Rejuvenation Medicine,  or Anti-Aging Medicine is a developing science.

The revolution started when Doctors started using injections of botulinum toxin, or Botox, to relax facial muscles and reduce lines and wrinkles around the eye.  This was some 30 years ago and the basic treatments are still performed in pretty much the same way.  We have a much greater understanding of how it works, and what doses give the best results and in what people. We also have a far greater understanding of the safety profile of the treatment.  (It’s safer than crossing the road!).  But fundamentally, relaxing the muscles around the eyes to reduce lines and wrinkles is still just the first step in the snowball of techniques that has developed over the years.

Safe injectable dermal fillers were developed that can fill out smooth lines and plump out folds in the skin, as well as rejuvenate thin and poorly defined lips. Next came dermal filler technology that would provide longer lasting robust products that could easily and painlessly be placed deeper into the tissues to provide a volumising effect, in much the same way that a plastic surgeon may have attempted to achieve with cheek and chin implants.

Our anatomical understanding of the aging face has progressed to tell us how loss of facial fat, in very specific areas, seems to progress faster than in other areas, and how this causes characteristic and reproducible aging features in most people.  This allowed practitioners to further refine revolumisation techniques for a more natural look, as well as to start to treat areas such as the eyebrow with greater accuracy and better results.   We also now have techniques such as vectoring, which involves dermal injection in specific directions to induce a lifting effect to areas such as the jowl and the cheek.

Outside of Botulinum toxins and dermal fillers practitioners have been paying more attention to the skin, with non invasive light based treatments to reduce pigmentation and remove fine blood vessels.  Chemical peels to increase skin turnover and even out tone, microneedling to increase collagen synthesis and treat acne scarring, lasers to resurface the skin, stem cells, radiofrequency, microcurrent stimulation, mesotherapy.  The list goes on and on.

Our medical directors at Clinetix believe we now have the techniques and the technology to restore a natural healthy and vital look to anyone, without giving the appearance of having had “work done”.

If you want to talk to Clinetix about how rejuvenation medicine can make you look naturally more refreshed, get in touch on 0141 221 0229.  You can arrange a confidential consultation with one of the team at our West End clinic.