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3 Reasons to Get a Regular Facial

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OVERVIEW

Skincare is the best tool for looking and feeling better and regular facials by a medical aesthetician or a board-certified plastic surgeon are an essential part of that care.

So if you've been on the fence about why regular professional facials matter when it comes to taking care of your skin and diminishing signs of aging, here are three reasons why this popular cosmetic procedure is key to turning the clock back on getting older.

What is a Facial?

Facials are cosmetic treatments that are done to promote healthier skin and relaxation to the patient.

Regular facials can help keep your skin at its optimal and reduce the signs of aging that occur as a result of getting older or your contact with the outdoor environment.

Most facials can include one or more of the following steps:

  • Skin analysis to determine skin type
  • Thorough cleansing of the skin
  • Exfoliation
  • Extraction of blackheads, clogged pores, or pimples
  • Facial massage
  • Treatment mask
  • Application of serums and moisturizers

What are the Benefits of Facials?

Facials can help promote clear, youthful-looking skin in the people that get them. In addition to cleansing your skin, facials keep them hydrated and plump thanks to the massage, treatment masks, and serums being used.

The earlier you start getting facials, the better, with most board-certified doctors recommending beginning at the age of 25 to help get a better handle on the process of aging.

What are the Different Types of Facials?

The type of facial you get depends on several factors, including:

  • Your skin type
  • Your overall health
  • Your medical history
  • Your aesthetic goals

During a facial, the aesthetician will examine your skin and create a customized facial to suit your skin. This enables your aesthetician to choose products that compliment your skin.

Facials can include exfoliation, cleansing, moisturizing, and adding essential elements to improve your skin's health. Exfoliation removes the outer dead layer of the skin, allowing other products to penetrate more deeply and enhance new, healthy skin growth.

Three Reasons to Get a Facial

Reduce Signs of Aging

Aging is the natural process of life, but signs of aging, like hyperpigmentation and wrinkles, can be reduced, and facials help turn the clock back. During your facial, your aesthetician may also suggest other skin treatments to handle peculiar skin issues like acne, wrinkles, and dark spots.

The treatments could include:

  • Hydrafacials
    Hydrafacials provide the skin with more moisture—essential for the maintenance of body cells, as well as a younger-looking appearance. This multi-purpose facial makes use of a medical-grade serum to weaken dead skin cells, combining deep cleansing with exfoliation, extraction, antioxidants, and protection to achieve healthy skin.

  • Microdermabrasion
    Pollution, sun, and other harmful elements can result in skin issues like acne, lines, wrinkles, uneven pigmentation, and age spots. When faced with any of these issues, microdermabrasion is one of the effective facial treatments to treat them.

    In microdermabrasion treatment, a spray of microcrystal is used to remove dead skin, revealing the youthful skin underneath. This treatment is ideal for people with fine lines, uneven pigmentation, acne, or clogged pores.

  • Hyaluronic acid
    Naturally occurring in the body, hyaluronic acid is responsible for plumpness and keeping our skin hydrated. Unfortunately, as you age, its production reduces, increasing the skin's rate of wrinkling. However, facials that provide the skin with artificial hyaluronic acid can work as an adequate substitute.

Improve Confidence

Getting regular facials is a straightforward way to not just get your skin right but clear your mind as well. Facials can be a rejuvenating experience for your face, as well as your self-confidence.

Getting a facial can also help you know how your skin reacts to hormones and stress. A board-certified doctor specializing in facials will help develop a facial that's right for your skin and body.

Relive the Skin from Stress

Facials are a top-notch way to remove the weariness that stress induces on your physical body. A facial comprises different massage techniques that can do a lot for the skin. The gentle massaging and rubbing of the skin helps stimulate and relax the face muscles while dissolving stress and tension in the facial muscles, making the skin look more relaxed and plump.

Facials also regulate blood circulation and blood pressure causing your skin to look more radiant and healthy.

Facials are Safe When Performed by a Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon or Trained Medical Aesthetician

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Skin Cancer Removal Procedures

Skin Cancer patients can expect a surgical plan to remove their skin cancer based on the location , size, and type of tumor. Most treatments to remove cancerous lesions can be conducted under local anesthesia.

 

The Skin Cancer is removed with a Surgical tool called a curette with a hoop or scoop on the end for scraping. An electric current is then applied to the area through a needle-like electrode designed to kill the remaining cancer cells and reduce bleeding.

After care instructions: The ED&C site must be kept clean if it is to heal rapidly. It is a small open wound which may or may not leave a scar. To clean the site, follow these instructions

First Wash Your Hands With Soap and Water

1. Remove Initial dressing in 24 hours.

2. Wash the area with soap and water twice a day. Apply a thin film of Aquaphor or Vaseline and cover with a fresh bandage until healing has occurred. This may take up to 2/4 week, depending on size of the wound and location.

