Botox And Muscle Relaxants

By using your facial muscles repeatedly throughout your lifetime, your skin is creased in areas of greatest use. Your ageing process causes the slow down of collagen and elastin production in your skin so as you get older, these areas over use become damaged and your lines become permanent.

However, by reducing the movement of your muscles in these areas your skin stops being creased and is allowed to recover, causing your lines to soften or even fade away. In the areas treated, your muscles are temporarily inactivated, during which time you can break the subconscious habit of overusing these muscles.

Depending on your individuality and the product used, the response to treatment can vary from a relaxation of your muscles to an inability to move your muscles.

For the first couple of years, frequent treatments are required to ‘re-educate’ your facial muscles. Thereafter, treatments would be less frequent until a yearly maintenance treatment is normally all that is required. When the medication is injected into your muscle it causes it to become weakened or inactivated. It stops your muscle from functioning by blocking your neuromuscular transmission – it stops chemical messages from your nerves to your muscles.

Appledore clinicians use prescription medication with over 40 years of research and development, used widely around the globe for the softening and elimination of wrinkles.

Derma fillers

Restylane is the trade name of a product containing hyaluronic acid which is used in the treatment of fine lines and wrinkles, we use this product alongside similar ones.

Our thanks to Restylane for the use of this information from their website Q-Med.

What happens as we age..?
Young skin is smooth and elastic and contains a large amount of hyaluronic acid that helps the skin look healthy. As we grow older, the ability of the skin to produce hyaluronic acid decreases and the amount of hyaluronic acid begins to fall. As hyaluronic acid helps to bind water, the ability of the skin to retain water also declines with age. As a result, the skin becomes drier, thinner and less able to restore itself. The loss of skin fullness also means that the skin becomes looser. This leads to wrinkling and the older appearance of the skin.

What causes lines and wrinkles..?
The dermis is the skin layer responsible for the skin's elasticity and resilience. The dermis functions as the skin's support structure, containing collagen, elastin and biological substances whose main function is to hold moisture in the skin. One of these substances is hyaluronic acid. As we age, the amount of collagen and hyaluronic acid decreases and the elastic elastin fibres become looser and tend to gather in formations, creating wrinkles and folds. However, age is not the only cause of wrinkles. Smoking, sun bathing and pollution damage the structure of your skin, irrespective of age.

The layers of your skin
Your skin consists of three main layers:the epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissue. The epidermis is the outer layer that protects you from heat and cold. The condition of the epidermis determines how your skin looks and also how well your skin absorbs and holds moisture. Wrinkles, however, are formed in lower layers. The dermis is the middle layer of the skin and the skin's support structure. It is the thickest layer and comprises a network of collagen and elastin fibres. The subcutanous tissue consists mainly of fat that keeps us warm, stores energy and protects inner organs.

Exercise to combat wrinkles
Did you know that exercise not only strengthens your body, but also reinforces your skin? When you subject your body to pressure in a work-out, you also exercise your skin. The increase in blood circulation increases the renewal of cells and makes the capillaries stronger. In this way, you prevent your facial skin becoming bloated, wrinkled and wealed. (M+ Bra, January, 2003)6-8 hours of sleep

If you want to appear full of life, don't compromise on your sleep. If you don’t allow your body to rest for six to eight hours each night, your face will soon show signs of this. (Elle, March, 2003)

Before treatment - After treatment - 6 months after treatment

Lines from nose to below cheek

Frown lines

Heart Lips™

This fantastic enhancing treatment that all the celebrities are raving about, is available NOW with Dr Teresa at Appledore Dental Clinic.

Lips have a very strong influence on the aesthetic quality of the face. Along with large eyes, a small nose and delicate features, full lips are traditionally regarded as typically female facial traits. Lips are not immune to the effect of ageing, however, dissatisfaction with lip shape or size is not necessarily associated purely with ageing – increasingly Dr Teresa is seeing younger women who are looking to enhance their appearance with lip augmentation.

A good treatment should always ensure that your lips are in harmony, balance and proportion with the overall size and shape of your face.

This new technique was devised by Dr Bob Khanna and came from looking at women who were naturally very beautiful - many of these women had a particular facial feature in common – a discernible cleft in the mid-line of the lower and sometimes even upper lip that results in a twin lobe shape. This means that their lips are naturally heart-shaped.

Dr Teresa @ Appledore is fully licensed by Dr Bob Khanna to provide Heart Lips™

Heart Lips™is a technique that recreates that natural, heart shaped appearance

Heart Lips™ is inspired by nature and emulates the heart-shaped lips seen in some of the world’s most beautiful women

Heart Lips™is not an appropriate option for all women; it is particularly suitable for younger women with a tapered oval facial shape and is aimed at women who desire a more voluptuous, more feminine, yet beautifully natural look

Heart Lips™  is the finishing touch for the woman who really cares about how she looks

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