Getting an invasive cosmetic procedure to address your hair loss can be a challenging, difficult experience. Your procedure may be uncomfortable or expensive, and you might have to stay at home during a long recovery period. Fortunately, at Vibrant Dermatology & Skinbar MD in Dedham, Massachusetts, we can use a variety of non-surgical hair regrowth treatments to address your hair loss.

If you live near the Boston, Dedham, Milton, Westwood, Norwood, Canton, Sharon, Foxboro, Walpole, or Needham areas, read on to learn more about the amazing benefits of our hair loss treatments.

Can You Regrow Hair Without Surgery?

You don’t have to receive a long, invasive procedure to restore your lost hair and regain your confidence. There are a wide variety of non-invasive and minimally invasive treatments that are very efficient and effective.

PRP Therapy

Platelet-rich plasma therapy, also called PRP therapy, is one of the most well-known non-surgical hair regrowth techniques. This minimally invasive treatment uses the platelets in your blood to help your body regrow your lost hair. After you have completed three PRP treatments, we may advise you to receive follow-up sessions every six months or so.

Laser Light Treatments

Laser light treatments are another type of non-surgical hair regrowth technique. This method uses gentle laser energy to stimulate your hair follicles and encourage regrowth.

Oral and Topical Medications

Applying topical medications to your scalp can be a good way to address your hair loss in a completely non-invasive manner. For example, you can apply a medication called Rogaine to your scalp every day. This medication will stimulate your hair growth and minimize bald patches on your scalp. There are also oral medications that can slow your hair loss and cause you to grow new hair.

Cortisone Shots

Cortisone shots can be used to treat hair loss that is caused by alopecia areata and other medical conditions. These shots will improve your hair loss by reducing inflammation under your scalp. During this type of treatment, we will gently inject cortisone into the areas where you are experiencing hair loss.

Who Is an Ideal Candidate for These Non-Surgical Hair Regrowth Treatments?

To treat your hair loss, we will need to determine why you are experiencing this issue. We can diagnose you by looking at your scalp and hair, ordering blood tests, and using other diagnostic methods. For example, we might pull on your hair to see how it reacts to this pressure. Further, we can use specialized medical equipment to determine whether your hair shafts are healthy.

Once we have determined the cause of your hair loss, we will choose a non-invasive or minimally invasive hair loss treatment for you. We can also design a personalized plan that uses a variety of methods to restore your hair.

Regrow Your Hair

There’s no need to go through a complicated, invasive procedure to treat your bald patches or thinning hair. Laser light treatments, medications, PRP therapy, and other non-surgical hair regrowth techniques can restore your hair and reduce the size of your bald patches. Contact us today to book your consultation! 

Over the last couple of years, Botox and dermal fillers have become an increasingly popular way to eliminate wrinkles, plump lips, and add volume to hollow cheeks. At Vibrant Dermatology & Skinbar MD in Dedham, Massachusetts, we provide these quick and comfortable injectable treatments to people living in and around the Boston, Dedham, Westwood, Norwood, Canton, Sharon, Milton, Walpole, Foxboro, and Needham areas.

Is It Better to Get Botox or Fillers?

Each of our injectable treatments is designed to address a different type of cosmetic issue or concern. As a result, your ideal treatment plan will depend on the aesthetic issues that you are trying to address.

Neuromodulators

Botox is a neuromodulator that is designed to treat wrinkles that are caused by your repeated facial movements. These wrinkles include forehead lines, crow’s feet, and lines on your neck. We can also use this product to improve the appearance of dimples in your chin, a gummy smile, or drooping eyebrows.

Fillers

Dermal fillers like Juvederm and Restylane can address volume loss in the middle of your face and improve the size of your lips. These products can also be used to soften lines and wrinkles that develop around the bottom portion of your face. For example, many of these injectables are great at minimizing smile and marionette lines.

Can I Receive My Injectable Treatment During My Lunch Break?

Injectables are a great treatment to receive during your lunch break or another short break in your day. If you are receiving Botox, your appointment is likely to take about ten to twenty-five minutes. To administer your injections, we will use a very small needle that will prevent you from feeling any fear or discomfort during your appointment.

