Volume 5 | Issue 1 | SkinCare Physicians | 2008 Edition 1244 Boylston Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 | Phone: (617) 731-1600 | Fax: (617) 731-1601 SKINCARE PRESCRIPTION ARRIVES ! After years of exhaustive research and development, on the market, it can be confusing. To simplify SkinCare Physicians is proud to introduce our the skin care process, we have chosen the most new proprietary line of products, SKINCARE innovative and important ingredients available to PRESCRIPTION. With over 100 years of combined create a line of 8 products that our patients can use experience and expertise in skin care, the daily to care for their skin. dermatologists at SkinCare Physicians are uniquely positioned to develop this innovative product line. Unlike all the other products out there, SKINCARE The 8 products include: PRESCRIPTION is different. • Cleanser • Exfoliator The concept behind SKINCARE PRESCRIPTION is • Day Anti-Aging Moisturizer AHA with SPF 15 simple: provide a small group of carefully chosen • Night Anti-Aging Moisturizer with Retinol products that actually improve your skin, and at a • Anti-Aging Eye Cream reasonable price. Most patients use many different • Intensive Anti-Wrinkle Moisturizer (with the products, are never sure just which ones to use SkinCare Physicians special formula) when, and pay too much for them. Every day patients • Age Prevention Vitamin C Serum ask us about the products they should use to keep • Age Reversal Glycolic Acid Serum 10% their skin healthy and young looking, and because there are so many different products to choose from ( continued on page 2 ) YOUTH IN A SYRINGE: THE NEW WAY TO GET DRAMATIC RESULTS WITH FILLERS AND BOTOX INSIDE THIS ISSUE: While it may sound too good to be true, it has never lines between the eyes by combining Restylane been easier to achieve extraordinary results that can or Juvederm with Botox, creating improvement make you look younger in minutes. With the recent that lasts up to a year or more! All the novel uses 1 SkinCare Prescription Arrives.. explosion of FDA approved materials, we have at of these materials are designed to give you vastly our disposal a broad array of products to help erase improved results that last longer than ever before Youth In a Syringe................ 1 wrinkles, provide a natural and gentle brow lift, possible. And all of this can be achieved in a simple Smoother Skin with Lasers..... 2 augment the lips, soften unwanted vertical lip lines, offi ce visit with minimal down time. In the “old eliminate crow’s feet, and smooth the forehead. The days” everyone needed a facelift to look younger. Hot Topics ....................... 2 dermatologists at SkinCare Physicians use products The “new” way is to use carefully chosen fi llers, in such as Botox, Restylane, Juvederm, Perlane, combination with Botox and some of the novel laser Skin Cancer Alert ............... 2 Radiesse, Sculptra, fat, and silicone as modern day technologies we have at SCP, to create natural and sculpting materials. eye-pleasing contours. Adult Acne........................ 3 Aesthetician’s Corner ......... 3 As the face ages many of us lose small amounts of Our world class dermatologists at SkinCare fat, causing our once full cheeks, jawline, and eyes Physicians have been pioneers in Botox, Restylane, SkinCare Physicians News .... 3 to become hollow and sag. In a few short minutes, Juvederm, Perlane, Radiesse, Sculptra, fat and with very minimal discomfort, new volume fi llers silicone injections for years. They are internationally In the News ...................... 3 can be used to fi ll in grooves and depressions in the recognized as leaders in the fi eld, and have treated cheeks, as well as erase those tired dark circles and literally thousands of patients from all over New hollows from under your eyes. England and the world. Ask us what these talented physicians can do for you! We can also eliminate bands, wrinkles, and sagging on the neck by using Botox, often times combined beautifully with a fi ller, such as Restylane or Juvederm along the jawline. Longer lasting results can now be achieved for those troublesome frown Before Juvederm After Juvederm 1 SKINCARE PRESCRIPTION ( continued ) HOT TOPICS By using SKINCARE PRESCRIPTION, you will be able to maintain LASER ASSISTED LIPOSUCTION: THE NEWEST WAY TO GET THE the health and quality of your skin, prevent future sun damage and SHAPE YOU WANT aging, as well as repair past damage. And you can do this all with SkinCare Physicians is one of the only practices in one easy to use group of products. The unique ability of SKINCARE the country to have several brand new liposuction PRESCRIPTION to maintain, prevent, and treat all at the same time technologies. Bursting onto the scene in 2007 was is what makes SKINCARE PRESCRIPTION so simple and powerful. SmartLipo, featured on national television and in Before People Magazine. Two other exciting technologies, The next time that you are in to visit us at SkinCare Physicians or