Surely these are the questions I hear most in my office when a new or new patient wants to undergo an aesthetic medicine treatment. The answer is sometimes difficult to give.
We must keep in mind that each person is different, with different skin characteristics, with different life forms, there are those who take a lot of sun, those who smoke, those who reach 50 without ever having done anything for their face and we have even those who have a faster or slower metabolism, so creating a standard for all or the same answer for all is almost impossible.
This week we start from: When can you see the effect?
Approaching aesthetic medicine as if one were going to a beautician or hairdresser is the biggest mistake a patient can make or the biggest lie a doctor can tell. In my experience when one goes to the aesthetic doctor they usually come out worse than they did, and I give an example, if you are a woman and you arrive in the studio wearing makeup, be prepared to go out without makeup, with the marks of the small pricks, perhaps with some bruises. or perhaps with a red face due to slight irritation after the treatment or perhaps with a completely shiny face as a result of applying some greasy cream / mask.
The only treatment that gives an immediate evident result in medicine are fillers or fillers. Hyaluronic acid fillers or hyaluronic acid fillers give a visible effect as soon as they are injected, but even here the definitive effect will only be seen after one or two weeks because the filler must settle, after the injection there is always a slight swelling of the tissues and in addition to this the hyaluronic acid will recall some water which will also improve the appearance of the skin, so immediate effect and you have to be patient for a more beautiful effect.
Botox. Be patient because first you will suffer from the pricks (there is no other way to apply it), then your bank account will suffer, then days will pass where you will not see anything and finally after 5 or 6 days you will begin to see how your face relaxes and it looks fresher and more rested. But even with botox you will have to wait at least 2 weeks to see a more natural effect and this effect will be the one that will last for months.
Biorevitalization or peeling. When do you see the effect? Maybe you see peeling after 3 or 4 days, allowing that depending on the type of peeling the first few days you could peel and change your skin like a snake, so forget you are gorgeous or gorgeous after a peeling session, at least immediately, but you will see that your skin looks great after a week.
Biorevitalization depends a lot on the type of skin, if your skin is dry and not very compact you will surely see a result after a week or 15 days, you will find yourself with a more hydrated and more elastic skin, but if your skin did not suffer from dryness or it is a beautiful or well-groomed skin, biorevitalization or as many call it, vitamins, will give you almost no visual effect immediately but not even after 2 weeks, but they will help a lot, but a lot to maintain your beautiful skin.
Technologies. In my case, I’m not a doctor who uses the latest technologies for aesthetic medicine treatments a lot, perhaps because my training as a surgeon makes me more manual or, as many patients tell me, more sculptor. However, it is very unlikely that an apparatus will give us immediate results, what we see in Instagram photographs as immediate results are usually occasioned by immediate irritation or inflammation of the tissues that makes them more compact but that after a few minutes passes and everything comes back as it was before.
Technologies that promise a lifting effect such as ultrasound or radiofrequency are based on stimulation of the subcutis to create collagen and our skin needs at least 2 months to create collagen, so be patient to see results.
Technologies that dissolve fat do not work like real liposuction, first they have to damage the fat cells, the adipocytes, so that within a few days these cells break down and the oil they contain must be reabsorbed for our body. after which the skin needs to settle, so be patient to see the results.
Technologies that are based on the use of lasers to remove blemishes or to remove lesions on the skin or to remove stretch marks or scars or to do a facial rejuvenation … initially they will leave you red or red as a pepper and slowly they will go to give you the promised result, but not earlier than 1 week or 2 weeks, so be patient to see results.
Are you disappointed or disappointed? Was I too direct? Maybe yes, but it’s my way of being, I like to clarify these issues and not sell smoke and illusions to my patients.
If your desire is to be gorgeous or gorgeous for the dinner you have tonight, this afternoon go to your hairdresser and your beautician and with makeup and hair you will be the most beautiful or the most beautiful of the evening. If you come to me this afternoon expecting to be wonderful or wonderful tonight…. get ready to break up your evening and stay at home or have thought about it 15 days before, with two pricks 15 days before I would have made you the king or the queen of today’s evening.