Appearance of Facial and Neck Wrinkles May Greatly Be Reduced By Bringing Into Use Certain Methods

Facial wrinkles are a great deal of time under our magnifying glass, whereas at the same time you do not pay much attention to our neck. It is recommended to take care of area around our neck the same way and give it the same time you devote to your face, because skin on your neck is very thin and sensitive and requires regular and attentive care. As age progresses, neck wrinkles will form and you cannot expect to completely prevent them from occurring but luckily a lot of preventions exist to lessen neck, cleavage and facial wrinkles by employing specific techniques.
Drink Plenty of Water
Consume a lot of pure water as your skin's primary source to stay healthy is proper hydration. Consuming enough of water means to drink 2 to 2.5 liters of pure water without any kind of supplements.
Avoid Prolonged Exposure to the Sun
If you stay on the sun for a long time, UV rays may damage your skin what may contribute to facial and neck wrinkles, thus always try to wear high sun quality protective creams. You may even hide under the tree sun rays will still break through the leaves and may affect your skin and cause premature aging signs such as already mentioned facial wrinkles.
Sleep On Your Back
Sleeping on your side or stomach cause sleep lines, this can eventually turn into deep permanent facial, cleave or neck wrinkles. Sleeping on your back will prevent forming of wrinkles because nothing is pushing against your face; this position also benefits your entire body.
Eat Healthy
If you don't already, it is time to start eating a lot of nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits, preferably organically grown. You should prepare food yourself, and should be fresh and unprocessed. Unprocessed food is much richer in vitamins, minerals and all other essential ingredients to keep your body healthy.
Stop With Grimacing and Frowning Of Your Eyebrows
Neck wrinkles can a lot of times occur as a result of keeping wrong posture, while grimacing may cause more facial wrinkles to appear. Sometimes even injuries or deformities arise from improper pose. Forehead wrinkles may occur as a result of constant frowning of your eyebrows.
Choose Proper Treating Method
You may as well undergo treating processes such as microdermabrasion. Most outer layer of the skin, which constantly gets damaged from all the external factors, gets removed by already mentioned technique. To achieve permanent removal of facial and neck wrinkles and to reach the outcome you will be pleased with, you should undergo quite few treatments.

By Janja Ferencak

Plastic Surgery Treatments For Lip Wrinkles

I read a recent article that reports that drinking directly from water bottles can cause just as many upper lip wrinkles as smoking. I wouldn't doubt it as any activity that makes your lips pucker, which activates the orbicularis oris muscle which encircles the mouth, can cause wrinkles to appear on the upper lip. The development of such wrinkles is a function of both the activity and how often it is done. Drinking water these days for some people is about as frequent as a regular smoker who does one or two packs per day.

As a general principle, wrinkles form on the face perpendicular to the direction of action of the underlying muscle movement. For example, horizontal forehead wrinkles are the result of their vertically-oriented and moving frontalis muscle which extends from the brows upward into the scalp. Since the mouth's main muscle (like the eyes) is a sphincter or encircling muscle which lies parallel (horizontal) to the upper and lower lip (except at the corners), it is no surprise that the lips (particularly the upper) develops vertical wrinkles in some people. The other factor that highly contributes to lip wrinkles is the thickness of your skin and the size of your lips. (which is interrelated) The thicker your skin, the less likely you will ever develop them. You rarely see lip wrinkles in people with thicker skin such as African-Americans and people of Middle Eastern descents for example. (and they have larger lips to begin with....as their skin is thicker)

Treatment of lip wrinkles is a challenging problem. I tell patients to think of it as improvement as there is no complete cure in most cases. For small and fine lines that are mainly located at the junction of the skin and the lip, an injectable filler can make a nice improvement...provided you find it acceptable to have a larger lip size. (whichever you desire) When the lip wrinkles are deeper and run higher into the upper lip, the concept of skin resurfacing comes into play. This typically means lase resurfacing and the question is how deep to go with how long of a recovery that will be acceptable to the patient. When the lip lines and wrinkles are more severe, I usually use a combination of making the lip bigger with injectable fillers and resurfacing the skin with a laser. This is usually done under local anesthesia in the office unless the patient is having other major facial surgery, such as a facelift, where the procedure would be then performed in the operating room. There is some current debate between the laser techniques of resurfacing or peeling and the use of fractional (fraxel) laser treatments, but there is no hard clinical evidence at this point to say conclusively that fractional laser treatments are better. In the more severe cases, a small amount of Botox to help reduce the amount of muscle movement can also be helpful when done with fillers or laser resurfacing but you must be careful to not use to much lest you make your smile have an unnatural appearance.

Alternative treatments for lip wrinkles through skin modification are currently being evaluated. One method is to combine laser resurfacing with the use of sandpaper (yes I said sandpaper), known as laserbrasion. With laserbrasion, a combination of upper skin removal is done first with the laser and the deeper skin areas are taken down with sandpaper. The concept here is that the use of sandpaper causes less trauma (no heat) and will heal faster without the prolonged redness. And it is just as effective as the laser but safer and with less complications than if one used traditional dermabrasion. The other method is known as percutaneous collagen induction therapy. (PCIT) Like aerating your lawn, making very tiny holes throughout the upper lip with a small wheel lined with microscopic needles cuts into the deepest portions of the skin. As this heals it causes the skin to thicken which helps reduce the amount of visible wrinkling.

Upper lip wrinkles in some women are unavoidable and can be very troubling. Injectable lip fillers, laser resurfacing, and Botox can help but there is no permanent cure. The alternative treatments of fractional laser treatments, laserbrasion, and collagen induction therapy are interesting but it is too early to know if they will offer better results.

By Dr Barry Eppley