Treatments for the cheeks from Riverbanks Clinic

It's natural to lose facial volume as we age, whether it's due to fluctuations in our weight, exposure to stress and even facial wrinkles. But sometimes it's just a sign of aging, and one that you can avoid!

Sagging, lined cheeks can give the effect of dragging the overall facial expression downward, creating a melancholy effect which can be very aging.

Cheek Lines and Wrinkles and Facial Sagging

Whatever your age or disposition, we can help you restore and rejuvenate your mid-face appearance using dermal fillers such as Restylane SubQ or Radiesse. Treatment lasts for up to a year and results are subtle and completely natural-looking.

Alternatively, Sculptra provides a valuable support structure within the actual skin itself, to help create the effects of a face-lift without any need for surgery. These noticeable, highly effective results can last for as long as 3 years, and are given as a course of treatments, each 4 – 6 weeks apart. Most people need 3 treatments.
You don't have to put up with droopy cheeks and lines and wrinkles - contact us now and have a chat through your options!

Treatment for the eyes and eyebrows from Riverbanks Clinic

Continuing our series of blogs on Top to Toe treatments, today it's the turn of the eyes and eyebrows.

They say that the eyes are the window to the soul - well we're not sure about that but we do know that if your eyes look bright and clear, you look younger, happier and more carefree than when they're downturned, droopy and wrinkled!

So here are some eye treatments you may want to consider if you don't quite feel your best!

Crows Feet

Sometimes called laughter lines, let's be honest, there's nothing that funny about them!

Consider:

• SmartXide DOT therapy


• Dermal fillers


• Priori AAHA Eye Serum


• Idebenone Eye Serum

Tear Troughs

The natural ageing process means that we all eventually develop tear troughs in the grooves below our eyes. However, sometimes we develop these grooves prematurely. This can often be a genetic factor.

Take a look at:

• Dermal fillers such as Restylane and Juvéderm® Ultra


• Sculptra


• Our range of high-quality eye serums

Frown Lines

There are two types of ‘frown’ lines commonly present between the eyebrows: those that only appear with expression (dynamic), and those that are present all the time (static).

For dynamic frown lines think about:

• Botox

For static frown lines you'll need:

• Dermal fillers such as Restylane or Juvéderm® Ultra

Eyebrow Lifts

Gone are the days when you needed surgery to lift your eyebrows for a fresher, more alert look. These days, both botox and dermal fillers such as Restylane or Juvéderm®Ultra can be used, with highly effective results.

For more info on eyebrow lifts see our eyebrow lifts page on our main website.

Want to find out more about eye treatments at Riverbanks Clinic? Contact us now and we'd love to answer your questions!

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The horrors of years of tanning, and how to fix them

You may have read in the Daily Mail over the weekend how TV presenter Anna Ryder Richardson finally realised that her lifelong love of tanning had lead to more than she expected.

Says Ryder Richardson: "I knew that my love of tanning would encourage wrinkling but I was horrified when she [the surgeon] told me that it speeds up the destruction of collagen, which gives plumpness to your face"

She goes on to tell how in her 20s she had a sunbed at home and used coconut oil in the summer to get a quicker and better tan - no SPF50 for her! And let's not forget that stint in the I'm A Celebrity Jungle, which may have seemed like heaven for her tan, but would have played hell with her skin.

The problem, as the article states, is that:

Collagen loss, she [the surgeon] explained, happens to everyone, particularly after the age of 35. Collagen is an elastic tissue that helps build cartilage, ligaments and tendons.

It is also responsible for skin strength and elasticity and is the main component of the lower layer of skin - the dermis.

The production of collagen slows down in your early 30s due to the ageing process. This is when the face starts to lose volume and your cheeks can start to look gaunt by your early 40s.

But the loss of collagen is greater when your skin is exposed to sun and ultra-violet (UV) light.

The rate at which it diminishes varies from individual to individual, but exposing your face to sunlight continually over decades could speed up the rate of collagen depletion and the corresponding loss in facial volume by ten years or more.

So Ms Ryder Richardson turned to Sculptra, a non invasive cosmetic procedure that can fill out your face to restore the plumpness of youth and give you a kind of facelift that lasts between 18 months and two years.

And she appears to be thrilled with the results, saying "After six weeks, my skin was definitely looking better. My cheeks were fuller. Filled out by the extra volume, the jowls that were beginning to appear have vanished. At 12 weeks, and after having had the second treatment, my face is looking generally fuller and more lifted. Friends keep telling me I look 'really well'."

Dr Ravi Jain, of Riverbanks Clinic sits on the advisory board to the makers of Sculptra and has treated many patients worried about the effects of tanning on their skin. To find out more about the Sculptra 'facelift', visit the Riverbanks website now!

Gordon Ramsay admits Botox on chin - was it worth it?

The Daily Mail asked a few weeks ago whether Gordon Ramsay had resorted to Botox on that famous craggy, lined face of his, using the following pictures as 'proof' that he had a less lined forehead:

He joked about it then, but reports over the weekend state that he has indeed undertaken Botox - on his chin!

You would imagine that Gordon more than most would realise that his famously lined face is part of his appeal (or so my female friends tell me!), but the famously Botoxed Simon Cowell is alleged to have talked him into it.

Gordon is quoted as saying "“Anyway, I was getting a complex for the first time in my life, so I did it. Botox. A jab here and one here. And no one has f****** noticed."

What do you think? Tell us in the comments below whether you think he looks better, worse, or no different.

Of course, this 'story' proves that it's not only women who decide that Botox will make them look and feel better - at Riverbanks we regularly treat men as well as women. So, if you're a man, looking in the mirror and not liking the wrinkles you see, why not contact us and see what we can do?