Opinion
Nomadic Mongolian skin care practices
Applying homemade yogurt to the skin is among the skin care practices used by women in rural Mongolia.
Opinion
Gray hair
Besides skin wrinkling, volume shifts, and photoaging, graying hair can also be a telltale sign of aging. While it was recently a fashionable...
Opinion
Hard water versus your skin
The impact of hard water on skin includes an increased prevalence of atopic dermatitis, xerosis, and pruritus.
Opinion
The power of words in aesthetic procedures and healing patients
The words used prior to procedures can put a patient’s mind at ease or cause further anxiety about ideas of needles, scalpels, pain, risk of...
News
Beauty sleep: Sleep deprivation and the skin
Sleep deprivation affects wound healing, collagen growth, skin hydration, and skin texture. Inflammation is also higher in sleep-deprived patients...
Article
Cannulas versus needles for soft tissue filler injection
With loss of deep fat pad compartments and bony resorption with normal aging, soft tissue fillers have become a mainstay in minimally invasive...
Article
The hidden vascular component to melasma
Let’s revisit this topic. We hate melasma. It is recalcitrant, resistant, and often recurs. But how many of us dermatologists look at melasma with...
Aesthetic Dermatology
Highlights from the ASDS Annual Conference 2016
At this year’s American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS) annual meeting, many of the hot topics pertained to tightening and smoothness of...
Aesthetic Dermatology
Postinflammatory erythema
The troubling, frustrating part of acne: the persistent acne scars that are often a prolonged battle for most of our patients.
News
Aesthetic dermatology: What do we know so far about Volbella?
Juvéderm Volbella XC will not be available for use in the United States until October 2016. However, the product was first approved in Europe in...
Aesthetic Dermatology
Color correcting – for skin blemishes
News
Laser and electrocautery plume
Dr. Naissan O. Wesley discusses the potential perils created from laser hair removal and electrocautery plume.
