What is regenerative aesthetic dermatology?
Regenerative aesthetic dermatology enlists the body’s own healing and adaptive responses to achieve healthier and prettier skin. This is mainly achieved via precise skincare and treatments that allow for better delivery of active ingredients into the layers of skin where they can be most effective.
For example: traditional skin care was all about “feel good”creams. The newer approach is based on recent science and is now all about signaling. 95% of skin aging is due to sun damage. It causes the skin to be cluttered with debris from broken down cells. This interferes with the signaling proteins going out from fibroblasts that drive the production of collagen and elastin fibers. The most innovative products use precise combinations of peptides to clean up that debris, growth factors and enzymes to stimulate fresh collagen and elastic tissue and exosomes to direct the traffic for myriads of messaging molecules so they can all do their job.
Other Approaches
Another way to harness the skin’s natural regenerative responses is by using micro-stimulation of the skin via LASERS, RADIOFREQUENCY or ULTRASOUND in order to trigger a reactive revving up of collagen and elastic tissue production.
MICRONEEDLING has evolved to the point where we can now deliver active ingredients more accurately in the skin where they belong.
Agents like RADIESSE and SCULPTRA are called biostimulators because they create a scaffold that stimulates the skin’s own fibroblasts to generate longer lasting collagen and elastin.
PRP (platelet-rich plasma), allows the use of a patient’s own blood to help with healing and inflammation.
We’ve written more extensively about many of these techniques in our post about the Top 5 Most Popular Female Dermatology Treatments.
Guidelines
The tenets for healthy, youthful skin remain the same as for our general health.
- Sleep: Just like the brain, DNA repair enzymes do all of their work during sleep hours
- Diet: Adequate protein intake is crucial to fuel all those generative and reparative mechanisms. Remember, your skin is your largest organ!
- Exercise: Moving boosts circulation and reduces inflammation.
- Sun protection:Recent innovations have made sunscreens so much more efficient as well as pharmacologically cleaner.
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