CoolLipo and ProLipo, have also been developed in SkinCare Aesthetics, please ask us about our exciting new line of the past 12 months. SkinCare Physicians is products, SKINCARE PRESCRIPTION. We will be happy to show you acknowledged as a leader in liposuction, and this how this unique and powerful system can help you care for your skin. continues with our pioneering research with these hot new technologies. It has never been easier, or SMOOTHER SKIN WITH LASERS: UNBELIEVABLE faster, to achieve the smooth, sculpted shape you After have been thinking about, all with much less pain PROGRESS IN 2007 and down time than you may have dreamed of! The world of skin smoothing lasers has improved dramatically over the past 12 months. In the not so distant past, improvement from THERMAGE: IMPROVED RESULTS AND NEW TECHNIQUES FOR laser procedures required signifi cant down time. Laser resurfacing, THE FACE AND BODY deep chemical peels and dermabrasion all gave impressive After 9 years of research and clinical experience with Thermage results, but required at least a week or two, or more, for recovery. at SCP, we have developed techniques to dramatically improve Fortunately, all that has changed. results with this amazing non-surgical skin tightening device. The face, jawline, upper neck, even the arms, abdomen, and thighs With the introduction of fractionated can be tightened in a very comfortable 45-90 minute and minimally ablative resurfacing, procedure. Pain is a thing of the past with our new patients can now attain truly remarkable techniques, while at the same time we have new ways improvement in the tone, texture, to signifi cantly improve results. quality, and smoothness of their Before Fraxel After Fraxel skin without signifi cant healing time. Pioneering work in two studies led by our Wrinkles, acne scars, brown sun spots, melasma, scars, as well as Before dermatologists at 16 centers around the world reveals the general appearance of the skin can all be dramatically improved that Thermage is now a highly effective treatment after a series of these minimally invasive resurfacing procedures. No for loose skin, and now even for unwanted fat. New other laser or light source has been able to produce these impressive technology and techniques allow us to sculpt the results with so little recovery time. jawline, fi rm the arms, and even tighten and shrink the belly with a staggering 94% success rate. So next time Unlike traditional resurfacing lasers, fractionated devices (such as you are in for a visit, ask us about how our novel and the Fraxel, Active FX, Pearl, and Sciton) intentionally treat only a After proven Thermage techniques can work for you. carefully selected percentage of the surface area of the skin, which signifi cantly improves safety. Fractionated devices are also safe THE INFUSION CENTER AT SKINCARE PHYSICIANS enough to be used to treat areas off the face, such as the neck, chest The Psoriasis Treatment Center at SkinCare Physicians is proud and hands. These ground breaking new laser technologies allow for to announce the opening of a new, state of the art infusion suite. safer and more rapid healing, producing dramatic improvement in This facility dramatically expands the options for treating psoriasis skin from virtually all over the body. A series of several treatments, by offering Remicade®, an exciting recent breakthrough for those spaced approximately one to two months apart, are recommended for suffering from severe psoriasis. With this ground breaking center, optimal results. SkinCare Physicians continues our commitment to provide the fi nest dermatologic care available in the world. The doctors at SkinCare Physicians have been pioneers in these technologies, and have lectured to dermatologists and plastic surgeons around the world. One of the things that is unique about SKIN CANCER ALERT: OVER 1 MILLION CASES SkinCare Physicians is the number of laser devices our physicians DIAGNOSED LAST YEAR have at their disposal. With more than fi ve different minimally Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed in the ablative and fractionated lasers, our doctors are able to create United States. Alarmingly, 1 in 5 Americans will develop some form a custom treatment plan that is right for your individual skin of skin cancer during their lifetime. The two most common forms characteristics. So the next time you are in for a visit, ask us about of skin cancer are basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell the faster healing and improved results SkinCare Physicians reliably carcinoma (SCC), which tend to arise on sun exposed skin, and obtains with these superb new lasers. fortunately have a better than 95% fi ve-year cure rate if detected and treated early. ( continued on page 3 ) 2 Blepharoplasty | Botox | Contour Threadlift | Fat transplantation | Fraxel laser | Hair transplantation | Laser hair removal | Laser removal of red & brown spots Melanoma, although less common, can be fatal if allowed to progress and spread.