Regenerative medicine in aesthetics – improve your skin by harnessing your natural regenerative superpowers!!
From axolotls to humans, regenerative advances offer lasting solutions for healthier, younger skin
The Axoloti salamander is famous for its ability to regrow it’s own arms, legs, tail, brain and heart! But it’s not alone in this amazing regenerative capacity. Many members of the animal kingdom have a surprising capacity to restore injured or damaged tissues – including humans!
The practice of regenerative medicine has been exploding in recent years as advances in research and technology lead to new procedures and treatments. Aesthetic medicine is fast embracing these discoveries.
Whether an individual has injury (eg. acne scars) or damage (UV damage, wrinkles and sagging) or just wants to maintain healthy skin regenerative medicine products and procedures are increasingly popular for patients seeking natural and long lasting results from treatment.
The primary goals in aesthetic regenerative medicine are:
Replace lost and damaged collagen (to thicken skin)
Replace lost and damaged fibrin (to firm skin)
Increase elastin (to improve elasticity and skin snap back)
Reduce redness
Improve surface irregularities (wrinkles, pores, lesions, scars)
Reduce hyperpigmentation
Restore optimal physiological function of the skin and skin barrier
Regenerative procedures harness the power of the human body to repair and restore itself to optimal function. Post treatment results can be dramatic while also being entirely natural and long lasting.
What types of regenerative medicine treatment options are available?
Controlled Injury – these are procedures where a controlled injury stimulates skin repair/restoration by use of lasers, heat, light, mechanical or chemical injury
Microneedling (mechanical) – thousands of small puncture wounds lead to improved skin texture and tone while boosting collagen/elastin and fibrin
Laser – resurfacing by destroying damaged tissue and having the injured area replaced with new and healthy skin (such as Halo Laser, Clear & Brilliant Laser, Profractional Laser & more)
Light – BBL/IPL targets overgrowth of vessels/pigment deposits and stimulates the body to cauterize the vessels and clear the pigment while boosting collagen production
Ultrasound and radiofrequency energy – heat based injury that stimulates collagen/elastin and fibrin production to tighten and thicken the skin
Chemical – acids in combination with pharmaceuticals cause skin sloughing/peeling resulting in skin renewal
Injectable biostimulatory treatments
Radiesse Dermal Filler: Calcium suspended in a gel matrix is injected into the skin; this matrix acts as a scaffold onto which the body builds new collagen, elastin and fibrin
Platelet rich plasma/fibrin – a patient’s own blood serum is condensed to yield high concentration of platelets then injected into the scalp, skin or applied post treatment; growth factors in the platelets stimulate new collagen/elastin/fibrin production
PRP for Undereye Treatment Results
Topical agents
Peptides – amino acid chains that act as building blocks and signals to stimulate skin regenerative processes
Retinols – Vitamin A acids proven to rejuvenate skin through multiple pathways
Antioxidants – aging prevention; increased collagen production; increase fibrin health; clear pigment
Exosomes – growth factors derived from donor stem cell lines; applied topically to boost regenerative processes and speed healing after treatment
Harness your superhero power through regenerative medical procedures and at home topical treatments.
Visit a trusted and experienced medical aesthetics clinic for a consultation to determine which options suit your goals, budget and lifestyle.
