Botox, Dysport and Xeomin, placed by a physician led team to soften expression lines without switching them off. Dosed for how your face moves, and reviewed after the result is real.
The aim is a face that reads as rested, not one that reads as treated. Most of the skill is in the dose, and most of the dose is in deciding what to leave alone.
Wrinkle relaxers are a purified protein that tells a muscle to rest. Placed into the muscles that fold the skin, they soften the lines those folds leave behind. The skin itself is not touched. Movement returns gradually over three to four months, and the treatment is repeated when you want it, not on a schedule.
Skin&Co offers wrinkle relaxers in Mississauga inside a dermatology practice, so the person deciding your dose is a physician who has examined your skin. Lines that are already set into the skin, rather than made by movement, need a different answer, and we will tell you so.
What it treats
And a few things they do not. If your concern is not here, the consultation is where we work out what would actually help.
Injectables and FillersThe horizontal lines that show when you raise your brows. The most requested area in Mississauga, and the one most often over treated. We dose to soften, not to freeze.
The vertical lines between the brows, sometimes called the eleven. Softening these changes how rested a face reads more than any other single area.
Fine lines at the outer corners of the eyes. Treated lightly so you still smile with your eyes, which is the point of them.
The diagonal creases across the bridge of the nose when you scrunch. Small dose, quick, often missed.
A few units along the upper lip border to let the lip turn outward slightly. Subtle, temporary, and an honest alternative to filler for some.
Relaxing the jaw muscle to soften a square lower face, and to ease clenching and grinding. A larger dose, so we assess carefully first.
Underarms, palms and soles. A medical use of the same product, and one of the few treatments here that can be partly insurance assisted.
How it works
Four steps, in this order. Nothing is treated until it has been assessed, and nothing is repeated until it has been reviewed.
A physician examines how your face moves before deciding anything. Which muscles are doing the work, which lines are dynamic and which are already set. A good share of first consultations end with less treatment than the patient came in expecting.
Results
Twenty minutes in the chair. A few small raised bumps at the points that settle within the hour. Avoid lying flat or rubbing the area for four hours. Otherwise, a normal day.
Movement in the treated muscles begins to soften. Lines start to ease. This is not the result yet, so do not judge it here.
Full effect. This is what we booked your review for, and the point at which any adjustment is made. Judging earlier leads to over treatment.
Movement returns gradually, not all at once. Come back when you notice it, not before. Repeated treatment over years tends to lengthen the interval slightly.
Before and after
Photographs of our own patients in Mississauga, unretouched and shown in the same light. Results differ between patients and none of these is a promise of your own outcome.
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Forehead and frown lines, at rest and in movement
Lines at the outer eye
When we say no
We do not treat in these situations, and we will say so in the consultation, which you are not charged for.
Questions
You will see the first change at three to five days and the full effect by fourteen. We book your review after the fourteen day mark so we are judging the real result, not a partial one.
Three to four months for most people. It shortens with very expressive faces and lengthens slightly with repeated treatment over years. We do not book you on a fixed cycle. You come back when it has worn off, not before.
Not here. The look people fear comes from dosing every muscle to zero. We dose to soften movement, and we would rather have you back for a top up than send you out over treated.
They are the same class of product with small differences in spread and onset. The physician chooses based on the area and on what has worked for you before. You are welcome to ask for a specific one.
A few seconds of a fine needle per point. Most people describe it as a small pinch. No numbing is needed and there is no downtime. You can drive yourself home.
The effect is temporary, which is one of its virtues. Tell us at the fourteen day review and we adjust the plan. If it was our dosing, the correction is on us.
Also in this room
Dermal FillersHyaluronic acid placed for structure rather than volume.
Collagen StimulatorsRadiesse and Sculptra work by prompting your own collagen rather than adding volume directly.
BelkyraAn injectable that permanently reduces fat under the chin.
Hyperhidrosis TreatmentA medical treatment for excessive sweating of the underarms, palms and soles.Mississauga, Ontario
A consultation is a clinical examination, not a sales appointment. Bring your questions and expect straight answers about what will and will not work, including when the answer is that you do not need us yet.
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