We are excited to announce a new treatment offering at DLVSC: the CellFX System from Pulse Bioscience, which was recently approved by the FDA for commercial use. After participating in the clinical trial, we will be one of the first practices in the world, and the first in the area, to offer this innovative treatment…
A GLOBAL REPORT Wendy Lewis investigates best practices to safely treat darker skin types Note: This article was originally published full on Prime and excerpts have reproduced here with permission. OUR SKIN COLOR IS DETERMINED BY A combination of anatomical and physiological phenomena that occur within the uppermost layers of the skin. Skin of color…
News ArticlesBy Susu Bear ScoopCharlotte, August 10, 2015 Versus “wanted” fat, right? Not in today’s world I’m afraid. The only places we want fat are the places it disappears from first. Ah well, that’s another topic for another day. Today’s word is Ultrashape. Our client Dermatology Laser Vein Specialists of the Carolinas is always up on…
News ArticlesBy Dr. Girish S. Munavalli, MHS ScoopCharlotte, June 24, 2015 It’s true, you can tell a woman’s age by the skin on her neck. The wrinkles and lines that form there are frustrating and nothing seems to help. Until now. Dermatology, Laser, & Vein Specialists of the Carolinas now has two of the newest in highly…
News ArticlesBy Gilly S. Munavalli, MD, MHS Charlotte HEALTH&FITNESS magazine, May 2006 According to the American Society of Plastic Surgery, Surgical cosmetic procedures increased 4 percent, with more than 1.8 million procedures performed in 2005. The top five surgical procedures were liposuction (324,000), nose reshaping (298,000); breast augmentation (291,000), eyelid surgery (231,000), and tummy tuck…
News ArticlesBy Gilly S. Munavalli, MD, MHS Charlotte HEALTH&FITNESS magazine, May 2006 What can you do about those stubborn love handles, the “turkey gobbler” under the neck, or that little bit of “junk in the trunk”? There’s plenty you can do about it. Liposuction is an incredibly safe, in-office procedure that can jump start a…
News ArticlesBy Gilly S. Munavalli, MD, MHS Charlotte HEALTH&FITNESS magazine, Aug 2006 It’s summertime again … time to enjoy the great outdoors with family and friends. It’s also time to prepare and protect against the sun’s harmful rays that inevitably will strike and turn us red and tan. Hopefully, we will all remember to use…
News ArticlesBy Dr. J. Blake Goslen, III More than one third of all cancers originate in the skin. The total number of skin cancers diagnosed in the United States annually has grown from 300,000 in 1977 to an estimated one million today. During our lifetimes, skin cancer will develop in one in five of…
News ArticlesBy Dr. Girish S. Munavalli, MHS Charlotte HEALTH&FITNESS magazine, January, 2006 More than half of the adult population ultimately develops a weakness in the circulatory system, which leads to varicose and spider veins. So… next question – what to do about it? No one knows the exact reason why the valves that push the…
News ArticlesBy Linda W. Lewis MedEsthetics, APRIL 2014 Physicians compare the merits of Botox Cosmetic, Dysport and Xeomin, as a new wave of toxins vies for approval. IS THREE THE MAGIC NUMBERwhen it comes to neurotoxins? It has been three years since the FDA approved Xeomin (Merz Aesthetics, xeomin.com), the third injectable neurotoxin to enter…
