Regenerative Medicine

Most people, of both genders, choose to age gracefully. However, in the era of anti-aging medicine, the tendency is to turn back the clock and undergo some form of rejuvenation to reduce facial wrinkles, lines and blemishes.

Aging of the skin, dermal components and cells, means that the skin texture and appearance deteriorate. Aging affects the hands and soft tissue of the face. This is characterized by sagging, jowls, thinning of the skin, puffiness, age spots (lentigines) and wrinkling (forehead, cheeks, neck and décolleté). Skin texture changes and dryness is a problem.
Sun exposure worsens the process by solar-aging and UV irradiation. This means that vertical and horizontal facial and body wrinkles deteriorate with time.

THE NEW ROLE IN BIOLOGICAL DERMAL REJUVENATION!

For decades, rejuvenation of the face by surgical face-lift has been popular. Today, more non-invasive treatments are available to improve the skin complexion of the aging face.

Botulinum and dermal fillers have also become popular. Currently, popular methods to rejuvenate, tighten and resurface the face include radiofrequency, non-ablative photothermolysis, IPL's and light-emitting diode (LED) phototherapy. Also popular is combination therapy consisting of IPL, laser and Cosmeceutical, including vitamin A derivatives. However whatever option is used, the aging process cannot be prevented and skin improvement by these treatments is gradual, subtle, modest and variable.

This new approach, is appealing to clients seeking a more natural method to facial rejuvenation, is regeneration with your own cells and more specifically, autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP). This is also referred to as autologous cellular regeneration (ACR) an aesthetic practice, which is a safe and tolerable procedure.

Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) has been utilized in aesthetic medicine (UK, Japan, and Asia, Europe) to rejuvenate and slow down the aging process and face (2006). This refers to mesenchymal and epithelial rejuvenation by application of the persons own enriched autologous plasma. Recently, ACR-PRP has been pioneered for facial rejuvenation in select patients with chronological aging, and solar damage. Regeneration or anti-aging by biological stimulation of resident stem cells by growth factors.