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Injectables that can last for two years, can you believe it?

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

Are you looking for sublte results over time?  Are you afraid that your friends might notice that you have had facial plastic surgery? Do you want to refreshen your appearance by undergoing a procedure that provides natural looking results with no downtime required?  If so, as a Charlotte facial plastic surgeon, I believe Sculptra, poly-L-lactic acid,  might be the treatment for you!  Sculptra visibly reduces your age over time.

Charlotte Sculptra 300x26 Injectables that can last for two years, can you believe it?

Sculptra is poly-l-lactic acid that stimulates your body to produce collagen

Sculptra requires 1-3 treatments over the course of a few months.  These injections of poly-L-lactic acid provide you with natural looking results by stimulating your body’s natural ability to produce collagen.  Collagen is the main structural protein found in our connective tissue, helping give tissues like our muscles and skin their ability to hold shape and maintain integrity. Collagen is also responsible for the firm, almost plump look of healthy, youthful skin. As age encroaches, collagen seems to jump ship, abandoning the face and leading to wrinkles and thinner skin.  Popular brands and many marketing tactics promote topical creams for being able to replace collagen or help firm skin; however, that is false.  Collagen production happens deep within the skin’s many layers. In order to boost collagen levels to see reults, you must get further than skin deep.   Sculptra helps correct youthful facial shape and deep facial wrinkles and folds that appear with aging by replacing lost collagen. The main ingredient Sulptra is a biocompatible, biodegradable synthetic material that has been used by physicians for decades.

I offer Sculptra in my Charlotte office and inject the product deep and directly into the fat pockets of the face that has lost volume.  Restoring volume in the exact location where it was lost results in natural results.  Sculptra helps the body restore lost collagen gradually, lifting and plumping the skin from the bottom to the surface.  Your face regains its fullness and loses its wrinkles over time, with the results lasting up to two years (which is longer than the various other fillers).

 

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What Are in the Facial Fillers that I Use at My Facial Cosmetic Surgery Practice in Charlotte?

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

As a Charlotte cosmetic surgeon, I use facial fillers to replace lost volume and reshape the face to a more youthful proportion.  Whenever I am performing a procedure, I want my patients to be well informed about the facial fillers that I use.  I commonly receive questions regarding the composition of fillers.  Generally, there are 2 types of fillers:

1)      Hyaluronic Acid Fillers

  1. Restylane
  2. Perlane
  3. Juvederm

2)      Collagen Stimulators

  1. Sculptra
  2. Radiesse

 

Hyaluronic acid sounds like a bad substance because it contains the word “acid.” Hyaluronic acid is a natural substance that the body produces daily.  It functions to support all of the cells in the body.   Typically, Restylane, Juvederm, or Perlane will last 6 -12 months.  It will resolve faster in areas that are constantly moving, such as the mouth, as opposed to still areas, such as the temples. Restylane, Perlane, and Juvederm differ in their thickness and swelling rates after the procedure.  Juvederm tends to swell the most while Perlane in the thickest.  Restylane is in the middle.

Charlotte Sculptra1 300x26 What Are in the Facial Fillers that I Use at My Facial Cosmetic Surgery Practice in Charlotte?

Sculptra’s fancy medical name is poly-l-lactic acid.  That is same material that is used in a line of commonly used sutures which have been popular for years.  Sculptra is very safe when placed in the face by a trained injector.  It stimulates the body to produce collagen which replenishes the lost volume of the face.  The results typically last 2-3 years.  Depending on the amount of volume lost, more than one session of Sculptra may be required.

 

Radiesse is composed of Source calcium hydroxyl apatite , a substance that is produced by our bones.  When injected into the face, it will fill the area and stimulate the body to produce collagen.  It typically lasts for one  year depending on its location.  I do not use it around the eyes or in the lips because it may leave lumps or bumps.

I hope this serves as a synopsis for the composition of the different facial fillers I use in my cosmetic surgery practice in Charlotte.  For more information about facial fillers click here.

 

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Dr. Kulbersh Explains How the Shape of the Face Changes with Age Using an Egg!

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

As we advance our knowledge about the changes in the bone, fat, muscle, and skin of the face, we will continue to produce more natural and superior results for facial rejuvenation.  I have tried to simplify an important aspect of facial aging, the change in the shape of the face, by using an egg as a prop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAp1TnCfcD0

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh2jBA7Yc_w

As a facial plastic surgeon in Charlotte, I use fillers, fat grafting, Sculptra,  liposuction, facelifts, and necklifts to reshape the face into the youthful upside down egg appearance.

Youthful Shape of a Face as an Upside Down Egg Dr. Kulbersh Explains How the Shape of the Face Changes with Age Using an Egg!

Transforming the shape below to the shape above is one goal of your facial rejuvenation by a Charlotte facial plastic surgeon.Older Shape of a Face of the Egg Dr. Kulbersh Explains How the Shape of the Face Changes with Age Using an Egg!

