Facial Aesthetics

Our range of facial aesthetics treatments is undertaken by our dentist Dr Rita Marinho.

The first step of treatment will be a facial aesthetics consultation, where Rita will discuss and address your needs and provide advice on your most suitable treatment options.

The range of treatments offered at the practice includes anti-wrinkle injections, dermal fillers and lip fillers.

As with all non-surgical treatments, the effects of treatment will gradually wear off with time. This means that you will need top-ups to maintain the effects of treatment.

Anti-wrinkle injections

Wrinkles are an inevitable part of ageing and can be accelerated by exposure to the sun, excessive stress, diet, and weight loss. These wrinkles can be classified as ‘static’ or ‘dynamic’. Static wrinkles are caused by the gradual loss of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid. Dynamic wrinkles are caused by repeated facial muscle movements. Our anti-wrinkle injections can help to improve both the static and dynamic lines.

An ultra-fine needle is used to precisely deliver small amounts of a purified protein. This protein prevents certain facial muscles from contracting, therefore stopping the skin from creasing. Common areas for treatment are in the upper part of the face, such as crow’s feet and forehead lines.

Treatment takes around 20 minutes and the effects will begin to show after a couple of days.

Dermal fillers

Fillers are used to enhance the appearance of the skin by smoothing lines and plumping up areas of lost elasticity. They can be used to contour lines around cheeks, nose and mouth and can also restore a more youthful look to lips that have become thinner and lost definition.

Hyaluronic acid is found naturally in the body – over time the body stops producing as much collagen and elastin due to low levels of hyaluronic acid. With dermal fillers a hyaluronic acid (HA) gel is injected to help hydration and plumping in the areas needed. In the administration of lip fillers, the treatment is performed with the application of numbing cream and local anaesthetic (which can be more sensitive with numbing cream only).

The HA gel is injected with a very thin needle into the areas requiring treatment. 80% of the effects will be noted immediately and 20% after 2 weeks later once the HA attracts hydration to the area.

Skin boosters

Skin boosters are ideal if you want a natural result and to just give your skin extra hydration and a healthy glow. They act as a deep skin moisturiser that will give you a “facial” feeling that will last a few weeks.

Skin boosters will help improve your skin texture and smooth small fine lines. We can use the skin booster to add hydration where it is needed as Face, Neck, Decolletage and Hands. Profhilo is one of the products we use, it is used to restore skin elasticity and firmness, increase elastin and collagen resulting in tighter skin, smooths out fine lines and wrinkles.

The effects can be noted after a few days and last a few months. This treatment will improve the quality of your skin. Icona H8 is a newer skin booster that has HA, amino acids and vitamin C, helping regulating pigmentation of skin.

Polynucleotides

Polynucleotides are highly-purified DNA molecules which stimulates cells to produce more collagen and treat skin damage. The polynucleotides will be injected into your skin with a very fine needle. As a result, you’ll have noticeably firmer, brighter, smoother skin.

Polynucleotides can be used to treat fine lines and wrinkles, dark circles, dull skin, poor tone and texture, hyperpigmentation, rosacea, and acne scarring. Polynucleotides are also very effective for hair conditions such as dry and itchy scalp as well as treating thinning hair. Different products are available so we can tailor treatment to your individual needs The results are noticeable after a few weeks but will last longer as we are stimulating the skin cells naturally and that stimulation will last.

Microneedling

Microneedling is a collagen induction therapy, it is a procedure that involves creating a small amount of trauma with very thin sterilised needles that go into the skin at different depths to encourage the body to naturally produce more collagen and elastin, which will improve the quality of your skin.

A serum is used during the procedure to introduce hyaluronic acid, vitamins and mineral a little deeper in the epidermis. This treatment can be used in most parts of the body, main areas used are face, head (help stimulate hair growth), stomach or tights. You will notice the effects after a few days and long lasting results in the quality of your skin.

Prices

Anti-wrinkle treatments – from £150
Lip fillers – from £125
Excess sweating treatment – from £350
Muscle tension migraine – from £500
Skin booster – from £140
Vitamin B12 booster – from £30
Microneedling – from £75
Polynucleotides – from £175

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