Anti Aging with Sasha - how to treat severe wrinkles.
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What to do about severe wrinkles. The advice given here on improving your skin texture is all well and good, but what if it is too late, the damage has been done and you have severe wrinkles that look like they are beyond any Botox and here to stay? Fear not. Its a bit more complex, but it can be done. You will need more drastic resurfacing and skin tightening with peels, dermabrasion, heat treatments, laser resurfacing or perhaps even a face and neck lift. You can get home micro dermabrasion and skin peels for mild treatment but by now you are probably needing the more spectacular effects of a good professional treatment. A good professional resurfacing - the sort with several weeks downtime, will take ten years off you if you combine it with something like Botox. Twenty if you do not have severe sagging (click here to find out what to do about saggy skin) and combine it with facial fillers like Aquamid. Sometimes the deep resurfacing causes melanin loss and your skin might get slightly paler with each treatment. Some skins, the ones prone to hyperpigmentation (this depends on your genetic background), might be unsuitable for radical treatment. Your skin resurfacing practitioner should offer you instead a series of more gentle treatments, perhaps with a YAG laser. If you are considering a peel - and you should if your main problem is wrinkling as opposed to sagging skin - it might be worth mentioning that chemical peels with stronger AHA's 40-70%) are faster, but the considerable skin rebuilding caused by a 70% AHA chemical peel (which is costly and may cause scarring) in 3 months can be duplicated safely by a 7% AHA cream in 9 months. You might therefore consider it worth your while to exercise a little patience and use the longer treatment. Long term use of AHAs give results similar to chemical peels, but like with all resurfacing and peeling treatments - always wear a Sun block after your treatment - even indoors, and for several weeks after you have finished your treatment! When your skin has had any kind of peel or resurfacing it does not even have usual minimal protection against UV radiation. A few minutes in the sun unprotected and you have wasted all your time and money! Severe wrinkle repairMost kinds of skin and wrinkle repair are like those above, that is - usually a process where the skin is irritated or slightly damaged by heating or exfoliating agents (alpha hydroxy acids, beta-hydroxy acids, retinoic acid, or mildly damaged by another resurfacing treatment). This is followed by a natural rebuilding of the skin that removes skin imperfections, rebuilds collagen and elastin fibers, tightens skin, and increases the amount of glycosamoinoglycans. Just to recap. If you only do one thing to prevent further wrinkles make it "avoiding daylight". Thats 70% of the secret, and sunblocks don't cost anything like as much as repairing the damage does! What to do about loose, sagging skin
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