DermaTology Services
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Acne Treatment
Acne is a common, chronic skin disorder affecting most teens to some extent, and adults as well. It is caused by several factors, including clogging of hair follicles, excess oil production, bacteria and hormones. Comedones, papules, pustules, nodules and cysts can occur on the face, neck, chest, shoulders and back.
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Botox®
Botox® is injected into specific areas and creates temporary loss of muscle tone, resulting in a reduction of the lines of the upper face and forehead, and the deep furrows between the eyebrows to produce a pleasing effect. After treatment, the overlying skin remains smooth and unwrinkled.
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Chemical Peels
Wrinkles, scars, uneven pigmentation and sun damage are all conditions that affect the appearance of our skin. Oiliness, large pores and dull complexions are other common problems. These chronic conditions can be improved with Chemical Peels.
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Clinical Trials
A clinical trial is conducted by medical physicians to evaluate and determine the effectiveness and safety of a treatment, medication or medical procedure. This is accomplished by following strict trial guidelines and processes to select groups of individuals as outlined by the sponsoring group.
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Collagen
Skin is your largest and most visible organ. It is composed of two layers. The first layer is called the epidermis. It acts as a protective barrier by preventing water loss from cells and tissues. Below the epidermis is the dermis. The dermis is made up mostly of collagen.
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Contact Dermatitis
Caused by superficial contact with foreign substances, contact dermatitis is an inflammation of the skin that is a reaction to an irritant or allergen. Some of the causes of contact dermatitis include soaps, detergents, household chemicals, plants, metals or fragrances and usually results in a skin rash or burn.
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CoolTouch®
The CoolTouch skin treatment is a revolutionary way to combat the signs of aging and acne scarring. This noninvasive procedure stimulates smoother, healthier looking skin. By using an infrared laser together with a cooling process, your skin rejuvenates from the inside out.
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Dermabrasion
Dermabrasion is a procedure that removes the top layers of skin to improve facial skin scarred by accidents or previous surgeries, deep acne scars, and fine facial wrinkles. Usually performed in a physician’s office with local anesthetic, a tool with a wire brush or a diamond wheel that rotates rapidly is used to smooth out and level surface irregularities.
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Dysport®
Dysport® is an FDA approved purified Botulinum Toxin used cosmetically to minimize frown lines in the glabellar area. Dysport® works by causing temporary weakness or paralysis of the muscles in this area.
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Endovenus Laser
Endovenus Laser Therapy is a procedure developed to treat varicose veins. Simple, fast and effective, this minimally invasive procedure alleviates the discomfort and disfiguring effect of varicose veins.
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Erbium Laser
The Erbium Laser has been used for treatment of various skin conditions, including aging and sun-damaged skin, for over 25 years. The laser design is specific in its ability to safely remove or noticeably decrease wrinkles and improve the overall color and skin texture of the face, neck and hands.
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Facials
Unfortunately, as we all age our skin becomes less elastic and if not properly cared for can make us look much older. Our licensed esthetician in concert with the staff of board certified dermatologists can conduct a thorough skin analysis.
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Faxel® Laser Treatment
Fraxel Laser Treatment is a unique laser therapy that dramatically improves fine lines, wrinkles, brown spots, and acne scars while improving skin texture and pigmentation with speedy healing and minimal to no downtime.
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FAMI
This plastic surgery alternative is an outpatient procedure that involves removal of tissue from the lower part of your body by liposuction and then refining and injecting the tissue into your facial muscles.
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Gemini Laser
This revolutionary laser therapy to remove vascular and pigmented lesions precisely targets unwanted skin discolorations, such as age spots, sun spots, small veins, or rosacea with exceptional results.
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General Dermatology
General dermatology is a medical specialty that treats diseases of the skin. Dermatologists treat the gamut of diseases including those that are relatively innocuous such as warts, nail fungus, rosacea and acne or more complex such as skin cancers like malignant melanoma and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma which can be very serious and life threatening.
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Gentle Waves®
Gentle Waves® LED Photomodulation Therapy is a unique non-invasive, non-thermal non-surgical procedure that uses light delivered through light emitting diodes.
