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Four anti-ageing facial exercises you can do at home.

These simple facial massages and exercises will improve the circulation of your skin and, with more oxygen, skin cells will be able to repair damage more easily, thus also improving collagen and elasticity.

The Giraffe exercise

Good For: Reduce sagging skin & give a more streamlined swan-like neck.

Alternative To: Neck Lift

Step 1:  Look straight ahead and place your fingertips on the top of your neck.

Step 2:  Lightly stroke the skin down as you tilt your head back (not too far that it feels strained or uncomfortable).

Step 3:   Bring your head back down and repeat two more times.

Step 4:  Jut your lower lip out as far as possible, place your fingers on your collarbone.

Step 5:  Point your chin upwards, pulling the corners of your mouth down.

Step 6:  Hold for four deep breaths.

Rosy glow exercise

Good For: Increase collagen, elastin, circulation

Alternative To: Brighter and smoother cheeks

Step 1:  Using two fingers and your thumbs, pinch gently all over your cheeks for 30 seconds.

Step 2:  Do this regularly at night, when your body can work to repair cell damage in your skin too.

The ‘V’ exercise

Good For: Make your eyes look wider

Alternative To:  Eyes relax

Step 1:  Put both a middle finger from each hand between your eyebrows (above and to the side of your nose), with your index fingers on the outer corners of your eyes.

Step 2:  Look up and move your lower eyelids up, squinting.

Step 3:  Relax and repeat six more times.

Step 4:  At the end, squeeze your eyes shut for a count of ten seconds then relax.

Jaw Toner exercise

Good For: Release tension in the jaw

Alternative To: Face Lift

Step 1:  With two fingers and your thumbs, pinch up and down the jawline, stopping at your ears.

Step 2:   Repeat this three times, then using only your thumbs press smoothly up the jawline three times.

Extra tips to beat wrinkles and sagging skin

• Drink plenty of water before, during and after your exercise.

• Do the exercises wherever you are, lying down, sitting or standing.

If you're interested with the non-surgery facelift, please contact N-COG clinic to schedule a consultation to see what treatment would be best for you for facial rejuvenation.

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THREAD LIFT VS. FACELIFT: WHICH IS FOR YOU?

You have many options ranging from non-invasive to minimally invasive to an actual surgical procedure when it comes to correcting facial aging. While all these techniques are aimed at restoring youthfulness and rejuvenating the face, the results they offer are not equal and the procedures should therefore not be considered interchangeable. This is particularly important between thread lift operation and facelift operation.

Both the thread lift procedure and the facelift procedure improve the falling skin on the jowls, cheeks, and neck. Although they may treat similar signs of aging, they are not replacements for each other, and the difference between them goes far beyond the fact that one is minimally invasive and the other is surgery. While both of these procedures can make you feel younger and revitalized, they are each designed specifically for specific candidates. The hard part determines what may be right for your facial aging level.

WHAT IS A THREAD LIFT?

The thread lift improves the appearance of facial sagging and visible aging signs by using dissolvable surgical threads. These threads work to "lift" the underlying facial structure tissues affected by gravity and collagen loss. Once these threads are inserted and anchored, the production of collagen is stimulated and lasting results can be achieved. The thread lift is non-surgical, minimally invasive and gives your cheeks, jawline, and neck a natural rejuvenation. We like to tell patients that you will receive approximately 25% of the surgical facelift result with a thread lift.

HOW DOES FACELIFT SURGERY DIFFER?

Unlike the thread lift, which uses the insertion of threads to lift and tighten the underlying muscles mildly, facelift surgery removes excess skin from the lower to the midface while tightening the muscles significantly. Facelifts restore a younger look and can significantly improve falling jowls, vertical neck banding and volume loss in the midface. Depending on your needs, several levels of facelift surgery are available. These range from the "mini-lift" that focuses on early signs of aging in the jowls and lower face to the "deep plane lift" that rejuvenates the jawline, jowls, midface, cheeks, and neck.

WHICH PROCEDURE ARE YOU A CANDIDATE FOR?

