Your face as you get less young

Three part series on how the face ages and surgery free options to prevent progression of visible aging by Dr Jo Turner; Cosmetic Physician Brisbane. Dr Jo has her own business Skin Revision and Blog on skin care and Cosmetic medicine. Skin Revision

As we get less young, and we see visible signs of this in the mirror, it can erode our self confidence, our esteem and how we view the world.

Understanding how skin ages and what can be done to prevent and reverse the progression of visible aging is my work. So when Leigh invited me to contribute to ‘All for Women’ I decided to write a series on just that. Over the next three days I will share some, hopefully interesting, information on visible signs of aging, surgery free treatment options to prevent progression of visible aging and what I consider the best kept secret in Cosmetic Medicine ‘the liquid facelift”.

Visible signs of aging.

Visible signs of aging are the changes you see when you look in the mirror. There are three concepts to think of when looking at the changes that occur to your face as you get less young.

movement… volume… texture…

Movement

Wrinkles appear because of repeated movement principally in the top half of the face. Movement wrinkles or expression lines start to appear in the late 20’s to early 30’s. Frown lines, crows feet, forehead furrows and bunny scrunches from Frowning…squinting…worry… and even laughter.

Repeated folding in specific areas cause defects to develop in deeper layers of skin. When you are young these movement lines spring back. As you get less young these deepen and left untreated eventually become fibrosed and fixed.

Volume

As we get less young we lose collagen, elastin and underlying support for the skin. This results in loss of volume to the face, and like a balloon that slowly deflates, our facial skin starts to wrinkle and sag and deep lines and folds develop.
• nasolabial lines

• jowls

• marionette lines and drooping of the side of the mouth

• lip thinning and lip lines

In The 40’s we see prominent volume loss changes in the mid face with lines and folds developing from the nose to mouth, wrinkles across cheeks and even early jowl formation. By the 50’s we have prominent volume loss, with sagging across the entire face, jowl line and thinning of the lips. From here on our face continues to head south.

Texture

The skin texture and colour changes as you get less young. This is predominantly from unprotected sun exposure.
• pigment spots or age spots appear.

• pores enlarge

• skin becomes rough and leathery

• broken capillaries appear

Texture changes start in late 20’s to early 30’s, by the 40’s many women must wear makeup to hide the colour and texture changes and by the 50’s and 60’s many women will not hide these changes even with makeup.

Now I have thoroughly depressed all of you, the good news:

Surgery free treatments to keep you looking younger

Movement - Muscle relaxing injections treat movement wrinkles to smooth away crow’s feet, frown lines and forehead wrinkles

Volume - Collagen regeneration with the liquid facelift treats volume loss: to tighten sagging, plump or fill out folds and lift jaw line and mouth drooping.
Dermal fillers treat volume loss of the lips to rejuvenate lip thinning and lip lines and plump or fill folds and lines around mid face and mouth.

Texture - Resurfacing techniques - microdermabrasion, IPL, laser resurfacing and cosmesceuticals treat pigmentation and texture changes to improve the quality of your skin.

Tomorrow I will look at why starting early with Cosmetic treatments prevents the progression of aging.

If you are interested in further skin care or information on Cosmetic treatments visit our blog.

Dr Jo Turner

Part 2 Do cosmetic injections keep you looking younger?