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Hair Restoration
Hair loss affects approximately one-half of the male population, and to some degree some women as well. There are many products that claim to correct hair loss, including creams, medications and shampoos. For most people, none of these work effectively. Fortunately, hair transplantation is a safe and effective way to combat hair loss.
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Intense Pulsed Light
Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) is a device used to treat facial lines and wrinkles, broken facial veins, rosacea, freckles, age spots, and mild to moderate acne. IPL uses light produced with a broad spectrum of wavelengths to target vascular lesions or pigmented lesions.
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Juvederm®
As we age our bodies lose natural hyaluronic acid that gives us a youthful appearance, leaving our skin looking tired and wrinkled. Juvederm®, an injectable filler, can be used to improve skin appearance and diminish wrinkles, fine lines and folds leaving a smooth, fresh and younger appearance.
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Laser Facial Veins
Facial Veins can vary in size, depth and thickness. There are several lasers and light sources that can be used to treat facial veins depending on these factors. Photorejuvenation is a non-invasive intense pulse light (IPL) treatment that is used for to treat redness of a vascular origin, including symptoms of rosacea.
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Laser Hair Removal
Unlike the outdated methods of removing unwanted hair such as shaving, tweezing, creams and waxing which last for a very short period of time, laser hair removal provides long-lasting results. And unlike the extremely slow and painful method of electrolysis, laser assures gentle treatments and produce quick and smooth results.
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Laser Pigmented Lesions
Today, several new laser techniques are available to treat a wide variety of scars and stretch marks. The laser's energy stimulates the skin under the scar and causes the fibroblasts in the skin to divide again. It also stimulates the production of collagen. This thickens the skin under the scar until it closely resembles the surrounding normal skin.
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Laser Psoriasis
Psoriasis is a skin condition that can appear as a rash with dry, silvery, scaling patches. The affected areas are usually found on the elbows, knees, scalp, chest and trunk. The skin frequently cracks and is painful at times. The toenails and fingernails are sometimes affected.
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Laser Resurfacing
Laser Resurfacing is one way to erase the ravages of time on delicate skin. Lasers are particularly effective to remove fine lines, treat scars and reverse the effects of sun damage.
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Laser Spider Veins
Laser light has been used to treat vascular lesions like spider veins for several years. The laser eliminates unattractive spider veins with the gentle action of a light beam. This beam of light delivers heat to the spider veins causing destruction of the blood vessel.
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Laser Vascular
Intense laser light has been used to treat vascular lesions for many years. A vascular lesion is an abnormal collection of small blood vessels at the surface of the skin, causing a visible spot or patch. The Cynosure Pulse Dye Laser can be used on port wine stains, red marks, hemangiomas, rosacea, spider veins and other vascular lesions of the skin.
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Microdermabrasion
Microdermabrasion or Derma Peel, is a powerful, non-invasive procedure using a fine grit or non-bristle tip device to smooth away the surface layer of skin, most commonly on the face, chest and neck, removing dead cells and mechanically exfoliating the top layer of skin.
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Mohs Micrographic Surgery
Mohs micrographic surgery is a state-of-the-art treatment for skin cancer. The physician serves as surgeon, pathologist and reconstructive surgeon. This treatment relies on the precision and accuracy of a microscope to trace and remove all of the skin cancer down to its roots.
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Perlane®
Perlane®, an FDA-approved hyaluronic acid injectable filler, is used to fill in deeper wrinkles and folds around the eyes, cheeks and mouth, adding volume and lift to the face. As we age time and overexposure to the sun cause the hyaluronic acid that occurs naturally in our skin to diminish.
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Permanent Make Up
Permanent cosmetics is perfect for the busy person who has little time to apply conventional make-up, those who like to wake-up with a fresh natural look, the athlete who wants to look natural and for those with oily skin whose make-up or anyone with limited hand movement, poor eyesight, or contact lenses.
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PhotoDynamic Therapy
PhotoDynamic Therapy (PDT) is a safe, effective, non-surgical procedure used to treat a variety of skin conditions including acne, rosacea, sun-damage, scars, wrinkles, large pores, and actinic keratosis (Aks), an early potential signs of skin cancer.