Both of these procedures are suitable for people with realistic expectations for good physical health. Candidates with significant and noticeable aging indicators such as extensive falling, deep creases, jowls and falling skin under the chin are likely to be best suited for facelift surgery. Although the thread lift subtly reverses the early signs of aging, the correction level of traditional facelift surgery cannot be reached. Typically, the thread lift is ideal for younger patients with facial aging and skin laxity. These patients want to delay the need for surgery and fight the signs before they deteriorate.  This procedure is also best for patients who have already had facelift surgery, but who require a "touch-up" due to additional skin laxity.

Contact the N-COG clinic to schedule a consultation to see what treatment would be best for you for facial rejuvenation.

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Facelift or Botox? Which is right for you?

Today, there are many options to help those people transform their stories, by restoring their youthful appearance and regaining their confidence. Two of the most common are facelifts and Botox, and while both can have a significant impact, there are key differences between the two. Which is best for you? Let's take a look.

What is facelift?

A facelift is a surgical procedure that can remove excess skin, tighten skin and lift facial muscles or tissue. Sagging skin and deep wrinkles are problems that can be addressed by a facelift.

Facelift benefits

A facelift results more significantly and more visibly than injection treatments.

Because it is an operation, the results last much longer than other treatments (often for 10 years or more). Facelifts can deal with more serious problems than injections can.

Facelift drawbacks

Facelifts require anesthesia that carries additional risk to the patient.

The recovery time is longer than non-invasive treatments, as with any surgical procedure.  Patients may need two or more weeks.

With a facelift versus an injection, swelling and bruising are more pronounced. Stitches can also be present for several days.

What is Botox?

Botox is an injection treatment that relaxes the muscles of the face. It smoothes lines and wrinkles, including around the eyes and front and around the mouth.

Botox benefits

Botox is a minimally invasive injection because it is an injection. It's also fast, it just takes about 15 minutes for treatment.

After treatment with Botox, no recovery time is needed so that you can resume your normal activities quickly.

Botox may be a more cost-effective option than surgery, depending on the number of treatments.

The effects can last for three months or longer.

Botox drawbacks

Although the effects of Botox can last for months, they are ultimately temporary and may require additional treatment to maintain the benefits.

Side effects may include minor swelling and bruising, but maquillages are usually easy to cover.

Botox can't fix more important problems, such as falling skin.

Each face is different, and the goals of each patient are also different. It is important to discuss what you want to achieve and what is possible with today's treatments before choosing any cosmetic procedure. You can also visit our clinics (NCOG) and answer your questions by our professional doctors.

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What Results Can I Expect After The Face Lift? How Long Do They Last?

Nowadays, with the help of cosmetic medical science, everybody can maintain the same freshness and youthfulness of the face by lifting the face. However, what results can we expect after the facelift and how long do they last? 

After a PDO thread lifting procedure, your skin is lifted immediately, because the threads support the lifting of the skin in its new position. You may look slightly tighter than the final result, but you'll start to look much more natural in about 1 week.

The rejuvenating effects start after 1-2 months–better texture of the skin, firmer and smoother skin is noticed. During your procedure, your doctor may focus more on rejuvenating the skin or lifting the skin. The results will vary from person to person, depending on the technique employed.

The threads would have dissolved in about 9 months after treatment, but the results will continue for many more months. I recommend that the procedure be repeated 6- 9 months after the first procedure to allow a long- term outcome of up to three years.

You might be wondering should you go for a facelift or not! Probably you are not sure if you need it or not! NCOG can help you and solve your problems.

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PDO Thread Lift

Thread lifts used to contain surgical treatment and became related to undesirable facet consequences such as infections and thread breakage. However, the thread elevates method has radically changed. Most thread lifting techniques these days are non-invasive. While there are many different kinds of thread lifts, such as Silhouette Soft, the PDO thread carry is amongst the most popular today. The threads are made in South Korea and are one of the most usually performed pores and skin lifting tactics today.

What is the PDO Thread Lift?

