Aesthetic medicine
Treatments matched to the layer of skin causing the problem
Facial aging happens at several depths at once. Muscle activity creases the skin from beneath, collagen and elastin thin out within the dermis, and the surface itself dulls and roughens. No single treatment reaches all three. The same logic applies to hair: follicles sit in the dermis, and reaching them takes a different tool than resurfacing the skin above them. The useful question isn't which treatment is best, but which layer is actually driving what bothers you.
All procedures are performed in office by our Medical Doctor. Every patient first undergoes a medical exam to confirm candidacy and rule out conditions that would be a contraindication.
How a visit works
A medical exam comes before any aesthetic procedure
This is not the standard at every practice offering these treatments, and it is the main reason to have them done here rather than somewhere cheaper.
Consult
We talk through what you'd like to change, what you've had done before, and what a realistic result looks like for your skin and your face.
Medical exam
Every patient undergoes an exam to confirm candidacy and rule out any condition that would be a contraindication for the procedure that interests them.
Treatment
All procedures are performed in office by our Medical Doctor — not delegated to a technician working under remote supervision.
Follow up
We review the result once it has settled and adjust the plan for next time. Aesthetic work improves with iteration, not with guessing.
Understanding the difference
Two different kinds of line, needing two different tools
Patients often arrive asking for a specific treatment when what they actually want is a specific result. The useful distinction is whether the thing bothering you appears when your face moves, or whether it's there when your face is completely at rest.
Lines your muscles make
dynamic linesFrown lines, forehead lines, and crow's feet form because the muscles beneath the skin contract thousands of times a day — every time you raise your brows, squint, frown, or smile. Over years, the skin above them furrows along those fold lines. Relaxing the muscle is what addresses these.
Changes in the skin itself
texture, tone, and thinningDullness, rough texture, enlarged pores, and crepey thinning come from declining collagen and elastin in the dermis and a slowing rate of cell turnover at the surface. Muscle relaxation does nothing for these. They need the skin stimulated to rebuild.
Services
What we offer
These are frequently combined. Relaxing the muscle and improving the quality of the skin above it address different problems, and doing both produces a more complete result than either alone.
Regenerative facial
PRP and allograft facials
This specialized facial combines three steps: microdermabrasion to resurface the outer layer, subcutaneous injection into the treated area, and topical application to the skin afterward.
It can be performed with platelet-rich plasma or with umbilical allograft tissue. PRP is extracted from the serum portion of your own blood and is rich in naturally occurring growth factors — the driving force behind cellular replication and regeneration. Applying and injecting that concentrate enhances blood flow and oxygen delivery to the tissue, stimulates cellular turnover, and boosts the synthesis of collagen and elastin fibers.
Umbilical allograft is the alternative. Sourced from screened donors through accredited tissue banks, it carries growth factors, cytokines, and hyaluronic acid without requiring a blood draw or the processing time that goes with one. It's often the better choice for patients whose own platelet yield is likely to be lower, and for anyone who would rather skip the needle in their arm.
Either way, this is the same biology behind our regenerative joint therapies, directed at the dermis instead of a joint.
| Source | Your own blood (PRP), or screened umbilical allograft tissue |
|---|---|
| Steps | Microdermabrasion, subcutaneous injection, topical application |
| Addresses | Skin texture, tone, dullness, and the quality of the skin itself |
| How it works | Growth factors stimulate cell turnover and collagen and elastin synthesis |
| Depth | Surface and dermis |
For lines made by movement
Botox and Dysport
Botox and Dysport are primarily used by patients seeking to correct fine lines, wrinkles, and crow's feet. The frequent contraction of facial muscles that happens as we raise or shift our brows, squint, frown, and even smile causes the skin to furrow, producing lines and wrinkles over time.
Both products temporarily reduce the activity of the muscles beneath the skin, which softens the appearance of those facial lines. The effect is not permanent, which is a feature rather than a limitation — it allows the result to be adjusted at each treatment rather than committing you to an outcome.
Placement matters more than product. Which muscles are treated, and how much is used in each, is what separates a rested look from a frozen one.
| Addresses | Fine lines, wrinkles, and crow's feet caused by muscle movement |
|---|---|
| How it works | Temporarily reduces activity of the muscles beneath the skin |
| Common areas | Forehead, between the brows, and around the eyes |
| Duration | Temporary; repeat treatment maintains the result |
| Depth | The muscle layer beneath the skin |
Hair restoration
Microneedling with PRP or allograft tissue for thinning hair
Pattern hair loss doesn't happen all at once. Follicles shrink gradually over years — the shaft grows thinner and shorter with each cycle, the growth phase shortens, and eventually the follicle stops producing a visible hair at all. That slow progression is the reason timing matters so much with this treatment.
How the treatment works
Microneedling creates thousands of controlled micro-channels in the scalp. That does two things at once: it triggers the body's own wound-healing response around the follicles, and it opens a direct path for what we apply next to reach the depth where follicles actually live.
Through those channels we deliver platelet-rich plasma drawn from your own blood, or umbilical allograft tissue from a screened, accredited donor bank. Both carry concentrated growth factors. The aim is to increase blood supply around the follicle, stimulate the cells at its base, and encourage follicles to spend longer in their active growth phase rather than cycling into rest prematurely.
Treatment is a series rather than a single visit, spaced out over several months, with periodic maintenance afterward. Hair grows slowly, so change is judged over months, not weeks.
PRP requires a blood draw on the day of treatment. Allograft doesn't, which makes it a practical alternative for patients who would rather avoid one or whose own platelet yield is likely to be lower.
Timing is the single biggest factor. These treatments work on follicles that are struggling but still alive — thinning areas, widening parts, a receding hairline that still has fine hair in it. Where the follicle has been dormant for years and the scalp is smooth, there is nothing left to stimulate and results are limited. If you're noticing thinning now, that is the point at which to be evaluated, not after you've waited to see whether it gets worse.
Why this matters
Injectables are medical procedures, and we treat them that way
Aesthetic injectables have become widely available in settings that vary considerably in medical oversight. The products are the same. What differs is who assesses you beforehand, who holds the syringe, and who is present if something doesn't go as planned.
At our practice, every patient undergoes a medical exam first, specifically to confirm you are a candidate and to rule out any condition that would make a procedure inadvisable for you. All procedures are performed in office by our Medical Doctor. That is also why our aesthetic patients often end up discussing hormones, metabolic health, or sleep — the things that show up in your face frequently originate somewhere else, and we're already set up to look.
We will also tell you when a treatment isn't likely to give you what you're picturing. That conversation is more useful than a procedure that disappoints.
Aesthetic procedures are performed only after a medical examination confirming candidacy, and are not appropriate for every patient. All procedures carry risks, including bruising, swelling, infection, asymmetry, and unintended effects on nearby muscles, which will be reviewed with you beforehand. Botox and Dysport are registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. Platelet-rich plasma and umbilical allograft products are not FDA-approved for aesthetic or hair restoration indications; allograft products are regulated as human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products and are sourced from accredited tissue banks. Hair restoration outcomes depend heavily on the stage of hair loss and cannot be predicted in advance. Individual results vary, results from neuromodulators are temporary, and no specific outcome can be guaranteed. This page is for educational purposes and is not a substitute for a medical evaluation or for discussing your personal health history with a licensed provider.