Face Shaping

If it seems your face is changing shape, you're right! What's going on?

Facial contours are impacted by aging, gravity, genetics, and more. If you're in your 50s, you can usually readily notice the changes.  Evidence of skin laxity, volume loss, creases, and wrinkles can begin in your 30s, becoming more pronounced and evident as time passes.

As we age, our skin naturally begins to grow lax and sag. Ultherapy is a non-invasive, FDA-approved procedure performed to lift and tighten skin on the brow, chin, neck, and décolletage. Using advanced ultrasound technology, this procedure targets structural layers deep below the skin’s surface, lifting and tightening the skin naturally, without surgery or downtime.

Enlarged masseter muscles can produce a bulky and masculine jawline – one that seems almost etched in stone – and detract from the softer, more feminine qualities many women desire. Masseter muscle enlargement may be a result of bruxism (tooth grinding), an often unconscious consequence of stress and anxiety. Pronounced jaw muscles may also be the result of genetics, unavoidable regardless of your habits.

Smoker's lines, lip wrinkles, shrinking lips, old-looking neck? Where do you start?

Although there are technological devices that help soften lower facial aging, often it's simple and quick to take advantage of injectables.

A defined jawline can be an attractive sign of fitness, youth, and vitality. As you age, it can be harder to attain such a profile through diet and exercise alone. Some people struggle with wrinkling skin and drooping jowls which can be addressed with skin tightening, injectables or fat destruction.

How Can I Make My Jawline Look Slimmer?

Scores of women are rushing to dermatologists, complaining of temporomandibular joint dysfunction (or TMJ), which is the latest excuse for getting neuromodulators like Botox injected into the jaw…But for a perfectly defined jawline that defies gravity and enhances any profile, Botox is just the beginning.

A double chin is one of the most frustrating parts of getting older and gaining weight.

In a word: Yes! CoolMini – the cleverly named CoolSculpting device miniaturized for treating double chins – works splendidly. Just like the larger CoolSculpting device, it works by freezing excess fat cells, which are then disposed of by your body over time. The CoolMini is simply a smaller device designed for smaller areas of the body.

Ultherapy is the non-surgical face-lifting treatment of choice at the Los Angeles practice of dermatologist Rebecca Fitzgerald, MD. An FDA-approved treatment for lifting and tightening tissues of the face, neck, chin and décolletage, Ultherapy is highly effective at restoring more youthful skin without surgery. But will it work for you?

Have you been using creams and lotions to try to stave off the facial sagging that accompanies age? If so, you may feel like your efforts to reverse the sagging are without success. When nearing middle age, many people begin to notice facial drooping creeping up on them. So is a surgical facelift the only option? Fortunately, no! Ultherapy acts as a non-surgical lift.