lift surgery is commonly called as brachioplasty. During an arm lift surgery or brachioplasty, excess hanging skin from your underarms is removed. Reshaping of the under portion of your upper arm is done during brachioplasty. Brachioplasty is generally done to improve the droopy and sagging upper arms. Arm lift surgery helps in weight loss and the natural aging process.
Are you a Candidate for Brachioplasty?
Brachioplasty or arm lift surgery is considered only in the following conditions:
- When the underside of your upper arms are loose and giving it a sagging appearance.
- When exercise or any other physical activity does not help in reducing your upper arms
- When there is excess skin and laxity in the upper arm region
How to Prepare for Arm lift or Brachioplasty?
Before going for an arm lift or brachioplasty, your cosmetic surgeon might consider the following points:
- Evaluating your general health and determining the risk factors
- Examining and measuring your body for the surgery
- Your cosmetic
Hair loss is a common problem seen in all age groups. Hair loss can be the result of heredity and hormonal changes in your body. Baldness generally refers to the excessive hair loss from your scalp and it increases with age. Hereditary hair loss with age is the common cause of baldness.
Hair Loss Causes
Most of the people normally shed 50-100 hairs each day. This condition does not lead to noticeable thinning of the scalp hair because the new hairs will be growing at the same time. Hair loss mainly occurs when the hair growth cycle is disrupted and hair follicles are completely destroyed and replaced with scar tissues. The common factors that can lead to hair loss include:
- Family History (Heredity)
When you experience hair loss due to hereditary condition, it is referred as male-pattern baldness or female-pattern baldness. This kind of hair loss occurs in a predictable pattern. The rate of hair loss and extent of baldness is generally due to family history and the genes you have inherited from your parents. Pattern baldness is common in men when compared to women. Pattern baldness starts at an early age before puberty and can cause thinning of your hair and miniaturization.
- Hormonal Changes
Hormonal imbalance mainly affects women and can lead to temporary hair loss. Hormonal imbalance
Facelift commonly called as rhytidectomy surgery is a surgical procedure that helps in improving the visible signs of ageing on your face and neck. Aging brings numerous changes on face. The common signs of ageing that needs a facelift treatment include:
- Sagging appearance of the face
- Deep creases that appear below your eyelids
- Creases along the nose extending to the corner of the mouth
- Loss of skin tone on the lower side of face
- Loose skin and excess fatty deposits under your chin and jaw
There are different factors that are responsible for aging and loss of youthful contours. Most common is loss of volume of various tissue with advancing age. The common factors include: gravity, heredity, stress and environmental conditions. Other
Facelift Procedure
Before the facelift procedure, your cosmetic surgeon needs to carefully examine your face to determine which part needs to be treated to enhance your facial appearance. The common areas that are focused during the facelift treatment include: cosmetic surgeon needs
- Jaw line
- Jowls
- Cheeks
- Mid face
- Forehead
- Deeper facial tissues
- Additio
Skin is the largest organ in your body that gets exposed to sun and all harmful organisms in the environment. On your skin you will find different types of birthmarks and pigments. Birthmarks are the marks, spots or bumps that are present at the time of birth on your skin. Birthmarks are categorized according to their composition. Birthmarks generally appear on your skin due to excessive accumulation of melanin. These birthmarks are referred as pigmented birthmarks as majority of them appear brown or black in color. Other birthmarks that lack melanin appear lighter in color. Birthmarks are usually non cancerous and do not lead to any major health issue.
Cause of Birthmarks
There are no specific factors that are responsible for birthmarks appearance on your skin. Most of the birthmarks appear due to defective migration of cells during the development of the fetus. Certain tissues are produced, once the cells start multiplying irrespective of the location where they need to be located or they multiply in abnormal and irregular manner. This kind of cell growth generally leads to birthmarks and pigmented spots.
