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The Arctic Peel Sacramento California

Smoothing out your skin has never been easier with the Erbium MicroLaserPeel. Dr Charles Perry of Sacramento California, services the Folsom, Roseville and El Dorado Hills communities utilizing lasers to reduces wrinkles, brown spots, and tighten the facial, neck, hands, and chest skin. The Arctic Peel is a term used to describe a micro depth of peeling that requires minimal downtime and is relatively less painful than a full laser resurfacing while still giving newness to your skin. Dr Charles Perry utilizes the Zimmer Air Chiller to cool your skin then smoothes the skin with cold laser (Erbium) – hence the name Arctic Peel.

Many patients find this is a convenient way to enhance their appearance in a single setting with minimal downtime and others are adding Profraction laser resurfacing to achieve a deeper level of enhancement with minimal additional downtime. The Profractional Laser resurfacing when added to the MicroLaserPeel or Arctic Peel can help reduce stubborn creases or wrinkles, acne scarring and age spots with a little more effectiveness than the Arctic Peel alone. For some full laser resurfacing is desired to achieve the optimal results while others like the South Beach Peel. (For more about the South Beach Peel ) There are many exciting ways to enhance your natural beauty.

Why Have Plastic Surgery?

The simple answer is to feel better. Plastic Surgery has been available to help people feel better about appearance very tangible way. Originally Plastic Surgeons would be asked to reconstruct people’s noses after they had been removed as a punishment. Recreating a nose and removing a social stigma was a great reason to have plastic surgery. Today plastic surgery has evolved into an art of enhancement. People pursue plastic surgery to remove unwanted stigma of sun damage, old age, tired eyes, sagging breasts and stretched out tummies. Some pursue cosmetic plastic surgery to enhance a feature of their body or face that will allow them to portray their inner-selves in a better light. The reasons are many and diverse as to the why people seek plastic and cosmetic surgery here in Sacramento. However all people universally enjoy presenting themselves in their best light and incongruence with their inner beauty. It is truly exciting to see the improvements in peoples’ lives once they feel better about their appearance. On occasion it is part of a greater transformation process that starts from deep within and eventually comes to the surface through smiles, laughter, on occasion with new clothes, and a new style to compliment their new face or body.
At Chrysalis Cosmetics in Sacramento California we look forward to assisting with your transformation. Whether before a wedding or between a career transition or after children, we are excited to discuss your reason for making a change. No matter how big or small it may be, the changes in your life can be exciting and dramatic. Others may even notice and comment on the new confidence that you exude. Plastic Cosmetic Surgery can be a small part of a bigger awaking inside you.

Sacramento’s SkinTyte Treatments

SkinTyte tightens loose skin through a process of heating the collagen below the dermis. This revolutionary treatment using the Sciton Joule laser platform has helped many patients following liposuction with a small amount of skin laxity however not enough for a full surgery to enhance their appearance through mild tighten of the skin. It seems to work best for those with lighter skin tones and a little subcutaneous adiposity. We have also notice nice improvements around the neck and jowls either before or after facelift procedures. At Chrysalis Cosmetics Dr Charles Perry, a Plastic Surgeon, has observed that when combined with fillers and a Profractional orMicro-Peel the results of the SkinTyte seem to work synergistically to enhance the appearance. In Sacramento Dr Perry usually offers a series of SkinTyte sessions subsequent to other treatments in order to improve the results and maintain the safety of the procedure.

SkinTyte works by cooling the skin surface then pulsing light through the dermis and targeting collagen and pigmented cells as well as water to heat the deep dermis. We know that if we can heat the deep dermis to 40 C we can achieve some remodeling of the skin that both firms and tightens the appearance. It is an exciting time to be thinking about enhancing your appearance.

Sacramento’s South Beach Peel

Across the country people are realizing the amazing benefits of the South Beach Peel. Dr Charles Perry MD, a Sacramento Plastic Surgeon, offers the South Beach Peel for those whom desire minimal down time from their activities and want to address those red and brown pigments and the fine lines. Using a MicroPeel and a Broad Band Light PhotoFacial in combination the skins dyschromias or pigmented spots and irregular texture and fine lines can be improved in a synergistic way. When done at the same setting the effects seem to be better than when done in sequence at different times. The skin enhancement and improvement in appearance has been creating a lot of happy faces around Sacramento.

Plastic Surgery Diets and Weight loss: Go Vegetarian

If you’re confused about how to loose weight, you are not alone. With so many new diet books out such as the South Beach Diet, Atkins Diet, The Zone… Which one should you chose? There are so many fad diets and “new” ways to loose weight. Choose wisely because some may not be good for your overall health. In Sacramento Dr Charles Perry and Chrysalis Cosmetics are available to help you look your best through comprehensive cosmetic plastic surgery procedures, however Dr Perry feels that it requires more than just surgery to look and feeling your best.

One of the most basic and striaght forward ways of being healthy and loosing weight while looking and feeling your very best is is to start by consuming plants instead of animals for your meals. One of the biggest problems we in the western societies face is eating a healthy diet. We eat a diet based upon animal proteins and simple carbohydrates, and like other countries that consume a similar diet we are obese, die from heart disease or cancer. For more detailed information read the China Study. If you can only do one thing eat plants for a month and exercise five hours a week. You’ll be amazed at the increased energy you will have and how much better your body feels. You will also like what you see on the scale as well. Have you ever seen an obese vegetarian?

