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Use Of Intradermal Botulinium Toxin To Reduce Sebum Production And Facial Pore Size

Anil R. Shah, MD200 West Superior St., Suite 200Chicago, IL [email protected]: Review the safety profile and subjective efficacy of intradermal botulinium toxin in facial pore size and sebum productionDesign: Retrospective AnalysisResults: 20 consecutiv...

Acne Scars Indian / Pakistani

Una publicación compartida de Anil Shah MD (@shahaesthetics) el Dic 14, 2017 at 2:43 PSTDr. Shah treats patients of Indian/ Pakistani backgrounds for acne scars. He specializes in treating ethnic skin types so that the scars can be improved while minimizing a...

African American Facial Filler

There is a fundamental difference in the way different ethnicities age. African American represents a broad range of skin thicknesses, pigmentation, and bony structure. Most patients age with discrete changes within the deeper structures and are affected by volumetric changes wit...

Skin Rejuvenation

Options for both the cosmetic surgeon offering and patients seeking treatment for cutaneous aging have expanded greatly in recent years and continue to grow. Increasingly sophisticated aesthetic patients are seeking procedures to rejuvenate in record numbers but many are unwillin...

Combined CO2 and Erbium Yag

What is the Combined CO2 and Erbium Yag Laser? A combined, dual-wavelength CO2/Er:YAG laser system has the ability to deliver both clean ablation of skin with the erbium wavelength and a simultaneous deeper penetrating subablative thermal pulse of CO2 for full-face resurfacin...

CO2 Laser

CO2 LaserWhat is a CO2 laser?This laser is made up of a gas mixture and composed of 4 elements: Carbon Dioxide, Helium, Nitrogen, and Hydrogen. Because CO2 lasers operate in the infrared, special materials are necessary for their construction.This type of laser precis...

CO2 Fraxel Laser

What is the CO2 Fraxel Laser?The CO2 laser is the gold standard for laser skin resurfacing in order to treat the effects of facial skin aging. The latest laser technology, the fractional CO2 laser, offers many of the benefits of the full face CO2 laser, with a fraction of the dow...

Middle Eastern Facial Fillers

Middle Eastern patients are seeking facial rejuvenation in increased numbers. Historically, Middle Eastern individuals have had rhinoplasty and facial contouring as the most common procedures performed. Because of the levels of melanin within Middle Eastern skin, most Middl...

Jowls

What are Jowls?Jowls are a technical term describing fullness along the jawline. Nancy Etcoff, author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, described the universal sign of beauty is a taut jawline. However, with aging, the jawline can develop areas with dips and bu...

Frankfort Horizontal Plane

Essentially this is a line which helps define horizontal plane in the skull, aka define zero degrees so that other measures can be made more accurately.The scientific method of measuring the Frankfort Horizontal line is done with a lateral xray. It is the line which is created by...

African American Plastic Surgery

African American represents a broad range of skin types and facial features. A recent study found more genetic diversity within some villages in Africa then entire nations in other parts of the world.It is important to understand that many times African American skin repres...

Erbium Yag Laser

What is the Erbium Yag Laser?The high-powered erbium:YAG (Er:YAG) laser produces energy in a wavelength that gently penetrates the skin, is readily absorbed by water, and scatters the heat effects of the laser light. These properties enable Dr. Shah or one of his medical assistan...

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