The modern cosmetic & aesthetic patient doesn’t have a lot of time to spare. Younger, busier, more on-the-go patients are exploring new treatment options by the millions throughout our nation. A combination of social media use, remote conferencing, and a…
As a medspa provider or plastic surgeon, you’ve seen countless methods, implants, and devices come and go. As a cosmetic enthusiast, keeping an eye out for the next “big thing” in aesthetic treatments, you’ve seen much the same. Introducing patients…
The concept of a “thread lift” is not necessarily new, but accomplishing a thread lift with dissolvable, safe, and reversible PDO threads is. PDO thread lifts have taken off as a minimally invasive, non-surgical facelift procedure in medspas and plastic…
Surgical and non-surgical aesthetic treatments haven’t always enjoyed the wide acceptance they receive today. In the 1990s, the aesthetic and plastic surgery communities suffered from an unfortunate reputation. Public perception of the treatments, procedures, and practitioners was less than flattering…
In the 21st century, conversations about beauty standards and notions of body acceptance are certainly in vogue. More than at any other time in American history, we’re addressing what “ideal beauty” means, who the concept serves, and how it relates…
PDO Max threads are always evolving. As a world-leading manufacturer of some of the safest, most effective threads on the market today, we’re less interested in resting on our laurels and more interested in pushing boundaries. More than anything, we…
For all intents and purposes, we are our faces. Over millennia, the human brain has been tuned by nature to detect nearly imperceptible subtleties in facial structures, compositions, and ratios. Each of us carries a mental library of faces—those of…
Over time, some words and phrases lose their power through overuse. This is especially true of the cosmetics industry and TV or online commercials, boasting about “lustrous” hair or “proteins and vitamins” for “smooth” skin. Serums brighten, hydrate, or make…
Over the years, plenty of cosmetic procedures have gone the way of the dinosaurs. New technologies and methods arise, gain popularity for an instant, then vanish into the halls of cosmetic history. Electrolysis, for example, once used electrical currents to…
The methods behind a surgical facelift are well known. Through a process of targeted incisions, tissue tightening, fat sculpting, and contouring, facelifts ultimately take years off the face. Other treatments (like Botox®, dermal fillers, and brow lifts) are similarly understood…