The PDO Thread Lift is a therapy which lifts and tightens sagging pores and skin tissue, the use of threads made of Polydioxanone (PDO). The threads introduce them into the deeper layers of the skin. Once introduced, the threads produce 3 outcomes in the skin:

Instant Skin Lifting through mechanical effects

Cellular Renewal, through Collagen stimulation, and neovascularisation to improve skin texture, fine lines, and elasticity

Skin Tightening, by contracting fat tissue

About 6 months after the procedure, the PDO threads will disappear via easy hydrolysis (they are absorbable). The lifted facial contours will stay for about 3-6 months more, due to the cell rejuvenation effects. Your skin cells are influenced to produce new collagen, and new blood vessels to improve pores and skin microcirculation. At the equal time, the PDO threads motive the fats tissue to contract, producing a skin tightening and facial slimming effect.

How is PDO Thread Lift Done?

A PDO Thread Lift is a minimally invasive procedure. After numbing and infusion of local anesthetic, the PDO threads are inserted via sharp or blunt tip needles (called cannulas) into different layers of the skin. Once inserted, the threads anchor the pores and skin and lift it upwards. The excess threads are then reduced off.

Depending on the areas treated, the procedure takes 15-30 minutes. There is some discomfort during the procedure, but because of the improved techniques, my patients are experiencing less and less pain.

What Areas Can Be Treated with PDO Thread Lift?

The PDO thread lift is very versatile, allowing practically all areas of the face to be treated, including the:

Undereye area

Eyebrows

Crow’s feet (wrinkles around eyes)

Cheeks

Nasolabial folds

Naso jugal folds

Wrinkles around mouth

Jawline

Jowls

Neck

For more information about the PDO treatment and you need a consultant about this, visit our website link down below: https://www.ncog.sg/

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How is a face lift procedure performed?

Most face lift strategies revolve around the lower facial areas, for instance, the facial structure, cheeks and cheeks. A face lift can in like manner focus on the mid-face or the sanctuary. In a couple of techniques, progressively significant facial tissues may be re-positioned or settled to restore an inexorably vigorous shape. In various methodology, ejection or development of fat or other sensitive tissue fillers may be essential to achieve the best results. Today, a wide scope of methods exist with results that can be dependably strong, safe, and solid. patient's entrance focuses will depend upon the district of the face that is centered around and the proportion of advancement that patients require.

When the entry points are made, different degrees of 'undermining' of your skin is performed, and the more profound layers of patients confront are lifted. Undermining isolates the overlying skin of the face and neck from the muscles and tissues profound to the skin. This liberates or releases facial and neck skin so it very well may be re-draped toward the finish of the methodology, ensuring skin is smooth.

At that point, specialist will raise the skin from the sanctuaries, cheeks, and neck, and lift and reposition the basic connective tissue, evacuating abundance fat and skin. On the off chance that this method is performed related to a neck lift, the specialist will draw the neck muscles together, sewing them together at the mid-line to frame a solid sling of muscles that bolsters the whole neck and jaw. Specialist may likewise incorporate liposuction of the neck and cheeks. Facial inserts might be added to expand cheek or jaw volume.

At long last, specialist re-drapes the skin over the new fundamental structure and shuts the entry points with lines or potentially little metal clasps. Where required, seepage cylinders might be embedded. A cushioned, strong dressing is typically connected.The objective of N-COG Lift stylish plastic specialist and the whole staff is to enable patients to accomplish the most delightful and common looking outcomes, and to make patient's careful experience as simple and agreeable as could be expected under the circumstances.

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Face Lift

Also known as Rhytidectomy. A face lift is the most extensive way to deal with treating facial wrinkles and sagging caused by aging. The medical procedure changes in range from insignificantly invasive ‘lunchtime lifts’ to more extensive, complex medical procedure. A face lift evacuates excess skin, tightens basic tissues and muscle and redrapes skin on the face and neck. It can rectify midface sagging, marionette lines, jowls and a double chin, maintaining its reputation for being the 'gold standard’ for facial rejuvenation. Consistently, thousands of individuals experience fruitful face lift treatment and are satisfied with the outcomes.

