My patients will usually hold up a hand held mirror, and yes, we have high technology, computer printouts, but in many of the cases it all comes down to what each of us sees in the mirror every day at our own reflection. We first start talking about form. And form to me begins beneath the skin, with what happens over time with the effects of gravity. And one of the most overlooked things is how facial fatty tissue changes beneath the skin as we get older. Yes, we're going to talk about lasers, but first we should talk a little bit about form.
Form means the heaviness under the chin, cheeks and jowls.
So often, my patients will say, I'm beginning to look just like my mom used to look. Form also means where we lose fatty tissue, the hollow in the cheeks, hollowing at the edges of the mouth. And when we talk about a thinning of the upper lip, the lip doesn't really become thin, what we've naturally lost is almost a luscious fatty fullness of the lip, and we all know what that means. This is done not with needles, but with small sized instruments called cannulae. This is not a machine, but is syringe assisted.