Dr. Ricardo Ruiz in the American Academy of Dermatology.

During their Conference – entitled to prevent aging must combine and customize – Dr. Ricardo Ruiz go on the need to combine treatments according to each patient’s needs and referred to the prevention of facial aging to five levels ”.

Prevention to 5 levels

According to said during his talk, Dr. Ruiz, is required to work at least 3 of these 5 levels to achieve the best results in terms of prevention of facial aging ”.

1 Protection. At this level working procedures or formulas that keep skin protected from damage from external agents. They are basically 3: sunscreens, the Retinoic acid topical antioxidants.

2. Cell turnover. Within this group there are techniques that help renew the skin, superficial lasers and chemical peels.

3. Induction of collagen. They are 3 procedures able to promote the synthesis of collagen: fractional lasers, radiofrequency and inducing substances of collagen, as the calcium hydroxylapatite. The hidroxipatita has a double function; It acts on the one hand as filler, and on the other as inducer of collagen, producing so-called lifting without surgery or liquid facelift. In the query usually recommend this treatment to patients from 50 years ”, assures Doctor Ruiz.

4. Muscle control. Many expression wrinkles are caused by muscle hyperactivity. Botulinum toxin to the dermatologist helps control this depressant action of the facial muscles.

5. Recovery of the lost volume. Facial volume loss is the factor that most ages the expression of the face. The manifestation of this process is mainly influenced by two causes: the loss of fatty tissue and bone resorption (thinning of the bones). To compensate for this loss of volume, and Doctor Ruiz uses hyaluronic acid and calcium hydroxylapatite.

Dr. Ruiz also referred to the need for an assessment, personalized to each patient. This dermatologist must have aesthetic sense, but also common sense to use these techniques for prudent and discreet , he added.

The dermatologist defined this approach custom as suitable both for men and for women. However, he referred to the need to use the techniques differently according to sex. For example, in women changes in the facial bones begin to age 25 while in men they do not begin until age 40. It is important to keep this in mind when injected fillers to compensate for this loss of bone ”, said. He added another example tend not to treat with botox forehead of men because we have proven that the results are not all the natural thing that we would like to ”. When it comes to the upper third also we take into account the shape of the eyebrows not to alter its expression; While the eyebrows of women have gull wing shaped, men’s tend to be straighter and more attached to the upper eyelid, which gives a more masculine look to your face ”.

In addition, during his lecture, the dermatologist presented statistics on the evolution of aesthetic techniques: in USA last year, despite the crisis, the use of acid hyaluronic rose 9%, botox 11% and 36% calcium hydroxylapatite ”said dermatologist. And it gave more details. According to the American Academy of plastic surgeons, in 2000 a plastic surgeon spent 90% of his time working in the operating room while today only 20%. This is because also plastic surgeons perform minimally invasive techniques and today the trend is to undergo less ”, he added.

In conclusion, Dr. Ruiz stressed that with this Protocol is not getting the ideal of beauty, but to feel good to the patient. Being beautiful is to feel beautiful. And doctors we do cosmetic dermatology must know to discover the potential of beauty of each patient to help them to grow old in an elegant and discreet ”.