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Did you know that dark circles are not caused by a lack of sleep but by blood that pools in the vessels that lie close to the skin’s surface? They can also arise when fat bulges out: light cannot be reflected properly, casting a shadow under the eye. Additionally, sun exposure can aggravate under-eye darkness by boosting melanin production, as can allergies since they cause the veins to become congested and enlarged. A lack of sleep, as well as dehydration, can emphasize dark under-eye circles, but nine times out of 10, sleep is not the culprit.

Preventing dark circles is not always easy but loading up on vitamin K has been shown to be a worthwhile option. Some under-eye darkness is genetic and related to inherently thin skin. The thinner the skin is under the eye, the more pigmentation shows through. Loading up on vitamin K, both internally and with topical products, is a good option since it strengthens and clots blood vessels to stop the pooling that causes the darkness. Additionally, excessive sun exposure intensifies dark circles, so always wear an SPF formulated for the eye area and always protect your eyes from the sun with sunglasses.

So how do you rid dark circles? If they are the result of excess fat, hyaluronic acid fillers are a good way to counteract dark circles. But for the most dramatic difference, lower eyelid surgery should be performed. Once the protruding fat bag is tightened or removed, there is no puffy area to create a shadow, helping to diminish the dark circles.

Would you consider lower eyelid surgery to help the appearance of dark circles?

Tear troughs too can be easily treated with fillers, please note that Dr Young is very well experienced in operating around the peri-orbital region, and combines his surgical knowledge to carefully treat these areas.

Many people are lucky to have full volumed faces, and cheeks are certainly an area we are focused on now.
But some faces can be out of proportion, and you may look a bit “chipmunky”.

A procedure we do quite often to enhance the oval shape of patients is cheek reduction surgery.
Essentially caused by a fat pad that may be too big for your face.

With a 15 minute procedure Dr Young can (under local anaesthetic) remove this fat pads.

Recovery involves mouth washes, and most people return to work the next day.

Call in to see how this procedure may help you.

Don’t forget, we do many other surgical procedures, eg ear lobe reduction, and repair of torn earlobes.

Physiological benefits:
1- It lowers oxygen consumption.
2- It decreases respiratory rate.
3- It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
4- Increases exercise tolerance.
5- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
6- Good for people with high blood pressure.
7- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
8- Decreases muscle tension
9- Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
10- Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
11- Helps in post-operative healing.
12- Enhances the immune system.
13- Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
14- Enhances energy, strength and vigour.
15- Helps with weight loss
16- Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage
17- Higher skin resistance
18- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
19- Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
20- Decreases the aging process.
21- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)
22- prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases
23- Makes you sweat less
24- Cure headaches & migraines
25- Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning
26- Reduced Need for Medical Care
27- Less energy wasted
28- More inclined to sports, activities
29- Significant relief from asthma
30- improved performance in athletic events
31- Normalizes to your ideal weight
32- harmonizes our endocrine system
33- relaxes our nervous system
34- produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
35- Cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation).

Psychological benefits:
36- Builds self-confidence.
37- Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour.
38- Resolve phobias & fears
39- Helps control own thoughts
40- Helps with focus & concentration
41- Increase creativity
42- Increased brain wave coherence.
43- Improved learning ability and memory.
44- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
45- Increased emotional stability.
46- improved relationships
47- Mind ages at slower rate
48- Easier to remove bad habits
49- Develops intuition
50- Increased Productivity
51- Improved relations at home & at work
52- Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
53- Helps ignore petty issues
54- Increased ability to solve complex problems
55- Purifies your character
56- Develop will power
57- greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
58- react more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
59- increases one’s perceptual ability and motor performance
60- higher intelligence growth rate
61- Increased job satisfaction
62- increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
63- decrease in potential mental illness
64- Better, more sociable behaviour
65- Less aggressiveness
66- Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
67- Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals
68- Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation
69- Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
70- Increases sense of responsibility
71- Reduces road rage
72- Decrease in restless thinking
73- Decreased tendency to worry
74- Increases listening skills and empathy
75- Helps make more accurate judgements
76- Greater tolerance
77- Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways
78- Grows a stable, more balanced personality
79- Develops emotional maturity

Spiritual benefits:
80- Helps keep things in perspective
81- Provides peace of mind, happiness
82- Helps you discover your purpose
83- Increased self-actualization.
84- Increased compassion
85- Growing wisdom
86- Deeper understanding of yourself and others
87- Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
88- Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
89- Increased acceptance of oneself
90- helps learn forgiveness
91- Changes attitude toward life
92- Creates a deeper relationship with your God
93- Attain enlightenment
94- greater inner-directedness
95- Helps living in the present moment
96- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
97- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
98- Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”
99- Experience a sense of “Oneness”
100- Increases the synchronicity in your life.

Wow, lets all start meditating!

Dr Young has been invited to the Sydney shows, and will tried to make most of the night shows.

