Skin Care

Maintaining that youthful glow well into our 30s, 40s and beyond requires a little bit of work. Botox and dermal fillers can work wonders at targeting a specific problem area (e.g. crows feet and frown lines), but they offer treatment specifically at the site of injection. If you want to refresh your skin throughout, it’s best to focus on regular skin care in all its layers.

At Tannan Plastic Surgery, Dr. Tannan is pleased to offer two revolutionary skin care product lines. She recommends restoring youthful hydration, texture and elasticity with hyaluronic acid formulations from Ourself and managing sebum with ZO Skin Health, by Zein Obagi, MD.

Our approach to skin care begins with the consult, where we will outline your goals and identify your skin type. We will customize a specific skin health regimen for you, to get the skin ready for treatments and for sun protection. When skincare is not enough to meet your aesthetic goals, we will incorporate other modalities into your treatment plan. We may recommend professional grade chemical peels, Morpheus8 Microneedling or Helix CO2 laser to exfoliate your skin, stimulate your collagen, even out your skin tone and pigment while softening and smoothening the fine lines and irregular skin texture to complement your skin care regimen.

During your consultation, we go over your skin care history, your skin type (if you are prone to oily, combination or dry skin) and your pigmentation history. Typically we cover several questions related to your skin. For example:

• Do you have melasma, or dark patches of skin often on your cheeks or upper lip?
• Do you have rosacea, with large pores and red skin?
• Do you have acne scars that are darker than the rest of your skin?
• Do you have fine lines, coarse wrinkles or both?
• Do you have uneven skin texture or tone?

The consultation is customized to your specific needs. Once we learn more about your history and treatment goals, we develop a personalized, comprehensive skin care plan just for you. We will want to know if your goals are related to anti-aging, or hormonal acne, or if you hope to treat both at the same time.

Preparing your skin is an important part of the skin care process. Using our science-based skincare systems, we can maximize the penetration of products for your skin. This helps you get the most bang for your buck with each skin care treatment, whether it is for fine lines and wrinkles, pigmentation and skin tone issues, or severe acne. Skin care preparation serves another very important role. It ensures that your skin is refreshed while minimizing inflammation and scarring from chronic skin conditions like acne.

There are multiple products in each skincare line specifically designed for oily, dry and sensitive skin. The preparation system allows us to literally wash away the dead skin cells on the surface and prime your skin. This prep creates a beautiful, responsive layer of skin to receive the medicated treatment regimen for your condition.

Skin Care Preparation is tailored to your unique skin type and your goals with your skin care regimen. There will be more exfoliation and retinoic acid for acne-prone folks. For mature coarse and fine wrinkles, we will focus on hydration with hyaluronic acid that penetrates your skin barrier to plump your skin and stimulate collagen and elastin from within. For all this to work, you have to cleanse your skin well of debris so these products can penetrate into your skin!

Once we have prepared your skin, we are now ready to customize your skin care treatment plan. This typically involves a combination of skincare products to address specific issues or combinations of the following:

• Fine lines and wrinkles seen with aging
• Sun-damaged skin
• Uneven skin tones
• Hyperpigmentation seen with acne scars or melasma
• Redness and pore irregularity seen with rosacea
• Acne (from mild to severe acne)
• Dry, sensitive skin
• Oily skin

We adjust the intensity of treatment to address each specific concern with your skin. For example, we might treat acne with an aggressive skin care regimen if it is particularly difficult to control. Alternatively, if you have sensitive skin, or we begin with a gentler regimen. At the same time, the treatment plan works on preventing age-related changes to the face. We target fine lines and wrinkles from years of sun exposure and time.

It is also possible to combine treatment regimens to address multiple problems at the same time. For example, if your treatment goals are to even out your pigmentation and skin tone while working on anti-aging and tightening, we can do that simultaneously. This is where the art and science of skin care come together so we can meet your goals.

These treatments are so powerful that some of them can make you sensitive to the sun while using them. Medical grade skincare is potent and effective, and we strongly recommend protection from the sun with noncomedogenic mineral sunscreen.

Meet the First-Ever Tiered-Release Vesicle Delivery Technology^TM Skincare System. Formulated with patented technology, Ourself’s products deliver active ingredients right where they belong – deep within the skin. Hyaluronic acid, collagen and elastin-boosting peptides, niacinamide and Vitamin C are all packaged into the perfect vehicles to deliver them right where they belong in your dermis. We can target the source of the problem (deflated skin with loss of volume and elasticity) with hyaluronic acid in the palm of your hand. The Ourself product line works to improve fine lines and wrinkles within weeks of use by plumping and revitalizing the skin from within. With specialized formulations for the lips to add a natural plump without causing swelling or unwanted duck lips, the Ourself technology is unmatched.

ZO Skin Health has a long track record of utilizing natural, plant based ingredients to brighten skin and stimulate new skin cell development. Sometimes, hydration with Hyaluronic Acid is not enough, and in those situations, we will incorporate additional sebum and inflammation controlling treatments from ZO Skin Health.

Ready to optimize your look with exceptional skin health? Call (919) 797-0996 or come in for a consultation today! Botox and fillers are only the beginning at maintaining your appearance. Good skin care helps you achieve and maintain that youthful glow for the bright years ahead.