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Archives for February 2022

The Do’s and Don’ts of Getting Botox

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Fact: Botox is one of the safest treatments you can get, and a few units can work wonders if you feel like your complexion is in need of a refresh. While the entire process can be done in a matter of minutes, there are a few key things you should and shouldn’t do in the days before and after your appointment.
DO Your Research
Make sure to research your doctor before booking your appointment, and only go to a professional practitioner. While a lot of doctors can theoretically administer the treatment, going to one who is trained in the technique will ensure optimal results and reduce the risk of any complications. At West Dermatology, we pride ourselves in having some of the best board-certified dermatologists in the country so that you get the best results possible.
DO Move the Injected Areas
In the hour following your treatment, try to move the treated area by making pronounced facial expressions. Frown, smile, raise your brows, and make faces to your heart’s content. This allows the Botox to better reach the muscles it needs to target.
DO Schedule a Follow-Up Appointment
Touch base with your doctor about two weeks post-procedure to make sure everything is settling correctly. Because Botox takes about 14 days to take full effect, a follow-up appointment will allow your doctor to determine if more units are needed for a specific area. 
DON’T Apply Pressure to the Area
As tempting as it can be to massage the treated area, avoid applying pressure in the hours after your appointment to prevent having the Botox migrate. 
DON’T Work Out for 24 Hours
Physical activity and extreme heat can increase the chances of bruising or swelling, so make sure to reschedule those workout classes for the day or so following your appointment. 
Follow the above tips, and your radiant complexion will be on full display in no time. If you want more personalized advice, we’re here for you! Feel free to reach out to our board-certified medical professionals today to schedule your consultation and appointment.

Transitioning Your Skincare to Spring

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Spring Skin Is In  

 
Goodbye winter and hello spring! With its warmer air and increased humidity, this time of year reminds us that just as the seasons change, so do our skin care needs. It’s time to get ready for the new season ahead. From switching your moisturizer to upping your SPF, we’ve got all the tips you need for a successful transition.  
 
Switch to a Lighter Moisturizer 
Springtime is all about light, water- based moisturizing. You no longer need those rich, heavy moisturizers that were vital during the dry winter months. Treat yourself instead to something new from our online shop.   
 
Exfoliate  
Slough off winter’s dead, dry, itchy skin with gentle at-home exfoliation this spring. If you want to treat yourself, book one of our in-office treatments like a facial, dermaplaning, or a chemical peel and start the season with fresh, glowing skin.  
 
Up Your SPF  
Prepare your skin to face sunnier days by upping your SPF to 50. Choose a broad spectrum product that will protect you from both UVA (aging) and UVB (burning) rays. Chemical or physical (mineral) sunscreens are both effective. Use a mineral sunscreen on your face if you’re prone to breakouts since mineral sunscreens won’t clog your pores.  
 
Get Down With It 
Bring sunscreen down below your jawline and onto your neck. And, remember to use SPF on all your skin that will be exposed to the light like your ears, shoulders, arms, chest, hands, legs, and feet.   
 
Don’t Rely on Your Foundation’s SPF 
Remember to use a sunscreen that’s separate from the SPF in your foundation. To get the full SPF number promised on the bottle, slather on a thick layer of sunscreen about the size of a quarter. Only after this soaks in, follow up with a thinner layer of foundation. SPF loses its potency as the day wears on, so bonus points if you apply an SPF face powder throughout the day. 
 
Swallow an Antioxidant Pill 
Add to your daily sun protection routine with an antioxidant supplement. ISDIN Photo SUNISDIN is a once-a-day pill that reduces free-radical damage by improving your skin’s ability to fight oxidative stress. It also helps your skin look brighter and more radiant and boosts hydration, firmness, and elasticity. 
 
Spring Clean 
It’s time to toss out those mystery bottles of product and start fresh again. Check the expiration date and toss it if it’s old. If you’re not sure when it expires, it’s best to let it go and buy something fresh and new. This especially applies to sunscreen, which loses its potency with time.  
 
Wash Your Tools  
Spring is the time to wash away the old makeup and grime that accumulated on your sponges, brushes and rollers over the winter. Brushes and sponges can harbor harmful bacteria that hurt your skin care goals. Clean tools = healthy skin. Use a gentle brush cleanser and then let your tools air dry, or you can blow dry them if you’re in a hurry. 
 
Say goodbye to winter and hello to spring with its new set of skin care needs. It’s time to transition your skin care routine to the new season ahead. So, switch to a lighter moisturizer, exfoliate, increase your SPF, use sunscreen all over your body, use a sunscreen that’s separate from the SPF in your foundation, take a sun-protection pill, spring clean, and wash your beauty tools.  
 
Visit us for a skin check and find out how preventative care can help you reach your skin care goals.   

