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For anyone unhappy with (dynamic) wrinkles, related to facial movements, Mind Your Skin offers BOTOX® (onabotulinumtoxinA) in Philadelphia and Havertown, the Main Line, and the wider Philadelphia area. Tough wrinkles may appear all over and seemingly out of nowhere. Many of them actually have a very specific cause: muscle activity. Repeated expressions, year-in-year-out, pull lines in the same position, and eventually, the folds show at rest. Women and men get smoother and more refreshed for months at a time with treatment that can be administered in the lunch hour or on the way home!
Jeuveau™, Dysport® and Xeomin® are at times available at lower cost compared to Botox 🙂 Botox Cosmetic® is no longer the one gold standard in the industry. And since Allergan/ALLĒ put restrictions on their reward program, these alternatives are worth looking at! We will be happy to review the options with you.
Xeomin is currently $50 off per treatment of 30 units minimum with a Merz coupon (we will assist you to obtain one), while supplies last! Jeuveau does $40 off, but this month $80 for first time registration (we will assist you), with another $80 at your next visit.
$65 off of Botox treatment through ALLĒ Click this link to redeem offer.
Norbertus Robben, MD, personally performs all of the BOTOX® and other treatments that are by injection. He has been doing this for 19 years. Training and experience make a difference! Mind Your Skin in Havertown and South Philadelphia, services communities in the Delaware Valley from Media to West Chester, from Bryn Mawr to Ardmore and Wynnewood. We have patients driving in from as far as Wilmington, Baltimore, Washinton DC and Boston, on their return visits to the area. Even patients that long since have moved out of state still structure their visits back so they can count on receiving their reliable results. At MindYourSkin, Dr Robben is providing the effective, long-lasting results you can expect from an experienced doctor specializing in nonsurgical cosmetic procedures. After all, you want it done right!
And please don’t believe that you have to buy “full syringes”, or 5 unit increments. Treatments are fully customized. Other approaches are cookie-cutter or misleading.
If muscle activity is the problem behind certain wrinkles, minimizing that muscle activity is the solution. BOTOX® Cosmetic, an injectable in the neuromodulator family, interferes with the proper transmission of nerve signals.
When the muscles rest, so does the overlying skin. After injection with BOTOX®, the targeted muscles stay more relaxed instead of receiving the message to contract fully. For a natural look, “less can be more” with judicious dosage and placement.
“My friends say to me I look so good I “don’t need BOTOX,” but [what they don’t know is] I have noticeable results with a refreshed and natural appearance.”
—S.C.
The FDA allows Allergan to manufacture and promote BOTOX® as a treatment for horizontal forehead lines, and glabellar frown lines (between the eyes). It also approved it for crow’s feet (“smile”, or “lateral canthal” lines) adjacent to the eyes.
Years of research and practical use by talented doctors have also led to other successful applications for BOTOX®. These include brow shaping, and raising a droopy brow, bunny lines on the nose, visible gum-line when smiling, and rough/dimpling chin texture (“pebble-“, or peau d’orange chin).
Excessive, uncontrollable sweating, better known as axillary (under-arms), palmar (hand palms) and plantar (feet bottoms) hyperhidrosis is yet another application.
Dr. Robben also uses BOTOX® (onabotulinumtoxinA) in Philadelphia, PA, Havertown, and Main Line, PA for smoker’s lines, nose-tip lift, contouring the masseter muscle (squared-off face), excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis) and more.
For more information on hyperhidrosis visit the International Hyperhidrosis Society Web Site at https://www.sweathelp.org
This link takes you to a representative treatment example for frown lines
This one takes you to a representative treatment example for forehead lines
This link takes you to a representative treatment example for crow’s feet
And this one takes you to a representative treatment example for axillary hyperhidrosis
After your complimentary consultation is through and you have decided on BOTOX®, the actual treatment will go quickly. Each visit has unique elements that depend on specific details, but generally involves only a few injections, completed in under 10 to 15 minutes. Expect the feel of a slight “pinch” with each injection, but little more in the way of discomfort.
There may be some soreness, redness, swelling, or an occasional tiny bruise at the injection site. These and other, similar side effects do tend to resolve on their own without intervention. A touch-up or ‘tweak’ may be done after a two-week interval, especially if this was your first treatment. But then we have an established pattern for you going forward!
The effect of a BOTOX® treatment will begin to become visible within a few days of the injections and kick in fully at 10 to 12 days. From here you can realistically expect the wrinkle-reducing results to last for three to five months. Throughout that time, activity in the treated muscles will be inhibited. However, as the effects wear off, these muscles will eventually contract normally again. The motion will return, and the related folds and lines eventually come back.
