Medical Facials Blog
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Face it!
People read your face all the time - at a high-powered business meeting, a romantic date, a casual encounter at the supermarket, and even in a conversation with a two-year old. No matter what your age, your face has its tell. It speaks of your well being and inner balance, and it speaks for you. So take full advantage of your facial identity by using the powerful combination of prevention and therapies to reflect on your personal health.
Every day of our life, we face persistent exposure to internal and external insults to our skin. We venture head-on into the seasonal elements of sun, wind, rain and snow. We face life’s unique phases of powerful hormones during adolescence, pregnancy and maturity. Even the emotional ups and downs of joy and stress leave traces on our faces. After all, we mirror our habits of living – like diet, sleep, exercise, travel, nicotine, alcohol, and medications. So it’s no wonder that even supermodels use supervised regimens of medical facials to maintain their best assets in every phase of life. After all, you don’t have to gamble with your appearance when you have open access to professional expertise through personalized medical facials.
Pursue a healthy life style to maintain your inner balance and slow down internal aging and shield your skin to lessen the impact of the elements. Facial treatments help on both fronts. They are safest when medically supervised, and most effective when charted in the context of health history, lifestyle, topical therapies and medications. There is no reason to risk adverse reactions of skincare products or treatments. As we enter an era of heightened chemistry in everyday products, we must be vigilant with product compatibility to our medical history and avoid potential reactions to drug-drug interactions. Your medical facial should be as personal as your identity. Assess your skin in context of your medical history, address avenues to improve and resolve your flaws, and equip yourself with the knowledge and benefit of a tailored skin regimen for homecare. The trick is to use medical expertise in aesthetic technology to enable your unique persona to radiate throughout life’s meander.
Indulge in a medical facial to repair, refine and rejuvenate. Your medical facial will be tailored to your personal needs and goals as determined by your skin analysis. Our products are professionally selected for medical and prescription grade quality and effectiveness. Modern biochemical techniques, like enzymes, catalysts and equalizers, are used to exfoliate the skin in a gentle but targeted fashion. Precise extraction techniques are employed to alleviate clogged pores and to treat acne-prone skin. A blend of specialized masks, gels and formulated creams is customized to rejuvenate, protect and nourish your skin. Particular focus is devoted to anti-aging and anti-oxidants.
The power of our medical facial is in knowledgeable combination of treatments that are tailored to skin diagnosis, medical history and lifestyle. Consistent with comprehensive clinical care, our medical facial includes consultation on home care regimens. Custom facials at regular intervals promote a consistently radiant, healthy skin.
In pivotal chapters of life, facial breakouts threaten to erupt, mirroring inner imbalances. Whether you are a business traveler or a young adolescent, each facial breakout has a personal history of health and lifestyle. The most common causes are diverse and include genetic predisposition to acneiform eruptions, hormones, medications, stress, diet, age or change in environment. Luckily, skin eruptions can be professionally treated. They can also be managed before they occur and more importantly they need not be lasting nor leave unsightly marks, bumps or scars.
Acne vulgaris, the most common skin eruption, affects nearly 17 million people in United States. Acne can develop at any age, but is most common at puberty and worsens during adolescence. Interestingly, about 85% of people develop acne between the ages of 12-25 years and roughly 20% of adult women develop mild acne. The scientific basis of acne formation centers on sebaceous glands located just beneath the skin's surface. These glands reside within the hair follicles and produce the skin’s natural moisturizer (sebum). Sebaceous follicles open onto the skin through pores. At puberty, increased levels of androgens (male hormones) can stimulate the glands to produce too much sebum. Excess sebum combines with dead, sticky skin cells, to block the pores as hard plugs, termed comedones. When certain bacteria (proprionibacterium acnes and others) colonize the skin, they will find a breeding ground in these comedones and subsequently form a “pimple”.
The most common mistake in facial care is imprecise, incomplete and unprofessional excision of comedones. Medical extraction of comedones is a precise procedure by a trained professional aesthetician. It involves use of a surgical grade extractor to ensure maximum benefit with minimum scarring or injury to surrounding tissue. Care is taken to customize preparation of the skin pre-extraction and appropriately treat the skin post-extraction.