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PhotoRejuvanation
A revolutionary procedure can solve multiple problems without having to endure pain, give up a lot of your time or face a long and painful recovery. Photorejuvination is a new, laser-like procedure that uses pulses of light to treat sun damage, wrinkles, rosacea, spider veins, reduce pore size, treat acne scarring and restore the skin's youthful elasticity.
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Radiesse
Radiesse is a non-surgical injectible filler most commonly used for facial contouring and lip enhancement. It is an ideal solution to smooth and revitalize key areas of your face such as smile lines, frown lines, lines between your nose and mouth and on the upper lip.
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Restylane®
Restylane® is a cosmetic dermal filler that restores volume and fullness to the skin to correct moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds of all types. It is also used to increase fullness and enhance the lips, define the lip line, fill scars and restore facial areas that have lost their youthful appearance.
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Scar and Stretch Marks
With advances in technology, there are a variety of lasers now used to treat both scars and stretch marks. The Pulse Dye Laser is a laser designed to improve the appearance of both scars and stretch marks. Laser treatment of scars and stretch marks does not require any anesthesia.
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Sclerotherapy
Sclerotherapy is a method used to destroy or eliminate unwanted veins (varicose veins) or spider veins (starburst veins) in which a solution called a sclerosing agent or irritant solution is injected into the vein. A majority of patients will be cleared or at least see improvement.
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Sculptra
Sculptra is a synthetic and biocompatible material that is injected below the surface of the skin to correct the effects of facial fat loss. Sunken cheeks, indentations, and hollow eyes will regain lost volume over time with Sculptra.
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Skin Cancer
Skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the United States and its incidence is increasing worldwide. Two of the most common are called basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and are located in areas of the skin that have frequent sun exposure.
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SmoothBeam™ Laser
SmoothBeam™ Laser is a new, non-invasive, highly effective laser treatment to rejuvenate the skin by stimulating the body's natural collagen-building process. SmoothBeam™ skin treatment is a revolutionary way to combat the signs of aging and acne scarring.
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Tattoo Removal
Tattoo removal using earlier methods such as dermabrasions, surgical excision and chemical peels are invasive, painful and often leave behind scars in place of the tattoo.
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Thermage® Tissue Tightening
The Thermage® Procedure is a revolutionary tissue tightening non-surgical face lift. Thermage works by heating the underlying layers of the skin with a unique delivery of radio frequency (RF) energy, all the while protecting the skin's top layer with a cooling spray.
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Titan™ Tissue Tightening
Titan™ therapy is a non-invasive, non-surgical treatment which utilizes an infrared light source to tighten flaccid, lax skin, and reserve the signs of aging without injury to the top layer of skin. The Titan heats the dermis to cause collagen contraction while preserving the epidermis through continuous cooling.
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Tumescent Liposuction
Tiposuction surgery is performed to remove localized fat deposits unresponsive to weight loss and exercise. Our dermatologists specialize in the Tumescent Liposuction technique, in which diluted anesthetic solution is injected locally into the areas being treated.
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Titan™ Laser Treatment
Titan™ therapy is a non-invasive, non-surgical treatment which utilizes an infrared light source to tighten flaccid, lax skin, and reserve the signs of aging without injury to the top layer of skin.
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Ulthera
Ultherapy is a new type of a nonsurgical procedure that uses medical ultrasound for cosmetic improvement of the skin. The Ulthera system delivers a low amount of focused ultrasound energy to the skin, at just the right depth to achieve a positive effect, leaving the surface of the skin undisturbed.
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VNUS Vein Closure
VNUS Vein Closure is a new non-surgical alternative for varicose veins. Until now, the only way to eliminate these veins was the use of lasers, injections, or invasive vein stripping surgery. These procedures were painful and involved lengthy recovery times.
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Zeltiq/Zerona®
The Zeltiq procedure utilizes highly controlled cooling technology to safely and effectively reduce and eliminate fat cells from specific areas of the body. When used in conjunction with Zerona®, a body contouring procedure to remove excess fat from targeted areas of the body, the results are impresive.