Ageing is a reality and stress only makes you age faster. As
you age, not only your body starts to lose the strength, your looks start to
diminish, wrinkles and lines start to appear around your eyes and mouth. Your
face loses the youthful glow and hyperpigmentation causes dark spots. All these
tell a tale signs of ageing to reveal your real age to the world. They become
apparent as your skin loses the self-healing powers it once had. Your skin is
the largest organ of your body and younger skin has the ability to regenerate
the dead cell and heal the minor scaring and damages. Younger skin is also
capable of fighting the harsh environment. As you age, it also ages, the
muscles under it lose their strength, the skin itself loses the tone and
elasticity, and hyperpigmentation also starts with age. All these factors
related to skin make you look older even if you do not feel that old. This
could be depressing in itself.
In the high profile world with social media bringing in the
social approval, living up to the societal pressure of beauty standards is
getting even tougher. For many men and women looking young and attractive is
important these days. It does not only feels good to long younger than your age
it also boosts your confidence and helps you get better opportunities in your
life. Younger looking people get asked out more, are offered better job
opportunities and are liked better by their acquaintances. A decade ago
celebrities started to enhance their beauty and restore their youthfulness with
the help of surgeons. However many people did not feel comfortable going under
the knife for achieving the younger look. This created the demand for
non-surgical options. Home remedies, facial treatments and maintaining a
healthy lifestyle were helpful but not satisfactory as people wanted
immediately visible results without putting in too much effort and time. This
created the scope for non-surgical skin rejuvenation treatments.
Non-Surgical Skin
Rejuvenation Procedures
Now there is a broad range of non-surgical skin rejuvenation
procedures available. These can be loosely categorised as topical, injectables
and laser treatments.
Topical treatments include medicated creams and chemical
peels. They delive a high concentration of chemicals which trigger regeneration
and healing of the skin. They also supplement your skin with nutrients which
help the production of structural proteins called collagen to improve your skin
condition.
Injectable treatments include mesotherapy, PRP, Botox and
fillers. These treatments are helpful in varying degree and can help in
uplifting and tightening the skin and even reshaping your features. Some can
even improve your skin tone and texture.
Laser treatment was initially used for hair removal but its
selectiveness towards destroying darker pigment melanin inspired its
application in targeted cells with a higher amount of melanin. Therefore
experiments were conducted and it was confirmed if scar tissues and dark spots
are targeted with laser, the cells in the outer layer can be destroyed and
natural healing process than replace them with younger and healthier cells
which matches your natural tone.
All non-surgical skin rejuvenation treatments are
non-invasive to moderately invasive which means they require minimal to no
incisions to be made into your skin. They are a quick fix as you can get the
treatment in 1 to two hour time period and you see immediate visible
improvement. You might need several sessions of some treatment to achieve the
desired goals. There is very little downtime or aftercare involved.
There is a very detailed and informative article about Frequently Asked Questions related to
Non-Surgical Skin Rejuvenation on the website of Pinnacle figures that you
should check out for more information on this topic. Pinnacle figure is an
aesthetic centre supervised by Dr Terence Teoh who received his training in
Singapore. Please do consult him for any treatment you wish to recieve.
