Having a facelift can pull back the skin so tight that it doesn’t look good.
But with his philosophy of developing noninvasive or minimimally invasive procedures, Dr. Michael Lau, an Edmonds surgeon, offers something other than facelifts.
As we age the face shrinks and skin begins to sag.
“It’s like putting a size eight dress on a size two skeleton,” Lau said.
Lau’s idea is to keep volume in the skin with Botox, derma filler and other procedures that stimulate collagen by heating tissue from the inside out.
And you don’t have to wait until the sagging begins. Lau sees these steps as preventative and maintenance to avoid later surgery.
“People come from all over,” said Susan Cummins, a medical esthetician who began working with Lau in 2008.
Cummins was the skin and make-up specialist for the Sea Gals for 14 years, and, an educator first and foremost, she now lectures throughout the country on the importance of looking after skin. Patients from as far away as Texas and England come to see her at the Edmonds clinic where she helps them improve the texture of their skin after when suffering from sun damage and age spots.
“Sun can age you 70 percent faster,” Cummins said.
Men and women have sunspots from what they did years ago to their skin. The one thing she tells people above all else: use sunscreen and learn to use it properly.
“It’s not about shoving anything down their throats,” Cummins said. “It’s about addressing what they need.”
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