If you are receiving a product like Juvederm or Restylane, your treatment session will take about ten minutes to one hour. Like neuromodulators, these products are designed to be administered in a safe, comfortable fashion. If you are nervous about needles, we can help you relax by performing your treatment using a thin tube called a cannula.

Who Is a Good Candidate for These Injectables?

If you are struggling to minimize your wrinkles or restore volume to your face, these injectable products are likely to be an ideal solution for you. Further, if you are a young adult who wants to maintain a youthful appearance, you can use these products to prevent these issues from developing.

These injectables are designed to temporarily improve the appearance of healthy adults. People with certain medical conditions, such as ALS or myasthenia gravis, are not eligible to use neuromodulators. Similarly, products like Restylane and Juvederm are not suitable for people who have allergies to the ingredients contained in these products.

Turn Back the Clock

It’s obvious why more and more people are turning to Botox and dermal fillers to enhance their skin and achieve a fresh, youthful appearance. These products can be administered in as little as ten minutes, and they will create significant improvements in the appearance of wrinkles and other aesthetic issues. Give us a call today to learn more!

You probably already know that injectable products can smooth your wrinkles and help you look younger and fresher. However, you might not have heard about the many medical uses for Botox. At Vibrant Dermatology & Skinbar MD, located in Dedham, Massachusetts, and serving the Boston, Dedham, Westwood, Norwood, Canton, Sharon, Milton, Walpole, Foxboro, and Needham areas, we can use this injectable product to address excessive sweating, migraines, and other medical issues.

What Medical Conditions Is Botox Used For?

Chronic Migraines

Chronic migraines can cause you to miss work, struggle to care for your children, and have difficulty engaging in hobbies and activities that you used to enjoy. Fortunately, the FDA has approved this injectable product for the purpose of improving chronic migraines that cause you to have headaches on fifteen or more days per month.

This treatment is a great way to reduce your headaches and enjoy a higher number of pain-free days. Medical professionals have provided more than three million of these injectable treatments to people who suffer from chronic migraines.

Excessive Sweating

Excessive sweating, also known as hyperhidrosis, is a condition that occurs when you develop problems with sweating on your back, hands, armpits, and other locations on your body. When this condition has no known cause, it is known as primary focal hyperhidrosis or idiopathic hyperhidrosis. If this condition is associated with menopause, diabetes, gout, or other medical issues, it is called secondary generalized hyperhidrosis.

This product is a great way to reduce hyperhidrosis. When we inject your target area with this product, your sweating is likely to improve for about six months. We can use these injections to reduce sweating on your hands, feet, underarms, face, and scalp.

Crossed Eyes

One of the medical uses for Botox is treating crossed eyes. This condition, also known as strabismus, occurs when each of your eyes looks in different directions. This issue can cause you to lose your depth perception or develop double vision. Injecting this product into your eye muscles can be a good way to alter the behavior of your eyes and correct your vision.

Abnormal Muscle Spasms

The medical uses for Botox also include improving abnormal muscle spasms in your face and neck. For example, cervical dystonia is a condition that occurs when the muscles in your neck involuntarily contract. These movements can cause your head to twist, turn, and move forward and backward.

This injectable product can be used to reduce these involuntary muscle movements and improve your quality of life. The results of your injections are likely to last for a couple of months.

Improve Your Health

Eliminating wrinkles and smoothing your skin isn’t the only way that this cosmetic treatment can enhance your life. This injectable treatment can treat frustrating medical conditions in a minimally invasive way. These medical uses for Botox include reducing sweating, improving chronic migraines, and treating crossed eyes.  Give us a call today to see if Botox is right for you!

What Are Injectable Fillers?

What Provides the Most Natural Look?

Our office uses five different injectable serums to restore skin to a state of plump and hydrated excellence. The one known to deliver the most natural results comes down to personal preference; they are all made from the same high-quality, effective ingredients – usually hyaluronic acid unless otherwise noted.

Juvederm

This injectable is highly-concentrated and provides smooth results when used to either reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles or fill areas of lost volume. It can also plump lips to better enhance your entire appearance. Juvederm is more ideally suited than some other injectables at amplifying areas like the cheeks and brow.

