Treatments

1. What does the treatment consist of?
   It is a simple, nonsurgical, FDA approved, physician-administered injection treatment that can temporarily smooth moderate to severe frown lines, crow’s feet (wrinkles around the eyes) and forehead lines in adults patients. Botox® consists of a purified protein produced by the Clostridium botulinum bacterium, which reduces the contraction of certain muscles in the face which are responsible for producing the frown lines or the wrinkles in the forehead.
2. How long does the procedure take?
   It is a 15 min procedure that requires no prior anesthesia. The effect starts to kick in a few days after the treatment (2-7 days) and usually lasts up to 4 months.
3. What are the commonly treated areas?
   Common areas that can be treated include but are not limited to the frown lines, forehead wrinkles, crow’s feet and bunny lines (wrinkles over the sides of the nose).
4. What other issues may the treatment solve?
   The treatment has been recently approved to treat excessive sweating of the underarms in people who show resistance to antiperspirants. Other areas that can be treated include the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet.

1. What are dermal fillers?
   As we age, the skin loses its elasticity and the deep fat pads resorb and shift which leads to a change in facial shape and to the classical signs of aging such as wrinkles, hollowing of the cheeks and the temples, deepening of the nasolabial folds as well as eye bags. The dermal fillers treatment is one of the most popular procedures worldwide that helps restore volume loss and facial shape with aging. In addition, it lifts the sagginess and attenuates wrinkles. Dermal fillers have replaced surgery in many instances because of the lower risks, lower downtime and lower cost involved.
2. What fillers do we use? 
   We use the best fillers available, containing hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid is a substance that is naturally produced by the human skin cells and that is critical to maintain a healthy and young skin.

1. Chemical peels may be useful for several skin conditions such as melasma, acne, acne scarring, and photodamage. There are three different types of peels:
   1. Superficial to help refresh the face, neck, chest or hands.
   2. Medium to address acne and acne scarring.
   3. Deep peels to treat deep ice pick scars.
2. Mesotherapy consists of injecting vitamins, minerals, and amino acids cocktails into the mesodermal layer of the skin.
   1. 1. This infusion helps rejuvenate the elastin and collagen and may address several skin problems such as melasma and fine wrinkles. Mesotherapy can also be used to improve the hair.
      2. Dr. Nehmat Ramadan recommends combining mesotherapy with microneedling for better efficacy.

Icon is an aesthetic platform laser that can address and solve multiple skin problems including scars, wrinkles, sun damage, brown spots, spider veins as well as stretch marks. Our clinic was the first to introduce this laser platform to Lebanon in 2018.

We recommend this procedure to our patients because of its efficacy, beautiful results and most importantly its safety.

1. Which skin concerns are addressed with the ThreeForMe procedure?
   The ThreeForMe procedure is a laser treatment capable of addressing three common skin concerns: wrinkles, sun damage (brown spots) and facial veins all within the same procedure.
2. How does it work?
   It is a 40 min 2 steps procedure with relatively minimal downtime.
   1. First step:
      We treat sun damage including freckles, brown spots and facial vessels using a technology called Optimized Light Technology (OPL).
   2. Second step:
      We use the fractional laser to help generate new collagen and elastin to improve fine lines, wrinkles, and scars.

Telangiectasias or spider veins condition consists of dilated blood vessels or broken capillaries near the surface of the skin. They most often occur on the nose, lips, and cheeks. They are typically harmless but they can be unsightly. Many treatments are available for this skin condition. We recommend IPL or Nd YAG laser to coagulate the walls of these vessels and remove them.

1. What are Stretch Marks?
   Stretch Marks are a form of scars that appear on the skin during periods of hormonal flux, rapid weight loss or gain, and growth spurts. They are also commonly found during pregnancy, adolescence, and after weight lifting.
2. How to treat them?
   We, at Dr. Nehmat Ramadan Skin Clinic, use the revolutionary Icon Aesthetic System, to treat stretch marks. Icon is one of the few FDA approved devices for the effective treatment of stretch marks.
   Dr. Nehmat Ramadan recommends treating the stretch marks as soon as they appear and when they are still red or purplish as these will respond much quicker and with fewer laser sessions.

Getting rid of unwanted hair is liberating and saves time and money. We believe that laser hair removal is the best way to permanently reduce unwanted hair. We chose our hair removal laser very carefully to be safe and effective on all colors and types of skin.

Our laser “Elite+”, is a USA made and FDA approved machine known to be very effective and safe for hair removal. Beware that laser hair removal can be dangerous in inexperienced hands and that burns and permanent scars can ensue when lasers are used inappropriately.

Laser Genesis is a form of nonablative laser. The procedure consists of heating the collagen in the skin with lasers without inducing damage to the top layer of the skin.

Its goals are to:

• • • Promote and tighten collagen
    • Reduce pores size
    • Decrease facial redness
    • Smooth out skin tone and texture
    • Improve acne and light acne scars.

This procedure takes 30 min and has virtually no downtime.