Facial aging can be frustrating to deal with, especially when at-home products don’t work as advertised in the commercials. There are different types of facial aging that require different techniques to correct. There are both surgical and non-surgical methods for reversing the visible signs of aging. The best method for you will depend on your […]
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Why Your Face Is Aging
Alexander Pope once said, “Time conquers all, and we must time obey.” This is certainly true of our skin, particularly on our face. While we’re gaining all of that life experience over time, our faces are showing the progression, too. Much of Dr. Ip’s practice is devoted to countering that march of time as it […]
Three Signs of Facial Aging That You May Want to Address
No one beats the march of time. Not Ponce de Leon. Not that Nazi sympathizer guy in Indiana Jones. Well, maybe the Doc in Back to the Future, but he cheated with a time machine. While unstoppable, the signs on your face that come with aging can be reversed or at least slowed with various […]
Love Live Sculptra!
Even if you Count Dracula and never needed anything with an SPF on it because you only went out at night, your skin would still age. This unfortunate circumstance is called intrinsic aging. The main driver of intrinsic aging is a drop in collagen production — every year after you turn 20 your body produces […]
Wrinkles and the Battle Against Extrinsic Aging
People know that as we get older our skin becomes drier, less supple, and more prone to the signs aging. What they don’t know is that there are two types of aging happening in the skin — intrinsic and extrinsic. Here’s little background on the skin and these effects of aging. What is normal skin […]