Types of Birthmarks
Birthmarks are classified into different types based on their appearance and composition. The most common types of birthmarks include:
Pigmented Birthmarks
Photofacial is a common cosmetic treatment used for skin rejuvenation. Photofacial is used to treat various skin related problems including skin redness and discolorations. Photofacial treatment works well for brown spots and vascular skin conditions. Photofacial makes use of intense pulsed light (IPL) that is mostly absorbed by chromophores containing melanin and hemoglobin. Photofacial treatment stimulated collagen production and can kill bacteria causing acne. In few cases IPL device are also used for hair removal.
Intense Pulsed light (IPL)
Photofacial is a skin rejuvenation treatment by using intense pulse light. The most common conditions that can be treated with IPL technique includes:
- Brown spots
- Freckles
- Melasma
- Broken capillaries
- Facial redness
- Sun damage
- Age spots
Photofacial treatment required the use of a LED device. LED devices are most commonly used in spas for treatment. These LED devices have lower energy are does not produce an intense light that can cause harm to your skin.
Photofacial Treatment
Photofacial treatment involve the usage of a computer controlled tube to emit a non laser, high intensity and multi-wavelength light beam that has the capability to penetrate in all the layers of your skin. The beams emitted by this device get absorbed by the excess pigments th
Liposuction is a commonly used cosmetic procedure use to remove fat from your body. During liposuction treatment small, thin and blunt- tipped tubes called cannula are inserted through the small incisions in your skin. Cannula helps in sucking fats from specific parts of your body. Liposuction is a less painful method used to treat obesity.
Types of Liposuction Techniques
There are three new techniques used for liposuction treatment.
1.Tumescent liposuction treatment
Tumescent liposuction is a common treatment used to remove fat from your body. During this procedure a local anaesthesia is used to numb the incision site. A large amount of anaesthetic solution is injected into your fatty tissues before starting the traditional liposuction treatment. General anaesthesia is not required during the tumescent liposuction treatment.
2.Ultrasound assisted liposuction
During this process ultrasound is used to liquefy the fat that makes it easier to remove from your body. Ultrasound assisted liposuction is mainly used to remove fats from your neck, upper abdomen and sides.
3.Laser assisted liposuction
Laser assisted liposuction treatment makes use of low energy waves to liquefy the fats present in your body. Laser assisted liposuction also requires c
Every man has some soft light coloured hair on his face and in beard and moustache area. These soft and light coloured hairs are called vellus hair. When you reach puberty the hormonal level increases in your body. The hormones that are increased in your body include:
- Testosterone
- Adrenal hormone
- 17-OH progesterone
- DHEAS
- Growth hormone
- LH
- FSH
- DHT
There will be a decrease in the SHBG hormone in your body. Increase in hormonal levels acts on various sensors called receptors in the hair roots of your face and other parts of your body. There will be an interaction between the hormones and the receptors. After the interaction, certain changes occur in the hair root cell functioning results in increased thickness of your hair. The hair becomes thick, long and more black pigments are produced that makes your hair darker. These hormonal changes also increase the blood supply in your hair roots leading to more availability of growth factors. Thus, your hair grows faster, darker and stronger. Hormonal growth factors are present in high concentration in your body during the development of secondary genital characters. There will be persistent stimulation of hair growth for the next 2-3 years till the genital development is complete.
Causes of Less Beard and Moustache
Facial scars appear sunken, raised or darkly pigmented. Facial scars may be generally itchy or painful. Facial scars results due to acne, injury or surgery. There are many different methods that help in healing, diminishing and covering your scars. As the facial skin is constantly exposed to the environment, scars on your face take a longer time to heal.
Treatments for Facial Scars
There are different treatments that are used to treat facial scars. The most common treatments used are:
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Dermabrasion
Dermabrasion is the most essential and popular method that is used for treating facial scars. Dermabrasion helps in enhancing your facial appearance. It is an exfoliating technique that is used to remove the outer layers of your skin. During this procedure a dermabrader is generally used. In most of the cases there is a 50% reduction in the scars after the dermabrasion treatment.
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Chemical Peel
Chemical peel is also used to treat facial scars with the help of certain chemicals. Certain mild acids are applied on your skin in a single layer. Application of acids on the upper layer of the skin results in exfoliation and exposing a new layer of the skin. Chemical peel is classifie
