Facial Pain

Facial pain is pain felt in any part of the face, including the mouth and eyes. Although it’s normally due to an injury or a headache, facial pain may also be the result of a serious medical condition. Most causes of facial pain are harmless. However, if you have facial pain that seems to come without any known cause, call us for an evaluation.

What causes facial pain?

• an oral infection
• an ulcer, or open sore
• an abscess
• a skin abscess
• a headache
• a facial injury
• a toothache

TMJ Disorder

The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) acts like a sliding hinge, connecting your jawbone to your skull. You have one joint on each side of your jaw. TMJ disorders — a type of temporomandibular disorder or TMD — can cause pain in your jaw joint and in the muscles that control jaw movement.

The exact cause of a person's TMJ disorder is often difficult to determine. Your pain may be due to a combination of factors, such as genetics, arthritis or jaw injury. Some people who have jaw pain also tend to clench or grind their teeth (bruxism), although many people habitually clench or grind their teeth and never develop TMJ disorders.

Oral Cancer Palliative Therapy

The aim of palliative treatment is to relieve symptoms and improve your quality of life. It can be used at any stage of an illness if there are troubling symptoms, such as pain or sickness. In advanced cancer, palliative treatment might help someone to live longer and more comfortably, even if they cannot be cured.

Palliative treatment is not just about medicines to control symptoms - such as painkillers and anti sickness drugs. Cancer treatments can also reduce or get rid of symptoms. For example, they can help to reduce pain by shrinking a tumour and reducing pressure on nerves or surrounding tissues. Treatments used in this way include:

• chemotherapy
• radiotherapy
• hormone therapy
• targeted cancer drugs
• surgery
• radiofrequency ablation
• cryotherapy

Mouth ulcer treatment

Mouth ulcers are small sores that form on your gums, lips, tongue, inner cheeks or roof of your mouth. Lots of different things can cause them, including minor injuries, hormonal changes and emotional stress. Many mouth ulcers go away on their own. Others may require treatment.

• Gums.
• Tongue.
• Roof of mouth (palate).
• Inner cheeks.
• Inner lips.

Hair Transplant

A hair transplant is a type of surgery that moves hair you already have to fill an area with thin or no hair. Doctors have been doing these transplants in the U.S. since the 1950s, but techniques have changed a lot in recent years.

Hair transplants are designed to be permanent. When your doctor gives you the okay, you can treat your transplanted hair like the rest of your hair -- wash, comb, and brush it as you like. However, there is a possibility that some hair grafts won’t survive and a small number may fall out.

Who might benefit from a hair transplant?

• men with male pattern baldness
• women with thinning hair
• anyone who has lost some hair from a burn or scalp injury

Permanent Hair Reduction

Laser hair removal is a procedure that uses a laser, or a concentrated beam of light, to get rid of hair in different areas of the body.
If you're not happy with shaving, tweezing, or waxing to remove unwanted hair, laser hair removal may be an option worth considering.
Laser hair removal is one of the most commonly done cosmetic procedures in world It beams highly concentrated light into hair follicles. Pigment in the follicles absorb the light. This destroys the hair.

Lasers are useful for removing unwanted hair from the face, leg, chin, back, arm, underarm, bikini line, and other areas. However, you can't get laser done on your eyelids or the surrounding areas or anywhere that has been tattooed.

Chemical Peels

A chemical peel is a procedure in which a chemical solution is applied to the skin to remove the top layers. The skin that grows back is smoother. With a light or medium peel, you may need to undergo the procedure more than once to get the desired results.

Chemical peels are used to treat wrinkles, discolored skin and scars — usually on the face. They can be done alone or combined with other cosmetic procedures. And they can be done at different depths, from light to deep. Deeper chemical peels offer more-dramatic results but also take longer to recover from.

Microdermabrasion

Microdermabrasion is a minimally invasive cosmetic procedure for your skin. A dermatologist provider uses a special instrument to gently exfoliate (sand away) the uppermost layer of your skin. You can get microdermabrasion on your face, neck, back, hands or chest.

What are the benefits of microdermabrasion?

• Age spots.
• Enlarged pores or blackheads.
• Fine lines or wrinkles.
• Mild scars, especially those from acne.
• Skin discoloration or uneven skin tone.
• Stretch marks.
• Sun damage.

Stretch Mark Removal

Stretch marks don't usually need to be diagnosed. Your health care provider might examine your skin and review your medical history. If your health care provider suspects an increase in your level of the hormone cortisol, you might be offered more tests.
The following treatments are among those available to help improve the appearance and texture of stretch marks. None has been proved to be more consistently successful than the others.

• Retinoid cream
• Light and laser therapies
• Microneedling

Botox and Dermal Filler

Botox and dermal fillers are both minimally invasive cosmetic treatments given through injections. However, they differ in that Botox freezes muscle and fillers add fullness.

Botox contains purified bacteria that freeze muscles. In doing so, Botox can help minimize the appearance of lines and wrinkles caused by facial expressions.

Dermal fillers contain ingredients that add fullness to areas that have thinned due to aging. This thinning is common in the cheeks, lips, and around the mouth.

PRP

Platelet rich plasma (PRP) is a substance that’s thought to promote healing when injected. Researchers have produced PRP by isolating plasma from blood and concentrating it. Athletes have been known to use these injections to help heal injuries.

Plasma is a component of your blood that contains special “factors,” or proteins, that help your blood to clot. It also contains proteins that support cell growth. Researchers have produced PRP by isolating plasma from blood and concentrating it.

The idea is that injecting PRP into damaged tissues will stimulate your body to grow new, healthy cells and promote healing. Because the tissue growth factors are more concentrated in the prepared growth injections, researchers think the body’s tissues may heal faster.