Over time, our faces undergo some unavoidable changes. Volume loss and poor skin texture are a natural part of the aging process, both of which may be exasperated by genetics, environment, and personal habits. Patients desiring a more youthful and refreshed appearance often seek out services like facelift surgery or dermal fillers. Dr. Calabria offers non-surgical facelift treatment that produces fresh and long-lasting facial rejuvenation results.

How Does It Work?

The non-surgical facelift uses purified stem cell-enriched fat cells to plump and heal the skin. Fat cells are first harvested via liposuction; then they are filtered to extract the stem cells. When the stem cells are injected into the skin, they stimulate the creation of new blood vessels so the skin reconstructs itself long-term.

Non-Surgical Facelift vs. Traditional Facelift

Some benefits of the non-surgical facelift that are not offered by a traditional facelift are:

• Plumper, younger-looking skin
• Half the recovery time
• No scarring

Non-Surgical Facelift vs. Dermal Fillers

Injectable dermal fillers produce similar results to a non-surgical facelift, but they are not as effective. Synthetic fillers need to be injected on a regular basis to maintain results, whereas the stem cells continue to rejuvenate the skin long after treatment.

Am I a Candidate?

You may be a good candidate for a non-surgical facelift if you have any of the following facial characteristics:

• Volume loss
• Poor skin texture
• No sagging skin

If you are interested in correcting facial volume loss and poor skin texture, schedule your non-surgical facelift consultation with Dr. Calabria today. Call us at 310.777.0069 (Beverly Hills) or 760.836.0077 (Rancho Mirage), or you can contact us online.

 You may be familiar with celebrity horror stories of liposuction gone wrong.Dents, deformities, and a lumpy appearance are all the result of an improperly trained surgeon and poor recovery. When your liposuction leaves your appearance in worse shape than before, you may feel the need to cover your body. Unsight ly liposuction results can make you feel more self-conscious about your body than ever before, but that doesn’t mean you have to live with these bad results. Dr. Calabria performs stem cell fat grafting on patients to reverse the effects of liposuction deformities.

What Causes Liposuction Deformities?

Poor liposuction results are often created when too much fat or uneven amounts of fat are removed from the body. This can cause dents and a lumpy, cottage cheese-like appearance. Surface irregularities are typically caused by an inexperienced plastic surgeon who doesn’t have the skill to carefully craft your ideal shape through liposuction. In some cases, not properly following your recovery instructions can cause bad results.

Fat Grafting to Improve Your Appearance

Reversing liposuction deformities focuses on smoothing out the fat. In some cases, additional fat may be removed, but most patients don’t have enough remaining fat in the area for this to be a viable option. Instead, Dr. Calabria can use fat grafting to restore your appearance.

Fat grafting works by harvesting fat from another area of your body. This area should have excess deposits of fat, and possible areas may include in the abdomen, hips, waist, thighs, or back. The fat is then purified into stem cells, which are carefully grafted into your treatment area. The new tissue helps fill in the dents and surface irregularities. Over time, the stem cells stimulate new growth factors, which smooth out and refine the area.

Choosing a Revision Surgeon

Dr. Calabria specializes in stem cell fat grafting and has extensive experience in liposuction revision. He combines the regenerative nature of stem cells with the artistic flare of liposuction to restore a smoother and balanced appearance. He has been one of the leading fat grafting plastic surgeons for the past 20 years.

If you are unhappy with your liposuction results and are looking for a smoother, more sculpted appearance, schedule your consultation with Dr. Calabria today. Contact our Beverly Hills office at 310.777.0069 or our Rancho Mirage office at 760.836.0077. You may also contact us online.

For decades, surgeons have been performing facelift surgery to restore a more youthful appearance to the face of men and women. The traditional technique used to involve pulling the tissues of the face horizontally in order to achieve a tighter facial appearance. However, this technique can often result in a wind-swept appearance. To combat poor facelift results, Dr. Calabria designed the vertical facelift, which addresses aging in relation to gravity and facial anatomy.

Having perfected the vertical facelift, in which tissues are shifted upwards to counteract gravity, Dr. Calabria began to notice that a lack of facial volume would prevent some patients from having the total rejuvenation they desire. These patients would best benefit from a stem cell facelift.

What Is a Stem Cell Facelift?  

A stem cell facelift uses regenerative stem cells that are harvested from fat cells. These stem cells are grafted into the facial tissues to restore lost volume and create a better facial sculpt. A special liposuction technique is used to harvest unwanted fat from certain areas of the body, and Celution® purifies the cells. Once the stem cells have been properly grafted into the tissue, Dr. Calabria completes his vertical facelift technique to counteract tissue sagging.

Benefits of a Stem Cell Facelift

• Uses patient-derived fat to ensure no negative reactions to the injected material (unlike dermal fillers, stem cells are the patient’s own tissue and won’t cause an allergic reaction when placed)
• Can be used to enhance definition and better sculpt the cheeks and chin
• Dr. Calabria’s techniques ensure the most natural facelift possible
• Regenerative cells stimulate the production of new collagen and growth factors to ensure the longest-lasting results possible
• Provides significant improvement in the volume of the facial tissues
• Provides minor improvements to stubborn fatty areas of the body

If you have both volume loss and sagging skin that are creating a poor facial appearance, schedule your stem cell facelift consultation with Dr. Calabria today. Call us at (310) 777-0069 (Beverly Hills) or 760.836.0077 (Palm Springs), or you can contact us online.

Did you know that one way to tell a person’s true age is by looking at their hands. Taking great care of our faces is becoming a more common practice. We wear sunscreen more and have skin care routines that help fight wrinkle development. However, many people let hand maintenance fall to the wayside. Hand rejuvenation can help you look younger all the way down to your fingertips.

Why Our Hands Age

Collagen and minor fat in our hands help give them a plump, smooth, and youthful appearance. As we age, these volumizing tissues break down, causing the hands to appear bony. Tendons can become more pronounced, and the skin becomes thin and appears dry. Restoring lost volume in the hands is the ideal way to reverse these signs of aging.

Restoring Hand Volume

There are two ways to restore volume to your hands. The first way is with injections of RADIESSE®. RADIESSE® is a dermal filler that stimulates collagen production in the dermis. Since RADIESSE® stimulates collagen production, the created volume lasts long after the injectable formula has been absorbed by the body. The second technique that can restore hand volume is fat grafting. Dr. Calabria’s stem cell fat grafting provides the longest-lasting results of any procedure on the market. Fat grafting utilizes patient-harvested fat to plump the hands. Stem cells also have the added benefit of improving the texture of your hands as well as restoring volume.

Both techniques can be tailored to your needs. Special attention can be paid to certain areas of the hands that may have more signs of aging.

 
To schedule your consultation with Dr. Calabria, call us (310) 777-0069 or contact us online.