Face Treatments by Dr Wee Clinic

You don't necessarily have to go under the knife for a facelift. With the latest treatments and technology, facelifts have become more and more common. If you have sagging or loose skin, a facelift can help you stimulate collagen production tighten your skin for a younger, fresher looking complexion. In a non-surgical facelift, threads are used to pull the skin. These threads are absorbable by our body, and are the same type of threads as those used to suture cuts on our skin. These threads pull our skin from the inside to an upwards and inwards direction to lift the skin, contour the face, and enhance facial features.

Dermal fillers are usually made of hyaluronic acid, which is a substance naturally present in our body. Hence, it is usually safe and compatible when injected into our body. Dermal fillers are injected into our face for restoration, enhancement, or facial refinement. Usually, dermal filler injections are used to treat wrinkles, skin rehydration, facial volume, and also nose, chin and lip augmentation.

Thread lift is a more recent technological treatment to lift sagging skin and reduce wrinkles, resulting in a more youthful looking, redefined face. Using surgical suture threads to lift your skin, this treatment produces almost immediate results, and the ingredients in the suture threads also stimulates your body to produce collagen to maintain its youthful look. The effects for Threadlift can last up to 18 months.

Face contouring is a procedure to help you achieve the shape and contour of the face you want. There are several different treatments that can be used in contouring. You can discuss with the doctor to see which type of face contouring treatment is the most suitable for your desired outcome.

Cheek augmentation is done to enhance the shape of the face, particularly at the cheek area. Cheek augmentation is usually done to fill out sunken cheeks or to create high cheekbones. Cheek augmentation can be done on an outpatient basis, and full recovery period usually lasts for about 1 to 2 weeks.

Buccal fat is also commonly known as the baby fats on your face or cheeks that don't seem to wear off even with age. If you wish to have a more defined jawbone and more prominent cheekbones, having a buccal fat removal can result in a thinner, more refined face shape. The doctor will remove the buccal fat from the inside of your mouth.

V-shape face is getting more and more popular these days. To achieve this outlook, several treatments like facelift, chin liposuction, buccal fat removal or chin implants may be involved, depending also on your current face shape. You can discuss with the doctor to decide on the most suitable procedure for you.

Chin augmentation reshapes the chin and chin line, sometimes to enlarge the chin or to sharpen the chin. Chin augmentation can also be done for health purposes, to balance facial features and strengthen the chin line. Patients usually need to stay for at least one night after a chin augmentation procedure. Full recovery period for chin augmentations usually take a month or up to 6 weeks.

Laugh lines, or also known as nasolabial folds, are one of the common features of aging. These are the two skin folds that run from the corner of your nose the corner of your mouth. There are several treatment types for getting rid of laugh lines, like fillers, skin lifting, or laser. You can discuss with your doctor on which treatment is suitable for you.

Has your skin lose its elasticity and become loose due to a loss of collagen due to aging? Or maybe you have experienced a weight loss but your skin has started to become loose and saggy? Loose skin treatment like skin tightening, skin lifting or body contouring can be done to return your skin to its tight, youthful appearance.

Mesotherapy is the injection of medications or nutrients to aid in hair growth to treat hair loss. During a mesotherapy treatment, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other active substances are injected directly into the third layer of our skin where our blood vessels are, activating the dormant (inactive) hair follicles and stimulate the scalp to aid with hair growth.

Do you have loose or sagging skin? Skin lifting can help in rejuvenating your looks, giving you tighter, more youthful looking skin. Common treatment areas are the face, arms, and thighs. Have a discussion with your doctor on your expected results, and you can decide which treatment to have to achieve your desired look.

When the tissues and muscles around your eyes weaken and loosen during the aging process, you may notice eye bags developing under your eyes. However, eye bag cream or eye bag removal products are only effective as preventive care, and cannot effectively treat eye bags after they have developed. There are different types of treatment for getting rid of eye bags, like PRP or dermal fillers. Discuss with your doctor to decide on which is the most suitable treatment for your condition.

• Eye Bags

Did you know that your skin is actually constantly exposed to harmful conditions like ultraviolet radiations and pollution, causing a loss of moisture and elasticity for your skin? Skin rejuvenation helps to refresh your facial skin and get rid of dead cells and any particles inhibiting healthy skin growth. There are several different technologies used in facial rejuvenation which you can choose with your doctor's advice.

Have dermal fillers injected but didn't achieve your expected outcome? Or you have a different desired look you wish to achieve now? You can discuss with the doctor about fiiler correction treatments, to re-adjust or make changes to your present fillers.

Collagen, in human or animal, is the most abundant protein that makes up most parts of the living body. Collagen is a natural protein, that makes up 70%-80% of our skin dermal layer. Thus, replenishing collagen on our skin becomes essential in order to maintain a youthful look by delaying the signs of aging. While we can’t demand our collagen production to run like when we’re younger, we may, however, induce some collagen to add on to what we have, or cause the body part to produce more collagen. Hence, collagen fillers may be a way to help you regain your youthful looks by “plumping up” your wrinkles and folds. They are also useful in correcting fine lines and wrinkles.

If you don't prefer invasive treatments or facelift surgeries for your anti-aging treatment, you can opt for more technologically-advanced skin tightening procedures using laser. If your have sagging skin, loose skin, wrinkles, lines, or uneven skin tone and texture, laser skin tightening can help you treat these skin conditions and return youthfulness to your face without any surgical process.

Did you know that your skin is actually constantly exposed to harmful conditions like ultraviolet radiations and pollution, causing a loss of moisture and elasticity for your skin? Skin rejuvenation helps to refresh your facial skin and get rid of dead cells and any particles inhibiting healthy skin growth. There are several different technologies used in facial rejuvenation which you can choose with your doctor's advice.

During our aging process, our skin cells begin to lose moisture and less collagen is produced in our skin, causing aging signs, especially wrinkles. Treatments for wrinkles, either surgical or non-surgical options, help you get rid of your wrinkles, and you can discuss with your doctor to have other effect like skin tightening done, too.

Sometimes we need to refresh and rejuvenate our skin that is constantly exposed to harmful conditions like ultraviolet radiations and pollution, causing a loss of moisture and elasticity for your skin. A laser skin resurfacing treatment can help you get rid of the blemishes on your skin, depending on your decision made with the doctor on what to treat, resulting in healthy, glowing skin.

• Pigmentation
• Acne
• Acne Scars
• Chicken Pox Scars

Fat injection procedures extract fats from areas where you have them in excess, usually in your thighs, tummy, or buttocks. After that, these fats are injected into areas where you desire - cheeks, breasts, nose, or other parts to create a better contouring effect and give you a more natural youthful appearance. Fat injection uses fats from your own body tissue, so you won't have to worry about your body rejecting foreign substances.

Do you have veins developing on your face and skin, becoming more and more visible? These facial veins are actually dilated blood vessels present due to the weakening of elastic fibres in the walls of the blood vessel. Proper treatments like facial thread vein removal therapy can help you make these veins no longer visible.

• Facial Thread Vein