Azul Beauty Podcast #319 (Dr. FLaharty, Liquid Face Lift, Botox & Fillers)

You know, we've been, the last few times that we've done this show, we've talked a lot about surgery and surgical procedures and new techniques and technology.

Let's talk about some of the things in the med spa again and remind everybody about the Azul Liquid Facelift and some of the great things that you're doing here because these are nice little touch-ups because the holidays are just around the corner and things that we can do if we can't get in and do the full facelift or maybe you've already got one scheduled.

But in the meantime, this would be a good thing to remind people.

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think it's something that people don't recognize.

You know, it...

Years ago, prior to, you know, Botox and fillers and many of the new lasers we have that like the IPL lasers that remove reds and browns non-surgically, you know, we had fewer tools to play with.

And so, you know, really when people started to look older, they started thinking about surgery, eyelids or facelifts.

And so it was a little bit more of an all-or-none kind of phenomenon.

I mean, you could do some skin care, and that's been around and been with us a while, but we just didn't have as many non-surgical tools.

When you think about the field now, there's so much we can do non-surgically, and that's where the growth has been in the last 10 years is in these non-surgical procedures.

And what we like to call the liquid facelift, which is a combination of Botox, botulinum toxin products, and fillers to rejuvenate the face.

And again, that was not available prior to, you know, the 90s.

And now, of course, is very much a mainstream procedure that is growing.

The reason being, it can address so many of the aging changes.

So I think it's probably a good place to start is how do we age? And, you know, and then we can talk about where this comes into play in terms of the various treatment options in terms of facial rejuvenation.

But You know, much of facial aging is volume loss.

We lose fat from our face with age.

The bones resorb as well, and the muscles shrink as well.

So all that leads to what we call that more gaunt, hollow, deflated or deflation appearance of the face.

And it's interesting, until we had modern fillers or until fat augmentation became more mainstream, you know, most of the surgical procedures were lifting and tightening.

And of course, they worked, and that makes a big difference.

A lot of it is stretching and laxity of the tissue, but you're missing out on that third dimension, which is volumizing.

If the face is shrinking, you're losing fat, the bones are resorbing, it's getting thinner and thinner.

tightening the soft tissues over that shrinking frame does make the face look tighter, smoother, better, but it isn't as thorough a rejuvenation as restoring volume.