Cosmetic Mythbusters By Dr Christopher Leat
ASIANS AGE BETTER THAN CAUCASIANS Asian races tend to age better than Caucasian races for a few reasons. Firstly their skin is darker and therefore is better protected from sun damage. Secondly they have thicker skin, and lastly they have a wider face shape. This increases their facial volume and means that they suffer less from the facial shape changes
Melasma – What Is It and How Do I Get Rid of It?
WHAT IS MELASMA Melasma is a pigment problem on the face. It causes patches of dark pigmentation often on the forehead, nose, cheeks and top lip. These patches often look like a blotchy uneven coffee or tea coloured stain and may vary from very pale to quite dark. Melasma almost universally only affects females. Melasma is more common in darker
Get Your Jawline Back & Get Selfie Ready!
Does your cheek appear to blend into your neck without a jawline to define it? Do you hate the double chin or the pouch of fat under your neck? Do you dislike the way you look from the side or always take a selfie from above your head whilst you are looking up to get a good angle? If any
Why Your Lateral Cheek Is Important
One of the major areas of volume loss in the face as we age is the lateral cheek – the part at the angle of the jaw and just in front of the ear. We sometimes lose a lot of volume here – from the fat in the cheek and also from the jawbone. This volume loss actually causes a
You’re a patient at Envisage, not a client! Why this matters . . . .
Doctors have patients, not clients. Other businesses and professionals have clients. But what’s in a name? And does it really matter? Well, I think it does, now maybe more than ever. When I started in cosmetic medicine, back in 1995 or so, I always thought of those that I treated as “patients”. Then drug and laser company representatives came in
Chasing the Line
Dermal fillers can be used to treat a lot of problems, and nowadays it is fashionable to use them largely for shape and volume in areas like the cheeks. But they can also be used to treat individual fine lines. Cosmetic Practitioners call this “chasing the line”, because we follow along the line treating it in a series of tiny
What the heck is my DAO?
The DAO stands for Depressor Anguli Oris – it’s Latin for “Pulls Down The Corner of The Mouth” and it is a small muscle that does exactly what its name suggests. The photo of Obama above shows him using his DAO to its fullest! The DAO is important because it contributes to a downturned mouth shape and the “marionette folds”
New treatment for chin fat removal
Almost daily I get asked “Are there any new treatments available for Chin Fat Removal?” Being an honest bloke, I generally answer. “No. Not particularly”. But now there is! If you find yourself looking up to take a selfie because of your chin fat or feel there is just too much volume under your chin, this is the treatment you
EVERYONE’S AN EXPERT
Nowadays in Cosmetic Medicine it appears that everyone is an expert. Look up practitioners on the internet and everyone is a “key opinion leader” a “leader in the field” who has trained widely and who’s “opinions are sought by other doctors and practitioners”. The funny thing is that I have been doing Cosmetic Medicine on the Gold Coast for over
Chin Fat
Many of you would have seen the piece that aired on ACA last night about a new treatment for “Chin Fat”. For those of you that have not it is archived here This is a “new” treatment called Kybella. Kybella is an injectable treatment that contains the active ingredient deoxycholic acid, the body’s natural fat metabolising enzyme. What many do
