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With the holidays behind us it's time to gear up for the New Year - the one time of year when we put pen to paper to outline all our resolutions. While losing weight and saving money may top your list this year, don't forget about your skin. Here are some quick and easy resolutions your skin will love in 2012:

Protect your skin from the sun everyday: Make a commitment to protect your skin from UV damage and wear sunscreen under your makeup or purchase makeup that has at least SPF 15. If you don't know what’s right for your skin type ask your doctor what they recommend. UV damage can cause premature wrinkles and sun spots. By protecting your skin from UV rays you will continue to look more youthful throughout the New Year!

Throw away outdated skincare products: Make-up that hasn't been used in a while and outdated skincare products may be hosting bacteria and can cause breakouts. Open the medicine cabinet and empty your make-up bag. If you haven't touched that skincare product or piece of makeup in a few months it’s time to say goodbye. Your skin will thank you later. 

Sleep without make-up: Not removing your make-up is one of the worst don'ts when it comes to your skincare routine. Makeup clogs pours and can leave your complexion looking dull. Wash, tone and moisturize your skin every night before bed this year. 

Exfoliate: This is the step most people skip as part of their skincare routine. Try exfoliating at least once a week with an at home facial scrub – you will see an immediate difference. If you can make it into the office, try microdermabrasion, a chemical peel or hydrafacial. Peels in particular can take years off your face. 

Consult a trained professional before pursuing aesthetician services (Botox, dermal fillers): Minimally invasive procedures including Botox® and dermal fillers such as Artefill®, Juvederm® or Restylane® continue to grow in popularity.  But not every physician is trained to perform these procedures. Make sure you check the physician's credentials and validate they have extensive experience using the products they have recommended. 

Manage stress: Stress affects your health and over time can cause over-production of oil and inflammation which results in bad skin. Relieve stress this year by taking a walk, going to a yoga class or taking up a hobby. You will stay happier, your health will improve and it will be reflected on the outside.

Louis M. DeJoseph, M.D.

Acne and the scarring that acne causes is a tough problem that we see in many patients here at Premier Image Cosmetic and Laser Surgery.  The first step in treatment is to get the acne under control. In some cases we refer our patients to a dermatologist to get them on a specific care program for their skin.Hormones can play a role in the development of acne and when this is determined to be the cause, we can use hormone replacement for those patients.  In other cases we may put patients on low dose antibiotics. We also carrypharmaceutical grade skin care products that are very effective in treating acne. The important thing is to shut down the active acne.

Once the acne is under control then we begin our treatment of the acne scarring. Scarring comes in many different forms and acne scarring is different than other types of scarring. Acne scars are bound down and depressed. They form as a result of the body's healing process but form with too much collagen in a particular spot. The original acne wound occurred within the dermis which causes the scar to be within the skin, rather than on the surface. This is why it is so difficult to improve.If the scarring is light with angular, well-defined edges and these are referred to as boxcar type of scarring. Then the very severe type of scarring is called ice pick scarring. It looks as though someone has poked holes in the skin.  This is one of the most difficult things we face as plastic surgeons in trying to improve someone’s skin that has this type of scarring.

Traditionally the treatment of choice was dermabrasion where the outer layer of the skin is roughed up with a rotating tool. When the skin healed, smoother skin appeared. It wasn’t the most pleasant procedure and involved a lot of bleeding and a large amount of recovery time was required.

Today, we have fractional CO2 laser resurfacing. In this procedure, little tiny, microscopic holes are drilled into the skin which goes deep into the skin. This procedure puts deep heating into the skin, through the acne scars. When the skin heals it contracts leaving the scars dramatically improved.

Rhinoplasty, or what is commonly referred to as a nose job, is a surgical procedure whose purpose is to correct deformities of the nose.

What constitutes a beautiful nose? Actually a beautiful nose is one that is balanced to the individual's face. What is considered a beautiful nose on one person might not look good on another. Therefore, it is important to choose a surgeon who will listen to your desires and be honest about how it's going to look and function. It takes a very experienced and skillful Rhinoplastic surgeon to perform a beautiful and balanced nose operation correctly and to make it function properly. The board certified surgeons at Premier Image Cosmetic and Laser Surgery, William E. Silver, M.D. and Louis M. DeJoseph, M.D. have years of experience performing Rhinoplasty surgery, and have extensive training in this specialized field. They are well known in the medical community for their work in Rhinoplasty and obtain many of their patients are referrals from other physicians, locally and around the country. Dr. William E. Silver teaches a Rhinoplasty course and he's written chapters on the art of Rhinoplastic surgery for several major textbooks.