Restylane

Equally versatile, Restylane can be used to plump lips, add volume to under-eye hollows, and erase fine lines. It is very comparable to Juvederm, and treatment effects tend to be similar. The one offset maybe this: some patients say Restylane delivers longer-lasting results. Any differences are minimal, however, as both retain your natural facial movements and expressions.

Belotero

A lightweight treatment intended to fill-in wrinkles and creases on almost any part of the face. Areas around the nose, mouth, lips, and chin can benefit from evenly-distributed plumping without unsightly lumps.

Sculptra

By delivering gradual results, and because it is made of poly-L-lactic acid, Sculptra improves volume as well as skin tone and texture. It does this not by filling empty spaces left by a loss of fatty tissues and proteins but by stimulating the body’s own collagen production. As collagen increases, the overall health of your skin improves.

Radiesse

This injectable also prompts collagen production to deliver natural and long-lasting results. It contains microspheres of calcium hydroxyapatite within a carrier gel and instantly restores a youthful appearance. It is more ideal for smoothing wrinkles than plumping areas where volume is lost.

The Choice Is Yours

Depending on what your goal is – to increase volume, reduce fine lines and wrinkles, or both – we can help choose the therapy that’s right for you. In addition, we can ensure you have the most natural looking fillers possible, all while helping you look and feel younger. Give us a call to book your consultation today!

If you have rosacea, acne scars, wrinkles, and other skin conditions, you don’t need to spend your time and money on skincare techniques that don’t work. Instead, you can fix these issues with RF microneedling. At Vibrant Dermatology & Skinbar MD, located in Dedham, Massachusetts, we provide this treatment to people living in the communities of Boston, Dedham, Westwood, Norwood, Canton, Sharon, Milton, Walpole, Foxboro, and Needham.

Does Microneedling With RF Really Work?

RF microneedling is a cosmetic treatment that uses state-of-the-art techniques to address rosacea, fine lines, stretch marks, wrinkles, and other skin issues. This minimally invasive treatment is extremely effective. This treatment’s combination of traditional microneedling methods with radiofrequency energy will affect your deeper tissues and create dramatic changes in your skin.

How It Works

During your microneedling treatment, we will use a specialized needling device to make very small injuries in your skin. The tiny wounds in your skin will disrupt your acne and surgical scars. As we create these injuries, we will also transmit radiofrequency energy into your body. This energy will gently heat up the dermal tissues in your target area.

These techniques are an extremely effective way to enhance the amount of collagen in your dermal tissues. This fibrous protein plays an integral role in supporting and firming the structure of your skin. As your body creates more collagen fibers, the skin in your target area will become smoother and brighter.

What Should I Expect During the RF Microneedling Process?

You’ll receive your RF microneedling treatment during a quick visit to our office. To help your skin respond to this treatment, we will provide you with some skincare rules to follow before your treatment session. For instance, we will ask you not to use topical retinoids like Retin-A for a few days.

During your treatment, we will clean your skin and gently move our microneedling device over your target area. As we bring the device across the surface of your body, it will send radiofrequency energy into your tissues. We will carefully monitor the flow of this energy as we perform your treatment.

Who Is This Treatment Right For?

Microneedling works on all skin types. Further, this treatment can be customized to address scarring, discoloration, stretch marks, and many other cosmetic issues. As a result, you will probably benefit from this cosmetic treatment.

That said, active infections in your skin and other health issues can prevent you from using RF microneedling. We will discuss any health issues that you have and assess the condition of your skin before you receive this treatment. This information will allow us to determine whether you are eligible for this skincare technique.

Change Your Look

Instead of spending your money on ineffective products and treatments, you should treat your rosacea, scars, wrinkles, and other skin problems with RF microneedling. This treatment is a fantastic way to address these issues and achieve a glowing, attractive complexion. Give us a call to schedule your consultation!

If you’ve gone through pregnancy or experienced growth spurts and fluctuations in your weight, you might have stretch marks on your stomach, thighs, or buttocks. Although these marks are harmless, you might not like the way that they look. At Vibrant Dermatology & Skinbar MD in Dedham, Massachusetts, we can minimize these marks with advanced laser technology.

