Fraxel® Laser Treatment Offers Patients Full-Body Solution To Restore Aging and Sun Damaged Skin

For patients who undergo a cosmetic procedure to reduce the telltale signs of aging, their face may look years younger but their untreated hands, neck, shoulders and chest often tell a different story. That's because in the past, there was no effective treatment to improve aging skin off the face. Now, the Fraxel laser, with its proven track record in fractional resurfacing of photodamaged skin, is being used successfully as a full-body resurfacing treatment.

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Reliant Technologies Hosts 50th Birthday Bash for Winners of National Contest to “Make 50 the New 40 with Fraxel® Laser Treatment”

Five women who turn 50 this year received the ultimate birthday gift – a free Fraxel® Laser makeover and a trip to New York City courtesy of Reliant Technologies, Inc., creator and manufacturer of the revolutionary Fraxel Laser. The winners will be flown to New York City for a November 17 birthday bash to celebrate their 50th birthday and show off their more youthful appearances

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The Miami Institute For Age Management & Intervention Among The First To Have Sinon & Burane Lasers.

Patients at the MIAMI Institute of Age Management & Intervention at the Four Seasons® Hotel & Tower will be among the first in the country to experience treatment of facial wrinkles, scars and brown spots with the SINON and BURANE XL lasers from WaveLight. Although new to the U.S, WaveLight is an elite established German brand known throughout Europe and Asia for innovative technology and ergonomic design, which provide a comfortable patient experience and excellent results.

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Cultura Cosmetic Medical Spa meets diverse Cultural Needs

Beautiful News for people of color: Cutting-edge research from Harvard Medical School and the University of Michigan shows that a wide range of safe and effective laser and skin care treatments are now available for ethnic skin. This medical breakthrough comes at a time when African Americans are choosing to undergo cosmetic procedures at an unprecedented rate - six percent.

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Spa Finder Announces Top Spa Trends to Watch in 2006

Spas are a fountainhead for new ways to live well -- where ideas in healing, beauty, fitness, diet and spirituality are allowed to evolve and cross-pollinate, resulting in innovations that have included aerobics, spa cuisine, the medical spa, home spa design, and detoxification programs.

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The Medical Spa at Nova Hosts Grand Opening Reception

Nova Medical Group, a fully integrated medical practice focused on optimizing health with a personalized approach to healing through collaboration with patients, today announced the grand opening of The Medical Spa at Nova, offering a new concept in wellness.

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Girl-Talk Vital to Female Cosmetic Patients

Like many women considering cosmetic treatments, 34-year-old Debbie found she had one final hurdle. “I just couldn't confide in a male doctor about how I felt ugly or insecure. After all, I'd spent my life hiding my personal phobias from men,” she said.

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Buttock Sculpting: Aesthetic Physicians Change The Bottom Line

Not since the days of the bustle has the fashion spotlight been so focused on shapely buttocks. Whether it's the influence of popular celebrities, cultural crossover or simply a response to fashion trends, lower body curves have made a comeback. Physicians are developing new gluteal sculpting treatments to address patients' desire for firmer, higher, rounder buttocks.

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Spa Finder Announces Top Spa Trends to Watch in 2006

Spas are a fountainhead for new ways to live well -- where ideas in healing, beauty, fitness, diet and spirituality are allowed to evolve and cross-pollinate, resulting in innovations that have included aerobics, spa cuisine, the medical spa, home spa design, and detoxification programs.

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Day Spa in Raleigh Voted One of America’s Best Spas

Blue Water Spa of Raleigh, NC was voted one of America’s top four medical spas. The results are published in the December 2005 issue of American Spa Magazine. This is the first annual American Spa Magazine’s Professional’s Choice Award. Blue Water Spa is the only spa in the southeast recognized with this prestigious award.

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Cosmetic industry begins to cater to the ethnic skin type

Ericka Dunlap, Miss America 2004, retired her crown last year, but she has not moved out of the spotlight. Her new career as a country singer still requires her to maintain a flawless complexion. So when acne flares up, she flies from her home in Nashville to Washington for treatment at the Cultura Cosmetic Medical Spa.

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MedSpaPress Launches News Website for Medical Spa and Cosmetic Medicine Industry

Until recently, when professionals in the medical spa and cosmetic medicine industries needed to locate the latest headlines from their industry, they had nowhere to go. That was when one frustrated owner of a medical spa practice management firm decided to gather the news and share it with others at MedSpaPress.com.

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Take advantage of this year's $105,000 Section 179 limit

With this year's Section 179 limit set at $105,000, you may want to purchase that equipment you were debating about. The benefit? Get your shopping done before December 31st, and come April, you can count your eligible equipment acquisitions in this fiscal year.

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The national rollout of Sculptra for Nu Image MedSpa

Sculptra, also known as the "liquid facelift," works by both filling in lines and wrinkles and by stimulating the body to produce new collagen and underlying tissue, thereby creating a fuller, more youthful appearance. Sculptra™ (poly-L-lactic acid) has been safely used outside the United States since 1999 in over 150,000 patients under the trade name New-Fill™.

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A Look Ahead

The more than 12,000 spa locations in the United States generate $11.2 billion in revenues. Trends point toward continued growth in the non-invasive esthetic and medical areas if spa professionals understand the needs of their clients and offer them what they want: to reward themselves, decompress, treat a condition or look and feel younger.

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