The face is not a one-dimensional structure, and there are many different aspects that go into the harmonious appearance of it. Volume can be added to it through check or chin implants, which give a second dimension to the face. This can achieve a rounding of the cheeks or add structure to the lower area of the face.

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As plastic surgeons we’re always talking about face lifting, cheek augmenting, brow lifting, these are all surgical procedures. The one thing that is often not addressed in some of those procedures is the outer covering and that is the realm of resurfacing.

There’s a little history associated with resurfacing the skin. Resurfacing has been around for thousands of years. There is actual historical documentation that Egyptian women used to take pumice stones and just scrub the skin. This was an early form of dermabrasion which is resurfacing of the skin. This is a controlled injury to the skin which forces the skin to heal. You’re almost exercising the skin. When it grows back and heals its smoother, tighter, and the complexion is better.

In modern times we do this several different ways. One of the ways is chemical peeling. We take a light chemical, it exfoliates the skin, and the skin heels itself and looks healthier. Now we can use lasers for this purpose. The most technologically advanced one that we have available here at Premier Image is Fractional CO2 laser resurfacing. We now have a laser procedure that gives you all the benefits of the older style of laser resurfacing without the recovery time.

When we mention CO2 resurfacing to patients they sometimes cringe a little bit because 10 to 15 years ago it was quite a recovery associated with CO2 resurfacing. Now we learned to harness that laser, the power of it, and deliver it in the correct way to the skin. This is called fractional resurfacing. Instead of taking off the whole layer of skin, the laser drills small, tiny microscopic holes in the skin. It leaves normal skin around these little holes. The skin still has to heal but it heals very quickly.

Almost a 100% of patients are back in makeup by 5 to 6 days. That was unheard of from the resurfacing we had as little as 5 or 6 years ago. The results have been fantastic. In fact it has become the gold standard for acne treatment where there was acne scarring on the face and lines on the face. Results are amazing without a lot of recovery time. It can be repeated once every 2 to 3 months.

Dr. Johnny Mao has been chosen for this year’s American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at Premier Image, where he is under the preceptorship of Dr. William Silver and Dr. Louis DeJoseph.  Premier Image Cosmetic and Laser Surgery is extremely proud to take part in this highly competitive program, where only 46 fellows are chosen each year from accredited otolaryngology-head and neck surgery residency programs throughout the country.  Premier Image is the only accredited Atlanta metropolitan area facility, as well as in the entire state of Georgia, to train and mentor other facial plastic surgeons in the art and skills of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery.  The AAFPRS Foundation Fellowship is widely respected by the medical community and represents the finest post-residency fellowship program in the world for the training of facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons.

After completing his undergraduate education at the University of California at Davis, Dr. Mao graduated from the Loma Linda University School of Medicine with his medical degree.  His post-doctoral training began with a general surgery internship at Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University and an otolaryngology-head and neck surgery residency at Wayne State University.  Dr. Mao is board certified and a fully trained otolaryngology-head and neck surgeon.  He was an attending physician and surgeon last year with Fallon Clinic (multispecialty medical group) in Worcester, Massachusetts and performed functional septorhinoplasty, functional blepharoplasty, local head and neck flaps for skin cancer reconstruction, as well as repair of traumatic facial skeleton injury.  Dr. Mao looks forward to his training at Premier Image, and to exploring the Atlanta area.

At the end of June, Dr. Silver traveled to Las Vegas to attend the Vegas Cosmetic Surgery 2011 International Multi-Specialty Symposium. He lectured to hundreds of surgeons from all over the world on his special techniques in Rhinoplasty Etiology, Aesthetic and Functional Considerations. He also had the opportunity to investigate and study all of the newest technological advances now available in cosmetic and aesthetic medicine.

Our Marketing Director, Linda Persall Huber, was also a lecturer at this event. She spoke about new marketing trends in social media, utilization of websites, the importance of YouTube in today's marketing, and successful marketing techniques that have worked well at Premier Image.

Everyone from The Georgia Dermatology Center had a fantastic time in Las Vegas, and are looking forward to sharing their knowledge with their patients!

Making changes to the nose can now be done without performing surgery. Often we will use fillers to achieve desired results. Fillers are now used on multiple areas of the face such as the cheeks, jawline, and lip area and now we can use these to make small but significant changes to the nose. Often we can camoflauge areas of the nose such as a bump on the nose by filling around it to give someone a straighter area. Or we can use it in the tip of the nose to give someone a tip projection or to give the illusion that they had a smaller tip in this area.