3. Do not use Neosporin or other over the counter topical antibiotics as allergies to these medications are quite common and they can slow down healing.

4. Keep wound moist with Vaseline and band-aid, as stated in number 2. A scab or leaving it open to the environment will slow down healing.

It is normal for the site to become puffy, reddened, or irritated. However, if the site is warm to the touch, oozing, or severely reddened or very sore, you need to contact the office at (843)215-1100.

 

The skin cancer growth is removed with surgical excision by cutting or shaving it out of the skin with a scalpel. Local anesthesia is used to numb the affected area. Depending on the type of tumor, our surgeons my remove a certain amount of surrounding tissue. 

After Care Instructions: First Wash Your Hands With Soap and Water

1. You may apply an ice pack following surgery. Apply the ice pack on for 20 minutes, and then remove for 20 minutes, and repeat the process as needed. 

2. Remember, applying direct pressure to the surgery site stops bleeding.

3. You may take Tylenol for Pain if needed.

4. Leave the wound dressing on for 24 hours

5. While showering, remove your current dressing and clean your wound, and the remove for gently with warm water and soap to remove any dried blood and prevent scab formation.

6. Apply Vaseline ointment at least one time daily, and cover the entire wound with a band-aide or gauze dressing.

7. On your scheduled day of suture removal, cleanse the wound, and leave the area DRY(do not apply any ointment) and return to our office at your scheduled time to have the sutures removed

8. If your wound is in the beard area on your face or other area where you normally shave, please avoid shaving near the wound.

9. If the surgical site starts to bleed excessively and doesn't stop with applied pressure for 15 minutes, the dressing become saturated with blood. If there is excessive swelling or the site become inflamed and warm to the touch. Call the office at 843-215-1100

 

The surgeon removes the visible skin cancer and come surrounding tissue via and incision. The removed tissue is frozen, dyed, and evaluated under a microscope by a pathologist to see if the cancer has been removed entirely. If cancerous cells are still present, the process of excision and evaluation is repeated until the cancer is no longer detected. The diagnosis of the removed tissue is made in real-time, so the patient can be confirmed cancer-free the same day. The process can take several hours to fulling remove the cancer.

After Care Instructions: First Wash Your Hands With Soap and Water

1. You may apply an ice pack following surgery. Apply the ice pack on for 20 minutes, and then remove for 20 minutes, and repeat the process as needed. 

2. Remember, applying direct pressure to the surgery site stops bleeding.

3. You may take Tylenol for Pain if needed.

4. Leave the wound dressing on for 24 hours

5. While showering, remove your current dressing and clean your wound, and the remove for gently with warm water and soap to remove any dried blood and prevent scab formation.

6. Apply Vaseline ointment at least one time daily, and cover the entire wound with a band-aide or gauze dressing.

7. On your scheduled day of suture removal, cleanse the wound, and leave the area DRY(do not apply any ointment) and return to our office at your scheduled time to have the sutures removed

8. If your wound is in the beard area on your face or other area where you normally shave, please avoid shaving near the wound.

9. If the surgical site starts to bleed excessively and doesn't stop with applied pressure for 15 minutes, the dressing become saturated with blood. If there is excessive swelling or the site become inflamed and warm to the touch. Call the office at 843-215-1100

 

Typically used to treat minor skin cancers and pre-cancerous lesions, cryosurgery involves the use of liquid nitrogen to freeze and destroy the cancer cells. The procedure, also known as cryotherapy is repeated until the affected area no longer shows signs of pre-cancer or cancer.

After Care Instructions: 

1. You do note need to cover the area treated, unless instructed to do so.

2. The discomfort is temporary but may last for 10-30 minutes after treatment.

3. the area may appear red for up to one hour after freezing but often returns to normal color within 10-15 minutes.

4. A blister may form within 24 hours of treatment. this may be clear fluid filled or blood filled, if it is uncomfortable, you may drain it by using a clean needle cleansed with alcohol. If this is done, cover with a Band-Aid and Vaseline ointment for approximately one week. This bandage should be changed daily. 

5. Sometimes a scab will will form over the area treated. This will come off on its own and does not need to be covered.

6. If you have any questions or concerns after reading the above information, please do not hesitate to call our office at 843-215-1100



Side Effects of Skin Cancer Removal 

With any kind of skin cancer removal, scarring is likely to occur. Incision sites may be sore, red, or drain small amounts of fluid. Healing will continue for weeks and even months after your surgery, incision lines will fade and continue to improve. Sun exposure on wounds and scar lines can result in irregular pigmentation or cause the sight to become red, raised, or dark, so patients should follow post-op preventative instructions carefully. 

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