 

 

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Too Much Facial Volume Can Be Aging… Just Look at Heidi Montag

Friday, February 17th, 2012

About this time last year, Heidi Montag, a reality TV star from the popular MTV reality show, The Hills, underwent 10 aesthetic surgical procedures at the age of 24.  It is hard for me to comprehend why a young beautiful girl would undergo extensive surgery like this.

Check her out:

http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/69703/The-Hills-Heidi-Montag-Still-Looks-Puffy-And-Blotchy-After-Last-Years-Extensive-Plastic-Surgery-

I can tell you 2 things:

1)  I loved her show and I thought she was beautiful

2)  If she came to my office and inquired about these 10 procedures…I would not have performed them.

People ask, why would you turn down a patient?  Patients have to be physically and mentally healthy to undergo facial aesthetic surgery.  If I had a patient who asked to look like Barbie, as Heidi requested, I would have first considered her mental health as unstable and would have advised her against any sort of facial cosmetic surgery until she became mentally stable.

The loss of volume as we age is a part of the aging process.  Restoration of this volume with facial fillers (Restylane, Perlane, Juvederm), Sculptra, or autologous fat grafting can be a wonderful option for rejuvenating the face.  Heidi’s young face had not lost volume.  In her mid-twenties, she had the perfect balance of definition and volume. During her surgery, it appears that she may have had fat transferred from her body to her face. This addition of volume has over-inflated her face and blunted her naturally beautiful lines, arches, and facial contours.  She appears to almost have a “fat” person’s face on a very skinny and unnatural-appearing body (This would be an entire other story!)

What is the POINT!?

No point or philosophy in facial plastic surgery is simple.  A blanket statement stating that adding volume to the face creates a youthful appearance is not correct.  As a facial specialist, I have to identify if the patient has lost volume, the location of the lost volume, and the best method to re-fill.  As you can see, adding volume to the wrong areas of the face can cause an unattractive outcome.

As a fellowship trained facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Kulbersh offers facial fillers at his offices in Charlotte and Columbia.

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What is Sculptra Aesthetic and How is it Different From Injectable Fillers of the Face?

Monday, February 13th, 2012

The growth of injectable facial fillers has been explosive over the past ten years.  I love the products and their outcomes, as they require no downtime and minimal pain.  Facial injectable fillers are ideal for immediately correcting facial volume loss and filling wrinkles in the face.  These products are best for a patient seeking an immediate boost.  They are also completely reversible, and are made up of naturally occurring products, such as hyaluranic acid, which are already in your body.  At our Carolina Facial Plastic Surgery Center offices in Charlotte and Columbia, we use Restylane, Perlane, and Juvederm as our facial fillers of choice.  They are injected into the face to immediately fill or volumize areas of concern.

Sculptra Aesthetic is an injectable product used in the face to ultimately increase facial volume, but it is NOT a facial filler.  Sculptra Aesthetic, poly-l-lactic acid, is an injectable substance that stimulates your own body to produce new collagen.  This new collagen will SLOWLY add new volume to the face.  In young faces with good volume and elasticity, it may take only one treatment to give that added youthful “pop” to the face.  In faces requiring more volume, it can take up to four injection sessions to get the desired amount of new collagen. Each session is spaced out over approximately three weeks, and since the result is dependent on the body producing NEW collagen, it will take about three months for the new collagen to become noticeable.  The advantage of creating new collagen is that the effects of Sculptra last much longer, 2-4 years, as opposed to other filler products which last 3-12 months.

In previous blogs, I have discussed my 3D facial topography theory that I use to analyze facial structure.  I believe a face with the right amount of volume will reflect light and have smooth transitions from one area of the face to the next.  In patients with volume loss, the smoothness is lost and the wrinkles create multiple shadows on the face.  The shadows make the face appear tired and aged.  I inject Sculptra into the natural fat pockets of the face to add volume to the actual area of the face that has lost the volume.  This can subtly change the entire shape of the face and smooth the transitions to add a youthful and beautiful appearance to the face.

Dr. Jonathan Kulbersh is the founder of Carolina Facial Plastic Surgery.  He is a facial plastic surgery specialist, and has offices in Charlotte, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina.

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Celebrities Visit Facial Plastic Surgeon to Get Ready for the Red Carpet

Sunday, February 12th, 2012

My good friend, mentor, and cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Babak Azizzadeh, discusses the mini-face lift, Botox, Restylane, Sculptra, liquid brow lift and other facial plastic procedure celebrities undergo to get ready for the red carpet.  Check out the celebrity secrets in the link below:

http://www.timesunion.com/business/press-releases/article/Plastic-Surgeon-Reveals-The-Top-Celebrity-3245041.php

Dr. Jonathan Kulbersh, who trained and practiced with Dr. Babak Azizzadeh in Beverly Hills, is the founder and CEO of Carolina Facial Plastic Surgery Center with offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina.

 

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