The Paradigm Shift in Aesthetics – The Biggest Trend Right Now
What’s new and hot in aesthetic medicine? And has legit good reason to be?
Regenerative aesthetics.
Regenerative aesthetics focuses on stimulating the body's natural healing and rejuvenation processes to restore youthful properties to aging skin and tissues. It's a paradigm shift from traditional cosmetic treatments that primarily focus on volumizers and muscle weakeners, to treatments that encourage the body's own ability to repair and regenerate cells and tissues most especially collagen and elastin.
How does it work?
To harness the ability of the body to rebuild itself, you must first challenge it to do so.
In aesthetic medicine most ‘challenge-based therapies’ involve injury or heat-based protocols such as laser, RF, ultrasound, microneedling etc. These treatments initiate a healing process that leads to collagen and elastin production in the skin. Collagen firms and thickens the skin and elastin provides elasticity and snap back.
The newest regenerative medicine technologies use growth factors and growth initiating mechanisms to stimulate collagen and elastin production.
At ArtMed, we offer Benev Regenerative Complex – Exosomes
Growth Factors:
Peptides (protein building blocks necessary for growth)
Exosomes (growth factors derived from plant or animal sources)
PRP/PRF (growth factors derived from your own blood plasma)
Proprietary growth factors in pharmaceutical skin care for eg. Vivier’s GrenzCine® or Alastin TriHex® Technology
Biostimulatory Fillers:
At ArtMed, we offer Radiesse® Bio-Stimulatory Filler
Sculptra
Biostimulatory dermal fillers use microspheres of calcium in a gel carrier base or poly-lactic acid. For example, when Radiesse® is injected it is spread through tissues forming a ‘net’ of calcium microspheres and the body starts building collagen and elastin around those spheres. Over the course of a few months skin thickens and tightens due to improved elasticity.
The future?
Most growth factors (other than your own PRP/PRF) can only be used topically, but in future they may be able to be injected for added benefit.
The future may also bring personalized medicine into aesthetics. This approach tailors healthcare to an individual's unique characteristics, including their genes, environment, and lifestyle, to optimize prevention and treatment.
