A healthy and flawless skin is a dream of many. DR AJAY RANA tells you how aesthetic treatments can help achieve it

Aesthetic medicine is the medical process of modifying a body part of a person, either to enhance it or to decrease the risk of certain types of diseases including body fat, hair loss, skin patches and skin problems. It is a treatment that includes surgical practices from non-invasive treatments such as laser treatments to invasive procedures such as reconstructive surgeries. Nowadays many non-invasive aesthetic treatments are available through which one can enhance his beauty.

Some of the best aesthetic medicine treatments are as follows:

 Chemical peels: Chemical peels are cosmetic treatments primarily performed on the face, typically used as an anti-ageing solution to rejuvenate the skin. These chemical peels are used to correct skin irregularities in texture, such as fine lines, and color, such as spots caused by sun damage. In this treatment, a chemical solution is applied on the skin, which makes it blister and after few minutes these chemical peel are taken off. After applying chemical peels, the new skin is usually smoother and less wrinkled than the old skin.

Laser skin resurfacing: It removes the outer layers of the skin that are damaged due to various conditions. This technique uses concentrated pulsating beams of light at irregular skin and remove skin layer by layer. Laser skin resurfacing treatment is also called lasabrasion, laser peel, or laser vaporisation.

Mesotherapy: The treatment uses brightening agents such as glutathione, tranesxemic acid, hydrating agents, vitamins and minerals and micropuncture techniques. In this treatment injections with very fine needles to deliver enzymes, hormones, and vitamins to skin to tighten is injected on the skin that need to be treated and rejuvenate it.

Oxygen facial: It’s a non-invasive, relaxing and painless skin care treatment. This treatment cleanses the damaged skin with oxygen and saline, exfoliates, boosts lymphatic drainage and provides extraction benefits. It’s considered a nonmedical procedure because nothing is injected into the body and no chemicals are used. Oxygen facial allow the pores to easily absorb hyaluronic acid and other powerhouse ingredients from serums.

Facial fillers: In this treatment injectable gels are used to smoothen wrinkles, iron out lines and folds and fill up scars and other depressions on the skin surface. It relax the muscle under a wrinkle, fill the line, crease, or area with one of several different substances. Wrinkle and facial fillers can also be used for plumping and lifting cheeks, chins, jawlines, and temples; filling out thin lips, and plumping sagging hands. They are safe and can help in forming the body’s natural moisturiser. On the other side permanent fillers are synthetic and last longer, but there is a rare possibility of infection or granuloma with them.

Microneedling: Microneedling is a process of skin resurfacing technology that uses the skin’s natural healing process to reduce skin imperfections, treat sun damage, and restore a smoother, clearer complexion. Microneedling does not remove any layers of skin with harmful chemicals or lasers and it is safe for all skin types.

Aesthetics treatments are some of the most effective ways of improving one’s appearance. These non- invasive treatments are used to give more natural and healthier look to the skin without causing any damage .

The writer is Dermatologist and Aesthetic Physician, Founder-Director of ILAMED