We provide these treatments to people living in and around the Boston, Dedham, Norwood, Westwood, Milton, Canton, Walpole, Sharon, Foxboro, and Needham areas.

Can You Use a Laser to Remove Stretch Marks?

Stretch marks, which scientists call striae, are lines that look lighter or darker than the rest of your skin. These marks are likely to develop when you experience a period of rapid growth. These marks form as your skin stretches and the connective fibers in your skin weaken. Laser treatments are a fantastic way to fade these imperfections and obtain attractive, blemish-free skin.

During your appointment, we will improve the appearance of your skin by using a laser to send energy into your body. This energy will give you smoother, healthier-looking skin. As your skin responds to this energy, the appearance of your stretch marks will be minimized.

How Many Treatments Will I Receive?

When you come to our office for your initial consultation, we will take a look at your stretch marks and discuss the aesthetic outcome that you would like to achieve. Once we’ve examined your body, we’ll let you know how many cosmetic treatments you will need. Although your schedule will be unique, it’s common to receive multiple treatment sessions.

Our treatments are able to minimize your imperfections without harming your surrounding tissues. As a result, you’ll have minimal or no downtime after we’ve treated your skin. That said, we may give you topical creams to rub onto your treatment area. These creams will boost your body’s production of elastin and collagen and enhance the effects of your treatment sessions.

Who Is Eligible for This Aesthetic Treatment?

Before we treat your skin, we will review your medical record to ensure that you are in good enough health to receive your desired treatment. If you are not a good candidate for your preferred cosmetic technique, we can suggest other options that will work for you.

Can I Use Other Methods to Improve My Skin?

In addition to laser treatments, we can use topical creams and microneedling with platelet-rich plasma to improve your appearance. During a microneedling treatment, we will use needles to make very small injuries in your skin. These tiny injuries will allow your tissues to absorb a healing substance called platelet-rich plasma.

Certain dermal fillers can also reduce your imperfections by increasing the collagen fibers in your skin. As these connective fibers build up in your body, your unwanted marks will fade away.

Enhance Your Skin

Your stretch marks don’t have to be a permanent part of your life. Receiving a series of cosmetic treatments is a great way to fade these marks and give your skin a refreshed, attractive look. Contact us today to discuss your options!

Choosing a cosmetic treatment to reduce facial wrinkles can involve reviewing an exhaustive list of options. But at Vibrant Dermatology in Dedham, MA, we would like to simplify this process and recommend RF microneedling. Non-invasive and pain-free, this revolutionary therapy delivers multiple anti-aging benefits at once.

What Is RF Microneedling?

This treatment combines insulated needles with high-intensity energy to target tissues beneath the skin. As the needles make tiny pinpricks in the skin, heat is delivered to kick the body’s healing processes into gear. That is, collagen and elastin production both escalate. Visibly, you see:

• Fewer wrinkles
• Diminished lines
• Firmer skin
• Fewer scars
• Reduced pores
• Improved depressed scars
• Brighter complexion
• Smoother and softer texture

This two-fold approach goes beyond traditional microneedling to further prompt collagen and healing processes. In short, this is lauded as the only treatment of its kind to simultaneously reduce wrinkles and tighten skin.

How It Works

During your session, we apply a topical numbing cream to the treatment area. The treatment device incorporates a cluster of needles to deliver multiple pricks to the skin. We go less than a half centimeter deep, so the actual injury to your face is minimal. At the same time, the needling device sends radio waves directly into the skin that, in the form of heat, diminish wrinkles, age spots, and scars.

The combined therapy of heat and needles causes a chain reaction deep below the skin. Collagen production helps repair tissues for improved tone; elastin restores elasticity and bounce; hyaluronic acid provides much-needed hydration. All of this takes just 20 minutes, but the results are nothing short of remarkable: firmer, rejuvenated, and more youthful-looking skin.

Treatment Areas

In addition to treating fine lines and wrinkles on the cheeks, near the mouth, and around the eyes, this therapy is gentle enough for sensitive areas like:

• Upper and lower eyelids
• Upper lip
• Around the nose

What to Expect

Results can usually be seen immediately and will continue to emerge over the next six months as collagen production increases. For the most robust results, we recommend a series of three sessions. Effects can last a year, and follow-up therapies will help you maintain your results.