Something to keep in mind: Botox® and two of the other Botulinum toxins can induce an immune response in your system. As a result over time, you would become somewhat resistant. We can try and overcome this by increasing your dose (treating more often would make the issue worse). This is known as dose-creep and occurs in up to 14% of patients. We can also switch to Xeomin (incobotulinumtoxinA) which has never been reported to have this issue. The reason is explained in the link. Please bear in mind that it may take a few cycles to wash out your existing antibodies. As that process is allowed to take place, the Xeomin becomes more efficient and you may experience the response you initially got with your other botulinum product.
On an everyday basis, our Botox® price is $14 per unit.
There are ways to save on the cost of treatment. For patients who want to keep away their forehead lines, crow’s feet, and other wrinkles we offer long-term cost-savings. This is the Mind Your Skin Maintenance Program. With injection sessions scheduled at regular 3 1/2 – 4 month intervals, you maximize safe, reliable results to help you keep looking your best.
In addition, MindYourSkin and Dr. Robben has partnered with Allergan, the makers of Botox, and help you save through their rewards program named Allē. As of recent however, Allergan has made it very difficult to convert points to cash as used to be the case.
Go to www.Alle.com and start an account, if you don’t already have one. That will also work for Juvéderm®, Kybella® and Latisse®, as well as for various in-office treatments. Laser hair removal, microdermabrasion, chemical peels, skin care products, laser hair removal, Ultrashape® bodycontouring and more.
Late August, patients received an email from ALLĒ stating:
“This fall, we’re changing the way you use Allē points—giving them more value than ever before. You can use them on a handful of qualifying products and treatments from skincare to facial injectables, allowing you to get the treatments you love and those you’ve been wanting to try if appropriate.”
We were only made aware with three days to go that something was left out of Allē’s announcement. This is the fact that most of you will no longer get to exchange points for dollars as you have done in the past. Instead, points will accumulate but can only be used when they reach certain levels. And then only on specific Allergan skin care or services. This ‘enhanced program’ started Sunday September 30 at midnight!
Unfortunately, for most of our patients, Allē’s new program features will not result in any practical benefit. Unless there is a significant increase in spending first. Instead then, chances are that the points/dollars will permanently flow back to AbbVie/Allergan/ALLĒ. Please note: This does not apply to gift certificates.
We are just passing on this information. We have no control over the program. After years of working with ALLĒ however, we are very disappointed with their decision and the process.
Besides BOTOX® (onabotulinumtoxinA) in Philadelphia, meet the other members of the neuromodulator family: Dysport®, Jeuveau™, and Xeomin®. All have some unique properties setting them apart, but they function essentially the same wrinkle-smoothing way as BOTOX®. We are not convinced the treatment option Daxxify (daxibotulinumtoxinA-lanm) or ‘DAXY’ provides a better cost-benefit compared to the options (above) that we already offer.
Jeuveau™, Dysport® and Xeomin® are at times available at lower cost compared to Botox 🙂 . Botox Cosmetic® is no longer the one gold standard in the industry. And since Allergan/ALLĒ put restrictions on their reward program, these alternatives are worth looking at! We will be happy to review the options with you.
Xeomin is currently $50 off per treatment of 30 units minimum with a Merz coupon (we will assist you to obtain one). Jeuveau does $40 off, but this month $80 for those with a first time registration (we will assist you), followed by another $80 at your next visit.
Mind Your Skin also offers other injectables for addressing skin tone and facial contours. BOTOX® works out “dynamic wrinkles” because these are associated with skin movement caused by repetitive muscle activity. “Static wrinkles” develop under the influence of gravity, due to a drop in collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid levels. These wrinkles and folds require different cosmetic treatment to address. Dermal fillers, SkinVive and especially non-surgical skin-tightening serve to soften wrinkles that appear due to these age-related skin changes. In combination, neuromodulators and fillers help achieve what we refer to as the ‘liquid face-lift’.
Don't wait any longer to let us know how we can help you.
Mind Your Skin Laser & Aesthetic Medicine
2010 West Chester Pike, Suite 345
Havertown, PA 19083
1718 East Passyunk Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19148
Phone: 610-924-0800
Dr. Norbertus Robben and the Mind Your Skin team offer BOTOX®, Jeuveau™, Dysport™, Xeomin®, Juvederm® and other dermal fillers, Kybella®, laser hair reduction, IPL, laser skin tightening, resurfacing, and rejuvenation; laser vein treatments; vaginal rejuvenation; UltraShape®; VelaShape-III®, chemical peels; microdermabrasion; microneedling; and more for the Havertown and Philadelphia areas.
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