Opening night he saw Aurielia Costarella , and Bec and Bridge at the OPT, then in Alexandria it was Stolen Girlfriends Club.

Closing night, Ksubi, was without animals.

Beauty comes in all shapes and forms. From the hairstyles, to new makeup uses, painted on the body where spashes of paint.

Big cheeks where in, as was intricate eye makeup.

Backstage Mr Perdis, was working his magic for Alex Perry.

Dr Young would like to thank sponsors Harpers Bazaar, Blackberry, and FTV.

Dr Young will be off to Bangkok for meetings with some  local Plastic Surgeons, and assess local clinics this week.

The tips mentioned in this section will help an individual extend results of a liquid face lift, advanced dermal filler or awi(anti-wrinkle injection) treatment.  These recommendations will also help the patient’s own skin help itself in maintaining results, so that an individual will – over time – require fewer repeat touch up treatments. Most individuals will maintain results for gradually longer and longer times between touch ups.  These tips will, in many cases, also help patients need less product in future touch ups.  One of the greatest advantages of following each of these tips is to lower lifetime maintenance costs of preserving natural facial contours and healthy, youthful skin.

Tip #1   Use High Grade Skin Care Products

Effective skin care is one of the best ways to continue to reap the benefits of your liquid face lift treatment.  The problem is that there are so many exaggerated claims about skin care products that it can be difficult to sort through the vortex of options to determine what really works.  While some over the counter skin products live up to their hype, you might want to consider using medical grade skin care products.  Many of the products are made to higher specifications than similar products found over the counter.  Many physicians who carry liquid face lift products also carry medical grade skin care products, eg Environ, +/- roller.

It is important to use products that will help you prevent future damage to your skin.  A high grade sun screen worn every day can be important in your defense against future skin damage and to assist your liquid face lift products as they stimulate your own skin to produce collagen.  A facial cleanser, which balances pH while it exfoliates and extracts impurities is important.  Regular application of a high grade moisturizer can help prolong your results.  Antioxidant products may be advisable, as well.  Ask your doctor about an effective skin care program to help you help your skin maintain the restored contouring and correction of a liquid face lift procedure.

Tip #2   Follow Dr Young’s Advice for Immediate Post Treatment Care

Dr Young  will likely tell you not to lie down for a few hours after your awi treatment.  You may be asked to avoid exaggerated muscle movement or excessive physical activity for a few hours following your liquid face lift procedure.  Following this and other advice that your physician will give you during your treatment session will help the products achieve maximum efficacy. Relax, and be healthy.

Tip #3   Maintain Your Results with Routine Touch Up Treatments

This probably should be the #1 or #2 tip because it can have an enormous impact on how the liquid face lift products stimulate your own skin to regenerate collagen, and how the products will relax the etching of lines over time to restore healthier skin.  It seems that the most common mistake individuals make after they have a liquid face lift, advanced dermal filler or awi treatment is that they don’t return timely for a follow up or touch up treatment.  Often patients make this decision in order to save money.  However, if you are looking for enduring results, money spent in early follow up treatments often equates to tremendous savings over a lifetime.

With respect to most of the advanced dermal fillers, it takes a few touch up sessions before the body really begins to work on its own to regenerate collagen.  The effects of regular touch ups are often cumulative, and help extend results for longer and longer intervals between touch up treatments.  It is possible that an individual who has maintained regular dermal filler touch up treatments for two or three years may begin to measure treatment intervals in terms of years, not months.  For most conditions treated with awi, an individual will need regular treatments every few months.  However, with proper skin care and regular awi treatments, the etching of facial wrinkles can (in many instances) be nearly eliminated. Therefore, after a year or two of regular treatments,  it is not uncommon for individuals to feel they need follow-up awi treatments only every six months or more. Some even outgrow the need.

Tip #4   Use awi in Conjunction with Dermal Filler Treatments Where Applicable

Excessive or exaggerated muscle movement can diminish the endurance of most of the advanced dermal fillers.  Since awi relaxes excessive muscle movement, it effectively extends the life of most dermal fillers and most liquid face lift procedures.  Awi use has dual importance.  First, the dermal filler lasts longer.  Secondly, it gives the dermal filler more time to stimulate the skin’s own collagen response mechanism for a second layer of enduring results.  In some instances, awi use may not be suggested, depending upon the exact nature of the procedure.  Ask your Dr Young if supplementing your procedure with awi would be beneficial.

Tip #5  Select Dr Young, he is extremely experienced in the Use of Liquid Face Lift Products

An experienced physician will generally have a better understanding of the advanced injection techniques and product combinations that will extend your results.  Extensive experience will also contribute to a physician’s understanding of how unique skin types, physical conditions, levels of skin damage and other factors play into the mix of optimal treatment recommendations.

Are you ready for all your Christmas and New Years Eve events?

Need  a gift idea?

-Gift certificate, makeup, creams, IPL sessions.

How does VOLUM+ work to achieve its results?

