Facial Rejuvenation.

Facial Rejuvenation -- Foreword -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 - Skin aging, pathophysiology and clinical signs -- INTRODUCTION -- INTRINSIC FACTORS IN SKIN AGING -- EXTRINSIC FACTORS IN SKIN AGING -- AGING OF THE SUBCUTANEOUS STRUCTURES -- DERMATOPOROSIS -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 2 - Basics of laser treatment -- LASER IN DERMATOLOGY: A CENTURY OF LASER -- WHAT EXACTLY IS A LASER? -- LASER-TISSUE INTERACTIONS -- LASER DEVICES FOR THE DERMATOLOGIST -- HOWCAN A LASER BE USED? -- CHAPTER 3 - Photorejuvenation of the face through laser treatment of vascular or pigmented lesions and LED -- FROM VASCULAR TO PIGMENTARY APPLICATIONS -- REJUVENATION AND PULSED DYE LASER -- REJUVENATION AND LONG-PULSED 1,064 NMND:YAG LASER -- REJUVENATION AND 532 NMKTP LASER -- REJUVENATION WITH 578 NMYELLOW LASER AND 511 NM COPPER VAPOUR LASER -- REJUVENATION WITH LONG-PULSED ALEXANDRITE LASER -- REJUVENATION AND TREATMENT OF PIGMENTED LESIONS USING Q-SWITCHED LASER: THE GOLD STANDARD -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 4 - Facial skin aging and Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) -- WHAT IS INTENSE PULSED LIGHT AND HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM LASERS? -- INTENSE PULSED LIGHT FOR FACIAL SKIN PHOTOREJUVENATION -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 5 - Skin resurfacing and conventional ablative lasers -- PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES OF RESURFACING -- CORRECTING DERMATOHELIOSIS THROUGH CUTANEOUS RESURFACING -- PATIENT SELECTION AND INFORMATION -- PERFORMING RESURFACING -- POST-OPERATIVE FOLLOW-UP -- RESULTS -- SIDE EFFECTS -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 6 - Facial aging and non-ablative fractional photothermolysis -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNICAL ASPECTS -- CHOICE OF TREATMENT PARAMETERS -- INDICATIONS -- PATIENT SELECTION -- WHAT OCCURS DURING A SESSION? -- CLINICAL RESULTS -- SIDE EFFECTS AND COMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 7 - Ablative fractional laser therapy -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNICAL ASPECTS -- INDICATIONS.

PATIENT SELECTION -- PREOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT -- CLINICAL STUDIES -- COMBINATION TREATMENTS -- PRACTICAL TIPS -- POSTOPERATIVE CARE -- REDUCING ADVERSE EFFECTS: EXPECTED SIDE EFFECTS AND POTENTIAL COMPLICATIONS -- SUMMARY -- CHAPTER 8 - Fractional radiofrequency -- RADIOFREQUENCIES -- FRACTIONAL RF -- EFFECTS OF FRACTIONAL RF - WHICH EFFECTS ARE PROVEN? -- COMBINATIONS WITH FRACTIONAL RF -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 9 - Microfocused ultrasound -- CHARACTERISTICS OF MICROFOCUSED ULTRASOUND -- A USEFUL QUALITY OF ULTRASOUND REGARDING THE CUTANEOUS PHOTOTYPE -- RECOVERY FROM TREATMENT -- DISADVANTAGES -- INDICATIONS AND EFFICACY -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 10 - Facial rejuvenation: other techniques -- CHEMICAL PEELS -- MECHANICAL STIMULATION -- CHEMICAL ADIPOCYTE LYSIS -- THREAD LIFT -- CHAPTER 11 - Laser treatment consultation -- INTRODUCTION -- PRIOR CONSULTATION -- TREATMENT -- POST-TREATMENT CONSULTATION -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 12 - Lasers and related technologies, combined treatments in medical and cosmetic surgery -- INTRODUCTION -- LASERS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES ASSOCIATED TO INJECTIONS -- LASERS AND INJECTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH EYELID SURGERY -- LASERS AND INJECTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FACELIFTS -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 13 - Interactions between lasers, related technologies and injectable products -- INTRODUCTION -- HYPOTHESIS OF THE INTERACTION OF COMBINED TECHNIQUES -- INTERACTION WITH BOTULINUM TOXIN -- INTERACTION WITH DERMAL FILLERS -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 14 - Cutaneous aging and cosmetology -- CUTANEOUS AGING -- THE COSMETOLOGY OF AGING -- ACTIVE ANTI-AGING AGENTS -- IN ADDITION TO A TOPICAL SKINCARE ROUTINE -- WHICH AREAS WILL BE STUDIED AND DEVELOPED IN THE COSMETOLOGY OF TOMORROW? -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 15 - The objective evaluationof the effects of laser treatment in skin aging -- THE INSTRUMENTS IN THE DERMATOLOGY CLINIC "TOOLBOX".

HISTOLOGY TO EVALUATE LASER TREATMENTS -- BIOMETROLOGY TO ASSESS LASER TREATMENTS -- SKIN IMAGING -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 16 - Particularities of facial rejuvenation with laser and related technologies in Asian skin -- INTRODUCTION -- BIOLOGY AND HISTOLOGY OF THE ASIAN SKIN -- SKIN BARRIER FUNCTION IN ASIAN PATIENTS -- PAIN THRESHOLD -- AGING OF THE ASIAN SKIN -- CHANGES OF MELANOCYTES AND PIGMENTATION IN PHOTOAGED ASIAN SKIN PRONE TO HELIODERMY -- WHITENING COSMETICS PROBLEMS IN ASIA -- FITZPATRICK SKIN TYPES -- POST-INFLAMMATORY HYPERPIGMENTATION -- SOUTH-EAST ASIAN SKIN -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 17 - Particularities of the management of dark skin -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING SKIN OF COLOR -- LASER INDICATIONS IN DARK SKIN PATIENTS -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 18 - Lasers and North African skin -- INTRODUCTION -- MANAGING PATIENTS WITH VARIED PHOTOTYPES -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion -- Annexes.

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