Contrary to myths, microneedling does not create holes in the skin. The punctures created by the needles are minuscule – tiny enough that nobody will see them. Immediately after treatment, you may experience some slight flushing that is completely normal. Your face may also feel a little warm, but that will quickly subside.

Who Is This Right for?

• Skin laxity
• Uneven tone
• Dull or dry texture

We do not recommend this therapy for patients with active skin infections, open wounds, or who are pregnant. A history of certain scars and/or some medications and therapies may also preclude you from candidacy. During your consultation, we’ll explore your options to determine the right treatment for you.

A Step Above the Rest

For patients in southwest Massachusetts – including Boston, Dedham, Westwood, Norwood, Canton, Sharon, Milton, Walpole, Foxboro, and Needham – we strongly urge you to try microneedling with RF to revitalize your appearance! Call us today to book your consultation! 

Liquid Lift

• Dermal fillers
• Neurotoxins
• Chemical peels
• Laser treatments

Each individual therapy targets a specific condition to provide cumulative results. Fillers, for example, replace lost volume, while injectable neurotoxins smooth fine lines. Chemical peels improve skin clarity, and laser treatments can correct scars, wrinkles, and laxity.

NeoSkin Rejuvenation

This laser treatment, as stated earlier, tightens the skin for a more youthful appearance. As an added bonus, it also eliminates age spots, redness, and hyperpigmentation. The result is a fresher, more revitalized face achieved in sessions that take between 15 and 45 minutes.

Injectable Fillers

This is where we describe fillers, which all work to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Some also restore volume to areas like the cheeks and under-eye hollows so you more closely resemble your glowy, dewy, and younger self. The fillers we are offer are:

• Juvederm
• Kybella
• Radiesse
• Restylane
• Sculptra

Each works in a slightly different manner to achieve slightly different results. For instance, Juvederm is particularly beneficial for plumping skin and can also be injected into the lips.

Kybella addresses sagging under the chin. Radiesse is ideal for smoothing the skin around the cheeks and mouth. Restylane works much like Juvederm, while Sculptra ignites collagen production to correct deep and shallow wrinkles.

Neurotoxins

Injectables within this category work a little differently from fillers in that they inhibit muscle movement. This occurs only in the specific treatment area and only in muscles that contribute to the appearance of fine lines. Neurotoxins commonly benefit lines in the forehead and around the eyes, as well as sagging jawlines, where the skin is delicate and requires a precise application.

Because they impede movement, these injectables also prevent new wrinkles from forming. You might therefore think of them as key to an ongoing appearance of youth. For patients in the areas of Boston, Dedham, Westwood, Norwood, Canton, Sharon, Milton, Walpole, Foxboro, and Needham, we offer two neurotoxins: Botox and Xeomin.

So Many Options

Anyone who wants to rejuvenate their appearance can benefit from a variety of non-surgical therapies. The only question is: which treatment will you decide upon for yourself? Give us a call today to book your consultation!

What Is Microneedling?

This treatment – also known as collagen induction therapy (CIT) – uses very fine needles attached to a hand-held roller. A healthcare provider gently rolls those needles over the face to make microscopic pricks (not holes) in the skin. By making the tiniest of injuries, this process ignites the production of collagen within the body.

Collagen is a protein vital to skin health. With it, your face looks firm and plump. Collagen also revs up skin cell turnover to slough off the old and reveal the new. The combination of these processes helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. As an added bonus, this therapy also targets age spots, hyperpigmentation, and acne scars.

Facial Application

This therapy can be used throughout the face, including under the chin, on the upper lip, and across the brow area. It is suitable for almost any patient without facial lesions, active infections – including cystic acne, or problems with wound healing.

What Is Ultherapy?

This is another therapy that works below the skin’s surface to provide a more youthful appearance to the face. Specifically, a handheld applicator is used to deliver targeted heat energy to three different layers:

• Surface wrinkles
• Skin
• Muscle

The heat stimulates collagen production in the treatment areas. Because it provides an image of underlying tissues during treatment sessions, it is considered a very precise therapy. It can be further customized with temperature and treatment depth to provide optimal results.