According to facial aesthetic expert Dr. Herve Respaldo, ‘an attractive face is characterised by smooth, round contours, high cheekbones, hollow jowls and a thin, well-defined jawline. These features together comprise the “triangle of beauty” or “heart of face”, with its base at the top and summit below.

As we age, facial fat loss, gravity, and loss of the skin’s natural elasticity conspire to reverse this triangle’s composition, leading to a narrower, less youthful forehead and temple area, and a wider, heavier jawline.

Fortunately, VOLUM+ can restore the face’s balance and heart-shaped proportions, revolumising facial hollows and  lost volume and recontouring the cheeks, cheekbones, and nose for a fuller, softer, more youthful appearance. The VOLUM+ helps recapture the facial volume that age and weight loss can diminish. With VOLUM+, an innovative injectable hyaluronic volumiser, you can enjoy a smoother more youthful appearance of your cheeks, cheekbones, and chin.

Enjoy increased confidence with VOLUM+

Perhaps the best indicator of the advantages and benefits of treatment with VOLUM+ is the level to which those who have used it enjoy their results. A clinical study demonstrated that at 6 to 18 months after treatment, all study participants rated their results as positive!

Similarly, the vast majority of study participants indicated that they would recommend treatment with VOLUM+ to others based on their own experience of feeling more attractive, with better self-esteem and greater confidence.

Sample before and after images( post photos are straight after procedure, results will vary)-

The final images 8, 9, 10, are the PRE treatment images, and these show the “sunken” in mid cheeks, and eye bags, which are corrected in the earlier images.

**So who is Volum+ for …. if you are around 40 and above, or have sunken in cheeks/flattened cheeks.

1.Treatment time will take approximately 40 minutes, and the results will be evident instantly, they will improve over the next month,when you will be reviewed again,( first review at one week).

2.Results expected to last up to 18months.

3.Price -depends on  amount of filler required.

So call in now to make an appointment, your nearest clinic, or 1300 46 37 37.

Relax, restore and volumize( VOLUM+)

The best ways to slow facial aging and edit out signs of aging are the three basic tenits-

Relax- using AWI’s, we will endeavour to limit some dynamic wrinkles, and in some cases stop certain areas of movement( we use a graded custom designed scaling to achieve just the right look),

Restore- replace what was missing and adjust various areas, eg. brow heights, and lip volume,

as we age, gravity takes its toll, and the facial tissues descend downward, leading to jowls, deep lines around our nose and mouth, and on our chins. We also lose volume, as the fat pads in our face and cheeks not only fall, they diminish in size. We see a second bag form under the eyes, a diagonal line or depression form from the inner corner of the eye towards the ear, and we see a flattening of the cheeks.

Volumize- finally we can define cheek bones, jawline, and now fill in the midface to really plump up the face.

This is via a wonderful new product, VOLUM+, we will be able to defy gravity and lift your cheeks for up to 18months, the procedure is almost painfree, and will take approximately 40mins.

We have added some before and after pics, to illustrate its effect, these were taken at a training session, they are immediately post procedure, so the result will be even more improved.

So who is Volum+ for …. if you are around 40 and above, or have sunken in cheeks/flattened cheeks.

Think VOLUM+ , think youth.

Call your closest FRESHface Clinic, to make a booking to see how we can slow your aging!

Our Latest offer-

Buy  2 mls of our Advanced Dermal Filler* for only $1200,

that’s a savings of $400!

*Offer for the first 10 patients, and ends on the 27th august 2009,

*Nb. special is only for 2ml, if one ml is bought it is normal(non-discounted price)

* type of dermal filler will depend on areas treated.

So if you are nervous, feel free to schedule a non-pressured appointment,

where all your options are listed,

and explained in clear terms.

We only treat patients who are really ready and understand everything.

So what are the signs of a youthful skin-

-No lines,

-no pigmentation/sun spots i.e even tone,

-full volume

- fresh glow

How can we get this?

On top of being as healthy, I advise all my patients to use mineral makeup.

This is is essentially extremely fine crushed minerals, which you use to “cover” the skin.

The best type of Mineral Makeup is easily answered as one that is all natural and pure. Common Minerals are Mica, Titanium Dioxide, and Zinc Oxide. Dry minerals do not require a preservative, however many brands of Mineral Makeup will have additives for shelf life or fillers to expand the product, and some even add aroma or perfumes to them. Mineral Makeup is made to be bought and worn, so if you are looking for a Mineral Makeup, pure and natural can’t be wrong.

There should be no talc, no preservatives,dyes, fragrances, and ideally have antioxidants.

Advantages of mineral makeup-

-covers without blocking pores

-non-comedogenic

-sun protection

-light and easy to use.

Our brands are-

Jane Iredale available at Clovelly,

and ID Bare Minerals at Castle Hill.

Just by mentioning FRESHface Clinic, you will receive a 10% discount off your mineral makeup!