Improving physical appearance, one of the most common desires of men and women today, does not necessarily imply going through the surgery room. However, marketing has abused concepts as “non-invasive” or “minimally invasive” in promoting certain esthetic techniques, and has caused confusion in many people who think that anyone who performs these procedures does not need a medical license.
“Many people are confused and even enters into treatments with people who are not qualified,” says Franklin Peña, plastic surgeon of the Centro de Cirugía Plástica Espaillat Guerra.
The also specialist from the Clinica de Medicina Familiar, of San Pedro de Macoris, notes that the procedures like the application of Injectable Dermal Fillers (BTX) or hyaluronic acid are less invasive than surgery, but they are still invasive.
Warning “It’s not a surgery but, as a product is being infiltrated into the body, it’s already invasive,” clears up Peña. “Putting someone an injection is an invasive procedure. What is non-invasive? Putting on cream. ”
Therefore, although the risks are minimal compared to an operation, the application of Injectable Dermal Fillers (BTX) or of hyaluronic acid can only be performed by plastic surgeons or dermatologists because, as Peña warns, you have to know facial anatomy and muscles of the face.
COSMETIC PROCEDURES
Within the plastic and cosmetic surgery, Dr. Franklin Peña remembers, there are surgical procedures (surgeries) and cosmetics.
Among the cosmetic procedures are injecting Injectable Dermal Fillers (BTX) and hyaluronic acid, dermabrasion, laser and chemical peels. From that list only the dermabrasion, laser and chemical peels are noninvasive.
READY TO PLAN YOUR SURGERY?
Cosmetic procedures to improve the image. Injectable Dermal Fillers (BTX) is the product most used in the world to eliminate wrinkles. It is injected into fine lines and frown lines, crow’s feet, the forehead and eyebrows, and produces a partial paralysis of the muscles, giving the face a more youthful appearance.
For deep grooves like those presented in the nasolabial area, hyaluronic acid, which is a filler product is used.
“These are, according to the plastic surgeon Franklin Peña- the only two products which are studied and that over time have proven to be safe.”
Besides, you can use the same fat of the patient as filling material. In this case, however, it no longer would be a fast and simple procedure.
Using fat from the patient involves investing at least half an hour to get it from the abdomen using local anesthesia, prepare it and then place it as if it were a filler, the plastic surgeon explains.
The threads. The expert ensures that virtually no plastic surgeon uses threads, very popular method in years passed, to stretch and rejuvenate facial expressions, “because they have proven to be ineffective.”
The threads, he warns, may have the desired effect for a few months, but produce in some patients fibrosis difficult to correct.
“Because its use is not safe it is advisable not to use it either in the the face or gluteus,” advises Peña.
LIFTING TO STRETCH THE FACE
plastic surgeon Franklin Peña indicates the lifting as the face stretching technique most effective and with results tested for over 50 years.
“When a patient is between 30 and 45 you can perform a palliative treatment with Injectable Dermal Fillers (BTX), but when you have so much flaccidity in the tissues of the face, you can’t correct it with a thread, but the excess skin must be removed and the flaccidity corrected”, Pena said.
However, this procedure is not of the least invasive: you can’t make it in a consultation the same as the application of fillers.