When to Consider a Face lift

·        If you feel that your face does not reflect your young soul and energy level

·        If you discover that your facial sagging and excess skin is a social or career obstacle

·        If you show signs of facial aging yet at the same time have some skin flexibility

·        One day you look in the mirror and realize that time, gravity, sun exposure and heredity have taken a toll and you just don’t look like yourself any more.

Considerations

Pros

·        A face lift can enhance numerous areas of the face in one medical procedure

·        Can last for a long time or more and can make you to appear ten to fifteen years more youthful

·        Can recontour the neck and jawline better than to every single other techniques

Cons

·        A face lift won’t create a 'new’ you, only a more youthful version of yourself

·        There will be some downtime associated with this treatments

·        Contingent upon your age and skin type, you may need an secondary procedure later on

These are the main three pros and cons to weigh when considering about a face lift. In the event that you need to focus on what is unique to you, please consult with your specialist.

Are you a good candidate for a face lift?

These are some common facial characteristics that make you a suitable candidate for a face lift:

·        Saging skin in your midface as well as jawline

·        Profound wrinkles reaching out from your nose to the edges of your mouth (nasolabial folds)

·        Lines stretching out from each side of your mouth down your chin (marionette lines)

·        Facial fat (volume) that has fallen or is displaced

·        Sagging and loss of muscle tone in the lower face, resulting in jowls

·        A double chin, resulting from loose skin and excess fatty deposits under the chin and jaw

·        Wrinkled and sagging skin in your neck

On the off chance that you are in good general health, have an inspirational state of mind and reasonable desires, you are most likely a good candidate for this procedure.

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Advantages of PDO Thread Lift Procedure

You don't really need to go under the knife to achieve a natural-looking face lift. A non-surgical skin tightening procedure like PDO Thread Lift is an extraordinary option to delicately lift up drooping skin with insignificant to no downtime.

This minimally obtrusive procedure can improve the appearance of drooping cheeks, jowls, and neck bringing about a quick more tightly, more energetic and youthful look.

Thread lift involves the insertion of strong PDO threads in the deeper layers of the skin resulting to a prompt lift of the drooping areas. After some time, the inserted thread will then trigger the skin's self-healing process which stimulates collagen development and enhances the overall texture and appearance of the skin.

Here are some advantages of experiencing a PDO Thread Lift procedure:

1. Address Different Concerns and Patient Needs

PDO threads come in various sizes to address different concerns and accommodate the requirements of each patient. There are the thin mono thread, perfect for restoring volume and reviving the skin along the chin and cheeks.

There are additionally the stronger and thicker, bi-directional cog threads most appropriate for lifting sagging cheeks, jowls and neck.

 2. Safe and Gradually Absorbed by the Body

Facial restoration utilizing Polydioxanone or PDO is safe and does not produce allergic reactions. This K-FDA and CE cleared absorbable material has been used for a long time for shutting wounds in various medicine areas including plastic medical procedure, eye medical procedure, gynecology, and among others.

The PDO threads totally dissolve in the body within 6 to a year. It is processed in water and carbon dioxide, which the skin naturally absorbs.

 3. Keep the Skin Looking Plump and Youthful

Studies recommend that the utilization of PDO threads stimulates production of new collagen in the skin, which enhances the skin's elasticity and improves the appearance of folds and wrinkles.

This additionally invigorates the synthesis of elastin and hyaluronic acid in the skin, which are both basic in achieving a more youthful appearance and restoring the quality of the skin.

 4. Prompt Lifted Appearance after the Procedure

Patients usually obtain an immediate results and observe a noticeable lifting and skin tightening after the procedure. Remember, nonetheless, that the overall result will be seen following a few months when new collagen stimulation begins.

It takes around a half year for the PDO threads to dissolve yet the results will remain for no less than two years as long as the collagen of your skin holds the lift.

Going under the knife isn't the main viable approach to lift and revive droopy skin. Because of Thread Lift, you would now be able to achieve a tighter, more youthful look immediately and with insignificant to no downtime.