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Plastic Surgery Blog Chicago

What are the six ways to make your skin radiant and glowing?

Cleanse your skin with a good gentle cleanser.  Here at CAPS, we offer medical grade skincare of Jan Marini. Jan Marini continues to be award winning, innovative, and committed to providing their customers with the best results to improve their skin complexion. Use a good moisturizing lotion with peptides and growth factor.  We offer Alastin […]

Why do I need to use Alastin Regenerating Skin Nectar before and after the 1540 Non-Ablative Fractional Laser?

There are many reasons to use the Alastin Regenerating Skin Nectar before and after the 1540 Non-Ablative Fractional Laser. By using the Regenerating Skin Nectar two weeks before a laser procedure, you can precondition and pretreat your skin to clear old damaged collagen and elastin due to sun exposure and aging. By clearing out the […]

Ultherapy Skin Tightening Treatment is the Perfect Treatment for the Chicago Summer

Ultherapy is an ultrasound guided treatment that is used to treat mild to moderate skin laxity and wrinkles around the jowls, under the chin, around the eyes, crow’s feet and above the forehead for a brow lift. Ultherapy works by administering ultrasound energy to specific depths of skin with precise ultrasound guidance, which causes tissue […]

6 Cool Facts about the new Coolsculpting Cooladvantage Petite™ applicator – Perfect for Arm Fat Reduction!

1. The NEW CoolAdvantage Petite™ applicator is the ONLY upper arm non-invasive fat reduction technology that has been FDA approved. 2. This applicator is new and smaller which is perfect to treat upper arm fat, back, bra fat and banana roll. 3. Coolsculpting uses cryolipolysis which is cold induced apoptotic fat cell death. The Coolsculpting […]

6 Reasons Why We Love Ultherapy for Skin Tightening

If you have mild to moderate forehead, facial or neck or decolletage laxity consider Ultherapy, a non-invasive procedure that can improve skin quality and tighten skin. Ultherapy deposits focused energy at precise targeted tissue beneath the skin at the optimal temperature to cause collagen regeneration. This energy triggers a natural response of collagen production in […]

Cellfina

It’s Summer and I would love to feel confident in white pants, shorts and swimsuits but I don’t. My thighs and buttock have dimples that I’ve had forever. Nothing has worked! Can you advise? “I am proud to be one of two Board Certified Plastic Surgeons in the state of Illinois, offering Cellfina, a breakthrough […]

Introducing Cellfina

Q: Is there anything I could do to eliminate the cellulite that looks like orange peel dimpling that I have? I dread wearing swimsuits and shorts so much. A: You describe a common aesthetic issue for females. As many as 85 to 98% of women have some form of cellulite! Now there is a safe, […]

Casas Plastic Surgery offers Non Surgical Face and Neck Tissue Tightening with Ulthera

Q. My face and neck skin is starting to sag and wrinkle. I don’t want jowls or a turkey neck as I age! Will Ulthera help to tighten my skin without surgery? A. Ultherapy is a non surgical, reliable and safe solution used to tighten the forehead, face and neck skin that is beginning to […]

I’ve heard Miradry eliminates underarm sweat and odor and 60% armpit hair. Don’t I need to sweat?

MiraDry is the only non-invasive, FDA cleared aesthetic treatment that safely removes underarm sweat and odor glands and 60% underarm hair growth.  It’s a quick in-office procedure that provides a solution for underarm sweat and odor regardless of the haircolor. You are born with approximately 2 million sweat glands throughout your body. Your underarms only […]

What is Restylane Lyft? Does it lift sagging skin?

Restylane Lyft is an injectable hyaluronic acid gel used to correct volume loss and treat wrinkles in the face. Due to its larger particle size, it is injected along the periosteum and deep dermis to lift sagging tissue. As we age, sagging occurs (naturally) due to gravity and genetic disposition. Restylane Lyft formally known as […]

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