Fall in Love with Our Derm-Grade Products

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This Valentine’s Day, we’re taking our love for our derm-grade products to the next level by highlighting why we always steer our patients toward clinical-grade skincare brands. With products that are able to penetrate deep into the skin’s layers and produce quality results, we choose to have a wide variety of brands at hand to allow us to tailor our suggestions to each individual patients’ needs.
What Is Derm Grade? 
Our derm-grade products (also called medical or clinical-grade) are proven effective. They’ve passed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection through controlled and double-blind trials. This means that the participants and researchers don’t know which product participants are getting until after the trial, so the results are less biased. It’s one of the gold standards in the scientific community for proving a product works.
Regular Products 
Non-derm grade products sold in supermarkets, drug stores, and online are self-regulated by the cosmetic industry. This means they can make wild claims about how good they are with no evidence to back it up. Yikes.
Consumers Lose 
It’s the consumers who lose when they are left experimenting with different products that may or may not work as advertised. Plus, it’s frustrating and expensive to buy a product for a specific condition and then have it not work.
The Advantage of Derm-Grade Skincare Brands 
Derm-grade skincare can penetrate deeper layers of skin. So, when you buy, say, retinol that’s medical-grade, you know the collagen and elastin in your skin is being repaired at the deepest level possible with a topical product.
Are Derm-Grade Products More Expensive 
Yes, and no. While you will pay more for the actual bottle of product, it’s less expensive than having a drawer full of products that you spent good money on but didn’t work for you. With derm-grade products, you know they work because they passed a thorough FDA inspection.
Derm-Grade Products Are a Better Value 
At our clinic, we believe our derm-grade products offer our patients excellent value for many reasons, including that you don’t need to experiment with several different types of routines. Instead, you can save money with:
  • A product that’s specifically matched your needs. (You can always ask your dermatologist for a recommendation, which they’re happy to give).
  • The active ingredients in derm-grade products can be stronger and contain higher levels of ingredients like antioxidants, retinol, and peptides that lead to more noticeable results.
You Only Need a Few 
Just a few of our key derm-grade products are plenty to keep your skin looking its best. We recommend you make sure your serums are derm-grade, especially Vitamin-C serum. If you want to treat a specific problem, like melasma spots, also make sure your products are derm-grade.
We hope you are as in love with our derm-grade skincare products as we are. Ask to see the products on hand at your next annual skin check. If you don’t want to wait, head over to our online shop where we stock the best brands in the business.

Why We’re Passionate About Skin

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West Dermatology is passionate about skin — in case you missed it (ICYMI), and many of us have turned our passion into a career. We enjoy helping our patients care for the largest organ in their body. And we care about saving lives by preventing and treating skin cancer. In addition, we’re passionate about heading off premature aging and also about providing tools and education to our patients about caring for their skin. 
 
Skin is Your Largest Organ 
It’s incredible to think that skin is your largest organ. It protects you from the outside world and literally holds you together. With a job this big, we feel it’s essential to break down the different ways we care for your approximately 8 pounds and 22 square feet of skin. (By the way, your facial skin only accounts for about one square foot of this skin.)  
 
Why We’re Passionate About It 
Some of us are passionate about skin care after seeing it improve a patient’s health or sense of self-worth and confidence. Others became passionate about taking care of your skin because it makes you look and feel great. And a few of us were teens and adults with acne who finally turned things around when we saw a dermatologist and got the medical-grade product or oral medication needed to clear it. Whatever the reason, we are all here because we’re passionate about skin health.  
 
Saving Lives 
Skin cancer has a high survival rate when it’s caught in time. That’s why we’re so passionate about encouraging our patients to come in for their annual skin check-up and doing self-checks too. Early detection saves lives.   
 
Preventing Premature Aging 
We’re passionate about preventing sun damage for two reasons. Number one, it ages your skin prematurely. The sun accounts for more than 80 percent of premature skin aging. This can take a toll on you by making you look older than you feel.  
 
Preventing DNA Damage 
The second reason we’re passionate about preventing sun damage is that the sun’s rays can change your skin’s DNA and cause cancer. This type of damage is not reversible, so we focus on prevention and treatment to help our patients live their healthiest lives.  
 
Providing Tools 
We’re passionate about providing tools and education to our patients on how to care for their skin. Our website, newsletter, and blog are our way to have ongoing communication with our patients about fun and important ways to take care of their skin.   
 
Our Passion 
West Dermatology is passionate about skin care, and many of us have turned our passion into a career. Whether we’re dermatologists, nurses, medical assistants, aestheticians, or front office staff. The one thing we have in common is our passion for skin health.   
 
Join the hundreds of West Dermatology patients who have scheduled their annual skin check-up. And while you’re at it, have a little fun and ask your dermatologist what skincare products they recommend for your skin care routine.