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Dr. Davis Explains His Vast Experience with COVID-19 Precautions

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While everyone was cooped up inside the house during quarantine, Dr. Steven Davis was busy with research. Teaming up with the top plastic surgeons and infectious disease experts around the globe, Dr. D lead a task force to determine the proper COVID-19 precautions for returning to the office.

Here at Cherry Hill, New Jersey’s top cosmetic plastic surgery center, we have renovated everything you can imagine to the highest standard. Our new protocols set in place have become the playbook for other offices around the country, and we’re excited to share them with you.

Join board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Davis, as he explains how he kept himself busy during quarantine by keeping in touch with professionals from Italy, Greece, Taiwan, and more regarding the proper COVID-19 precautions.

[Transcript]

Hi everyone. I’m standing in my newly renovated office and I’m getting it all ready for you guys to come on back in to see me. I’ve missed all of you very much, but I just wanted to make sure that I’m telling you all the things that I’ve done to prepare the office and the staff for a very, very safe visit.

First of all, for all of you that know me, you probably realize that I was going nuts over these three to four months when we really couldn’t do anything. So immediately, after we were shut down, I think it was around March 13th or 14th, what started happening was, I started to make phone calls to my colleagues across the country.

And slowly but surely, I started to like piece things together where I actually became the person in charge of this task force that really recruited special ideas from everyone about how to get things completely safe for you to come back.

So I got put in touch with people in Italy, plastic surgeons that were just getting out of their pandemic. I was on a phone call with infectious disease doctors from Italy.

Last week I was on from Taiwan with dermatologists and infectious disease experts. And what I want to make sure that you know, is that we’ve done everything over and above, as you can see from the newly renovated office to just make everything extremely safe for you.

And we’re gonna be sending you out an email that’s gonna kind of go through what we want you to do when you come into the office, but rest assured that we have air handlers that have been changed and they are actually purifying the air.

We have everything that you could possibly think of, is actually been thought of already, and we’ve put it all together in a really sequenced fashion. So I’m really looking forward to coming back to work and I’m looking forward to seeing you too. So stay healthy and I’ll see you next week.

Dr. Steven Davis of Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in Cherry Hill, New Jersey wants to ensure the comfort of all patients, which begins with education. We hope our video series can provide useful information for those with upcoming appointments or interested in the behind-the-scenes action of plastic surgery.

If you want more content in audio format, please check out The Plastic Surgery Revolution. Also, check out Dr. Steven Davis on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter!

For Some, a Brow Lift Can Be a Significant Upgrade Over Neuromodulators

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In my last post, I explored some different methods for improving a drooping brow. Neuromodulators, like Botox and Jeuveau, are generally quite effective on that front (among lots of others), especially in younger patients. But, as we lose some of the fatty tissue and muscle in our faces to aging, neuromodulators will lose some of their potency. At which point, it may be time to consider a brow lift.

A brow lift can serve other functions, too, including minimizing that furrow between your brows, known as the “elevens,” and shortening the forehead, which creates a subtly rounder, more youthful-looking face.

So, what is a brow lift, exactly? Let’s get into it.

A minimally-invasive technique

First things first: A brow lift is a cosmetic surgical procedure where the skin of the forehead is raised—it’s also referred to as a forehead lift—lifting a drooping brow, smoothing forehead creases and wrinkles, and giving the upper part of the face a younger, fresher look.

It’s sometimes combined with a facelift or upper eyelid surgery, but, depending on your desired results and the severity of your sagging, a brow lift can be plenty effective on its own.

There are several variations of the procedure. Some of are less invasive than others. Most of the brow lifts performed today are endoscopic, which is a minimally-invasive technique where the surgeon makes four to five incisions, each about three-quarters of an inch long, just behind your hairline. Then, they’ll insert a long, thin tube with a tiny camera and a powerful light on the end through one of the incisions. That will guide the surgical instrument that’s inserted through the other incisions to pull and lift the forehead tissue and anchor it in place.

The technique, which has a shorter recovery period than the more invasive methods, is ideal for those with minimal forehead wrinkles and mild to moderate skin laxity.

Long-lasting results

The first thing virtually everyone wants to know about an injectable or a surgical procedure is: Does it work? A brow lift does work, and you’ll be able to see a significant change right after the procedure. And that change will improve even more after a few weeks, when most of the swelling will have subsided.

As for how long those results will last, they vary, because a brow lift does not halt sagging skin. Alas, nothing does. But most can expect their new, smoother foreheads to last for about a decade. And that’s a significant upgrade over neuromodulators, which need to be replenished every several months.

What is Skin Laxity, Exactly? And, What Can You Do About It?