Throughout life, we face a multitude of problematic and sporadic eruptions; including milia, follicular irritation and ingrown hairs. Many of these can be precisely managed with routine medical facials.
At times, hormonal or emotional imbalances and the marks they leave behind are reflected on the back, neck and shoulders. We offer medical bacials and tailor treatments as needed, with the ultimate goal to safely balance health and lifestyle.
Medical facials use a professional, precise and personalized approach to healthy and remarkable skin. Communication is key to your identity: don’t break the line between your health and skin.
| Patient comments (source: Patient Satisfaction Report) | |
| 2010-04-15 16:42:57 | The staff was amazingly friendly and welcoming. Even though they were busy, they did not get annoyed as seen in other physicians' offices. |
| 2010-04-14 11:19:33 | I have been to many dermatologists and the service here was exceptional. |
| 2010-04-08 16:25:27 | The Dr treated me as a Person, not a commodity. She talked to me so I could understand what needed to be done and what possible courses of actions needed to be taken. I enjoyed the fact that the Dr. took time to listen to me & took action considering my desires as well. |
Please feel free to use the blog below to share information about the subject, or to ask Dr. Ringpfeil a question that might be of interest to others.
I’m a 44-year-old woman and am starting to notice the general effects of age on my skin–brown spots, fine lines, blotchiness. I could also use some guidance on skin care at this point. Would a medical facial be something you’d recommend with these concerns in mind? Is this something done by Dr. Ringpfeil or by the estetician? Thank you!
There are several approaches to combat the effects of ageing. Treatments must be tailored to one’s skin type and to the desired outcome. Regular medical facials are a good way to start out as increased hydration has been shown to reduce fine lines and an uneven skin tone. Brown spots are removed with a specific laser. These services are available through our aesthetician. She also provides a complimentary comprehensive skin analysis and consultation on optimal daily skin care regimen.
I have heard a lot about your services and wanted to know if there’s a consultation fee to have the Dr. advise me on which procedure would be best to get rid of melasma or dark spots? Thank you!
Both myself and our asthetician Jill Suder Basile provide consultations and treatments for cosmetic concerns such as optimal skin care, skin rejuvenation including brown/sun spots and facial or neck redness, wrinkles, skin laxity, melasma, hair reduction, scars, torn ear lobes and many others.
We are proud to offer an extensive complimentary consultation and VISIA skin analysis with our aesthetician. If you prefer a consultation with me regarding purely cosmetic concerns, we assess a $115 fee.
I am normally a patient of yours with mild acne who has seen remarkeable results with the regime you prescribed me. Unfortuanetly, I had to stop using my medication because I am currently pregnant. I was just curious if there is any type of facial treatment your practice can do that is safe during pregnancy and will help to make my face feel refreshed.
Thanks so much!
Skin can look radiant and acne can be well controlled in most pregnant women. Common and safe treatments for mild to moderate acne in pregnancy include glycolic acid either as a daily protocol of cleansers and lotions or potent monthly in-office peels. In addition, microdermabrasion is a great choice for radiant skin or when blackheads and whiteheads are the most prominent feature. Moderate to severe acne may require monthly facials for extraction, Smoothbeam or pulsed dye laser treatment as well as a combination of topical glycolic acid and prescriptions medications. These are limited to a small selection of topical and oral antibiotics and azeleic acid.
The most common prescription and over the counter acne treatments such as topical tretinoin, adapalene, benzoyl peroxide, sulfur, sodium sulfacetamide and salicylic acid are labeled pregnancy category C, which means their effects on pregnancy and during breastfeeding have not been studied. They should be discontinued once you find out that you are pregnant and should only be used again when nursing has finished. The topical retinoid Tazarotene (Avage, Tazorac) has pregnancy category X status and must be discontinued before conceiving. Members of the tetracycline antibiotic family, oral contraceptives, spironolactone and isotretinoin (Accutane) are contraindicated in pregnancy and nursing.
I have milia under my eye and tried the Naturalis treatment for these, but I still have a ton under my eye.
What would the cost be for consultation/removal?
Milia can be removed during a facial with a trained aesthetician at our office. It is difficult to say how many milia can be safely removed at once, as scarring should be avoided at all costs. The consultation with our aesthetician is free of charge and a half hour facial is $65.