The Benefits

Ultrasound therapy is FDA-approved to tighten skin, and hence, this is the area in which it really shines. Patients see smoother jawlines, tighter necks, and higher brows for a more contoured and fresher appearance.

Which Is Better?

Simply put, both of these therapies yield significant and long-term benefits. Each also provides precise targeting to deliver the results you want, so one shouldn’t be thought of as better than the other. The more appropriate question, therefore, is what concern do you hope to address with treatment?

Comparing Results

CIT is a natural and proven way to rejuvenate the face. Again, it removes wrinkles, which are commonly thought to be the most telling signs of aging, and improves skin clarity and tone.

Ultrasound therapy, on the other hand, helps lift skin in a non-invasive manner. This is a great alternative for those who have considered a surgical facelift but don’t want the recovery period and/or the incision scars.

Patient Profiles

Both treatments are safe for most patients, although ultrasound therapy is more ideally suited to patients in their 30s and 40s who want to combat mild skin sagging. Ultrasound therapy also provides a slightly more comfortable experience with less recovery time. But CIT penetrates deeper to resolve multiple issues at once: skin discoloration, wrinkles, and some sagging.

The Choice Is Yours

Again, we want to stress that neither therapy is necessarily better than the other. It’s a matter of deciding which method you prefer and which targeted treatment you want to receive. During your consultation, we can help determine which fits better with your treatment plan.

As women, we can feel that our hair is our crowning glory. We express ourselves and our personalities with different cuts, colors, and styles. It can be devastating if that glory begins to fade or thin. For black women, hair loss can be especially distressing, as it takes a long time to grow out your natural hair. Here at Vibrant Dermatology & Skinbar MD in Dedham, MA, expert dermatologist Dr. Joyce Imahiyerobo-Ip can discover the root cause of hair loss, and find a satisfying solution to help you look and feel your best self.

How Can Black Women Treat Hair Loss?

In order to treat hair loss, you need to know what is causing it. Different causes require different treatments. That is why a good doctor will spend time with you to work out the potential reasons for your hair loss. If you’re a black woman you need a dermatologist who really understands your skin and hair, as the nature of your skin and hair makes you more likely to have certain conditions.

What Causes Hair Loss?

There are a number of causes of hair loss, and diagnosing them correctly will allow your physician to recommend the right treatment for you. For this reason, it is important to see a dermatologist with specialized training in treating hair loss. The doctor will ask questions about your medical history and lifestyle and will examine your scalp. In some cases, they may also want to take blood samples or a scalp biopsy to diagnose the problem and formulate the best course of treatment.

Health Conditions

Alopecia Areata is an autoimmune disease that affects the hair. Loss of hair from this condition happens when the immune system attacks the hair follicles. This condition can occur at any age, though it is often first noticeable during childhood. Unlike other types of loss, people with alopecia areata experience patchy loss of hair that begins with coin-sized, round, smooth, bare patches where hair once was.

Some women suffer from Androgenetic Alopecia, which is genetic and sometimes known as female pattern baldness. This often manifests in a thinning hairline or widening part. Hormones also play a part in hair growth and thickness; women may notice their hair thinning after the birth of a child or as they approach menopause.

Hair Styles

Wearing your hair in weaves and braids is a great way of switching up your style, and when done right can protect your hair, but it can also pull on the hair follicles and cause breakages. In some cases, it may lead to Traction Alopecia, caused by consistent pulling on the hair. Traction Alopecia may cause red bumps or flaking of the scalp, but if it is not treated can lead to permanent loss of hair.

For Women of Color, it can be a surprise to hear that weaves and braids, which are often touted as the best way to protect your hair when you’re growing it out, can actually cause more damage than they prevent.

Whether you’re having trouble with hair thinning or loss or just want to make sure your hair is as healthy as it can be, don’t delay. Get in touch with us at Vibrant Dermatology & Skinbar MD in Dedham, MA. We help everyone in the Boston, Dedham, Westwood, Norwood Canton, Sharon, Milton, Walpole, Foxboro, and Needham areas: and we can help you!