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The adage should really go, “There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and skin laxity.”

It’s true; all of us will eventually develop some degree of skin laxity. For some, thanks to a combination of factors, that day may arrive sooner than it will for most. But that shouldn’t imply that there’s nothing you can do about.

Over the next two blog posts, we’ll unpack skin laxity, beginning here with what it is, exactly, what causes it, and how it progresses. In my next post, we’ll get into what you can do about it, from the mildest forms to the most severe. (Spoiler alert: There are lots of treatments, both noninvasive and surgical, to improve skin laxity.)

What is Skin Laxity, Exactly? And, What Can You Do About It?

How you can slow your skin laxity

So, what is skin laxity—beyond one of those terms you’ve heard a bunch in passing? Very simply, it refers to the state of loose skin, which occurs as a result of the depletion of collagen and elastin. Think of collagen as the skin’s building blocks. Soon after we enter our twenties, our collagen production will begin to drop off by 1% each year. (Yup, that soon.)

Elastin is a protein that coils and recoils like a spring within the skin’s elastic fibers. When you pinch, tug, or smush your skin anywhere on your body, the elastin is what snaps it back into place. But right around the time we start losing collagen, we also begin losing elastin.

All of this is part of the natural aging process, but we experience skin laxity a little differently from one person to the next because a number of other factors also play a part, including, most commonly, genetics, sun exposure, diet, lifestyle, stress, significant weight loss, and smoking.

So, how well you’ve taken care of yourself can mean the difference between a few fine lines and a few deep wrinkles, at least early on. At a certain point, there’s no denying the inevitable.

The different types of skin laxity

Skin laxity is diagnosed according to one of three categories: mild, moderate, and severe. With mild, most typically notice subtle changes to the middle of their faces first. Then, as we move from moderate to severe, the skin around our necks will begin to appear a little crepe-y and we’ll start to form jowls.

In the recent past, surgery was essentially the only option for anyone who had entered the moderate and severe phases of skin laxity. Fillers offered an alternative, but the results, at that point, tended to look overdone or disproportionate. Which is why you may be a bit wary about the idea of seeking treatment. There’s no unseeing those images. But today’s treatments are far more precise, both in their application and their outcomes.

Thanks to advances in the methods and improvements in plastic surgeons’ skillsets, it is possible to reverse nature’s course without losing any of your natural beauty in the process.

Going Over the New Davis CPS Patient Safety Protocols

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With our office back open and in full swing, we’re excited to share with you the changes we’ve made for the safety of both clients and our employees. Due to the changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Davis CPS office has gone through a complete transformation. With a brand new, updated interior, we thought, why stop there? The new patient safety protocols put in place have become a standard across the industry that we are proud to lead.

Join us as Dr. Davis goes over the brand new patient safety protocols with help from Davis CPS’s own, Allison Gross. Although there have been many challenges to overcome, our refreshed process is one that our team has been looking forward to unveiling.

Are you ready to get back into the office? Contact us directly via our website and experience these exciting new changes first-hand!

[Transcript]

– Alli and I are gonna demonstrate some of the new safety protocols and procedures that we’re gonna have you go through when you come into the office. So why don’t you come along with us as we demonstrate.

– Hi Dr. Davis.

– Hi, how ya doin’?

– Here’s some hand sanitizer for you. I’m gonna bring you into the new entrance to our office if you want to come this way.

– Great.

– I’m gonna bring you in to the new entrance to the office.

– Oh, thank you.

– Okay, I’m gonna take your temperature. Perfect.

– Good.

– 98.7.

– Okay, I’m gonna bring you back to your room.

– Okay.

– If you can stand here just for one second. I’ll bring you back. Have you right in here

– Thank you.

– Hi everybody. I just wanna go over the new check-out process. I am aware I do not have a mask on, we will have masks on as we do check you out. Check-out is now going to be in each individual room, with each individual patient. We are using iPads, with our credit-card system, they are cleaned after every single patient. It does work with your Brilliant Distinctions points, it works with your Aspire points, we can schedule your next appointment. Everything is going to be done in the room. We also have stylus’, so that you can sign. There is not a lot of touching of anything.

– All right, if I can just have you sign. Thank you. We have your follow-up appointment scheduled for two weeks and I will take you out.

– Terrific.

– Have a good one.

– Bye, bye, thank you.

– Bye.

Dr. Steven Davis of Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in Cherry Hill, New Jersey wants to ensure the comfort of all patients, which begins with education. We hope our video series can provide useful information for those with upcoming appointments or interested in the behind-the-scenes action of plastic surgery.

If you want more content in audio format, please check out The Plastic Surgery Revolution. Also, check out Dr. Steven Davis on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter!