PBS - Non-Surgical Chin Enhancement
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Transcript of PBS Television Featuring Dr. Alexander Rivkin
HOST: A well defined chin gives you a distinctive profile.
If you don’t have the kind of chin you wish you did, there is a
non-surgical procedure that can change that. Here to explain is Dr.
Alexander Rivkin Medical Director of the Westside Medical Spa in Los
Angeles.
Dr. Alexander Rivkin: I call this procedure a non-surgical
chin enhancement. It’s a series of very precise injections to change
the shape of the chin to the patience’s preference. It is a
substitute for surgical chin enhancement which involves an implant
and general anesthesia and all of that kind of stuff.
This is a much easier and risk-free way of doing the same thing.
Actually, it’s a way of doing it better because the physician is
much more in control of where the injections are going - of what the
shape of the chin is going to be and it can be tailored to the
patience’s preference.
This procedure is an injection. It’s an injection of a filler
substance called Radiesse into the area of the chin. It’s much more
precise than a surgical procedure because you can expand just the
areas you that want to expand, and you can mold the chin and make
the chin into whatever shape you want.
The substance that I’m injecting is calcium hydroxylapatite – this
is a substance that’s been used in surgery for a long time as a
solid implant.
It’s similar in its effect to collagen, which means, when you inject
it into the deep layer of the skin, it lifts it up and plumps up the
skin and it stays plumped up. As a physician, I want to make sure
that what I’m injecting … There’s no allergic reaction, it’s non
animal based, it doesn’t get absorbed by the body and it doesn’t
move.
In the chin, it will last about two to two and a half years. [In
this particular case,] the patient is a male. When he came in, he
said he had a weak chin. He didn’t like his chin. He didn’t think he
had a masculine enough chin. He thought his chin was tapered down
too much and that it wasn’t really wide, and it made his face look
really round. He didn’t like that; he wanted more of a square face.
What I’d like to do is widen and square off his chin so it’s a
little more classically masculine looking. And then what I’d also
like to do, is project it. Right now, if you look at his profile,
his nose is fairly prominent, his chin doesn’t recede but it’s not
as prominent. His profile is out of proportion.
Now, when you look at his profile, his nose and his chin kind of
flow -- the reason it’s successful is because the patient has it all
under their control. They have a mirror in one hand and, as I’m
doing the procedure, I stop I ask, ‘OK look at this, tell me what
you think.. Are we going in the right direction? Do you think this
is good?’ And it’s all up to them.
That’s where the success lies. Success doesn’t lie in what I think
is perfection. Success lies in making the patient happy. When they
see themselves and they say, “Well this is what I really want to
look like.”
Success means achieving that goal. That’s what this can bring, and
that’s nice.
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