With plastic surgery it is possible to shape your physic and enhance your appearance significantly and predictably however it is not possible to improve your physical health or loose weight through plastic surgery in any meaningful way. Health is something that you choose everyday. cosmetic plastic surgery may also help to improve your self esteem but it is unlikely to lower your cholesterol or decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke. The best way to loose weight and decease your risk of a western disease (breast, prostate, colon cancers, diabetes, heart disease) is through a eating plant based foods and exercise. A good read on this subject is “The China Study” by Dr Campbell. Not only will you be slimmer if you eat only plant based proteins, you will be healthier, and our environment will also be thanking you. If you like movies view “Food Inc” or read “In Defense of Food” for more information. It is important before having your appearance enhancing procedure that you optimize your size and health.

There are many reasons to look your best. It is important to also feel your best. At Chrysalis Cosmetics in Sacramento California we look forward to helping you with your plastic surgery needs. We believe that life should be beautiful. We believe it is easier to move towards a goal and look forward to assisting you.

Abdominoplasty: New ways of tightening your waist

Abdominoplasty (sometimes referred to as a tummy tuck) is an amazing operation for enhancing the natural beauty of the abdomen and bringing out the beauty of the chest and hips. Once your diet and exercise have been optimized and you have done your best and yet still have a little pouch or loose skin and muscles around your mid section it may be time to consider another way of enhancing your figure. In Sacramento, Dr Charles Perry at Chrysalis Cosmetics uses an internal muscle repair as well as repositioning the skin and liposuction to improve the abdominal contour, waist and hips. This tightening brings the waist in creating those beautiful curves when surrounded by the chest above and the hips below.
Recently Quill developed a barbed suture that has allowed Dr Perry to shorten the operative time and tighten the abdominal muscles without using knots. This has allowed for an even smoother contour of the midline abdominal skin and more refined look. We have been very pleased with this new suture technique and the results it is allowing us to achieve. Besides the Quill suture, Vaser liposuction has allowed us to achieve better skin tightening and to lessen the bruising following the procedure when combined with abdominal waist and back liposuction contouring. The combination of Vaser liposuction with an abdominoplasty will optimize your middle section contour and allow for more beautiful results.
At Chrysalis Cosmetics we also use a pain pump routinely to lessen your need of narcotics following the surgery making you more comfortable and this also allows you to move much sooner and better following your enhancement. It is an exciting time to be thinking about abdominoplasty especially here in Sacramento California near Roseville adn Foslom as well as Stockton, Yuba City and Modesto.

Fractional CO2 versus Profractional Laser Resurfactional Resurfacing in Sacramento

Laser resurfacing is used to remove wrinkles, reduce scaring and brighten your skin. In Sacramento the sun exposure and the great outdoors activity leads to solar elastosis of the skin and loss of the dermal papillae over time. This causes thinning and wrinkles that have been treated successfuly with laser resurfacing. Older generation lasers used to do this in a blanket fashion which took a long time to heal. Newer technologies have allowed lasers to create small little areas of resurfacing which heal much quicker. The small dots or mtzs (Micro Thermal Zones) of tissue injury or heating stimulate the skin to grow new beautiful fresh looking skin. The MTZ heal from the surrounding injured tissue so that you get a smoother, tighter more uniform appearance of the skin. Before fractionated or Profractional laser the whole skin needed to heal from the bottom up which could take up to six months. With fractionated lasers healing can be much quicker while the depth can be similar. With less down time it is easier to fit into your schedule. Certainly a full resurfacing gives a more dramatic result in one session and is still considered the gold standard, however ProFractional treatments can be combined with micropeels and give a great result as well in one session. You can always do more.
ProFractional lasers utilize an erbium laser that is very specific for water at 2940 nm. With this laser you can remove or vaporize a specific amount or depth of tissue giving your skin a beautiful resurfacing. You can also add heat to the columns of tissue or not depending upon what your doctor and you are trying to accomplish. Heat causes the surrounding collagen to contract. These treatments can be added to additional micro peels or non- ablative treatments as well. They can also be repeated if you desire further enhancement.
CO2 fractional lasers utilize CO2 which has a higher wavelength of light in the Infra red spectrum. Like Erbium it also uses water as a chromophore. However it is not as specific so the thermal relaxation time isn’t reached as quickly and the tissues surrounding the MTZ absorb the excess heat. This allows for collagen contraction and again can gives the skin a nice uniform color and texture. The difficulty with the heat for both lasers is that this can cause hyperpigmentation in darker skin types or long term hypopigmentation. Certainly repeat treatments can be done as well.
CO2 has been considered the gold standard for full facial resurfacing in the past. Fractionated CO2 and the ProFractional Erbium Sciton Laser with its ability to deliver prescribed depths of tissue ablation and heat may give your provider a little more control. Remember when choosing a physician for cosmetic needs, it is not the tool that matters but the person using it that makes the difference in the end.