Welcome to Our Plastic Surgery Skin Care Center
Tracy Thaden is a licensed aesthetician, certified medical assistant, certified nutraceutical consultant, and member of the Board of Directors Society of Plastic Surgical Skincare Specialists. She has devoted more than 20 years of her career to corrective skin care as well as to the skin care of plastic surgery patients.
Michelle Ordway has been a licensed advanced aesthetician for over 11 years and is a member of the Society of Plastic Surgical Skin Care Specialists. She combines impeccable skincare expertise with outstanding people skills. Michelle's personal challenge: To not only meet, but exceed her patients' expectations.
Clinical Care/In-Office Procedures:
We offer safe, in-office procedures to improve the clarity, tone, color, and texture of skin while requiring little or no recovery time.
The MicroPeel® is a three-part process that includes physical dermaplaning or enzymatic exfoliation, an alpha hydroxy acid treatment, and a cryogenic therapy session that involves freezing the skin. The procedure lasts about 45 minutes.
The MicroPeel Plus® is an enhancement of the basic MicroPeel® with an additional chemical exfoliation. The chemical exfoliation goes one step further in smoothing out fine lines and wrinkles and can even in some cases help even out skin discoloration.
The Pigment Peel Plus® is a skin care treatment designed to peel off a layer of skin within a week, revealing a newer, younger layer of skin from beneath.
The first step in a skincare regimen is to determine what type of skin you have. Before meeting with our aesthetician, you will be asked to complete a brief skin care evaluation form.
Home Care Product Lines:
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We offer an array of LaRoche-Posay, N.V. Perricone, SkinMedica®, Environ®, ProCyte®, and VitaMedica® products to personalize a skin care program that's right for you.
Obagi Nu-Derm System - Is a skin care system that transforms your skin at a cellular level improving your skin's appearance and health resulting in a younger looking you. Healthy new cells reach the skin's surface faster revealing smoother, better hydrated, and more evenly colored skin.
Obagi Condition & Enhance System - Using the Obagi Condition & Enhance System in combination with facial rejuvenation procedures provides you with the total package. This Obagi system is specifically designed to enhance surgical procedure results for the ultimate appearance of healthy, radiant skin. The system treats and improves the skin's appearance by focusing on the following:
- Sun damage
- Fine lines and wrinkles
- Rough skin
- Hyperpigmentation (discoloration)
- Erythema (redness)
- Sallowness (completion)
- Acne
- Future skin damage
LA ROCHE-POSAY / BIOMEDIC – is an advanced, physician-dispensed skin care program that offers solutions for a variety of skin types.
N.V. PERRICONE, M.D. COSMECEUTICALS – is nationally recognized for introducing skin care products containing Alpha Lipoic Acid, a powerful anti-oxidant that aids in protecting cells from damaging free radicals and aging.
SkinMedica® – provides a specialty skin care line to licensed medical professionals for their patients that heals, rejuvenates, and maintains the skin.
ENVIRON® – skin care is the result of one doctor's attempt to treat the melanoma of two young patients. The success of his early products led to the development of a full skin care line.
ProCyte® – is an innovative beauty product line dedicated to providing skin care products containing GHK and AHK, their patented copper peptide technologies.
VitaMedica® - high-quality, pharmaceutical grade supplements formulated to provide medicinal benefits for surgery, healing, and age management. Surgery supplements allow the patient to be proactive in their healing process. Age management supplements help patients maintain their results and look and feel their best.
PREVAGE MD – PREVAGE MD with idebenone, the most powerful antioxidant ingredient available, has been scientifically proven to be more effective in protecting against environmental stressors known to cause skin aging than any other topical antioxidant including kinetin, coenzyme Q10, vitamin C, vitamin E, and lipoic acid. Results from clinical studies with PREVAGE MD anti-aging treatment showed significant improvement in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles as well as improvement in skin tone and texture in only 4 weeks.
Skin types as defined by La Roche-Posay/BioMedic:
Environmentally Damaged Skin
Throughout life, everyone is exposed to the sun and other harmful skin irritants, such as air pollution, in varying degrees. This exposure, along with smoking, alcohol, medications, stress, and harsh weather conditions, leaves skin with a dull, dry, discolored, and lined complexion.
Hyperpigmented Skin is usually a result of photosensitizing agents or hormonal changes in the body, such as pregnancy and menopause. Excessive sun exposure and lack of sun protection can worsen this condition.
Potential Causes:
- You have had excessive sun exposure while taking certain medications (antibiotics, tranquilizers, diuretics, etc.).
- You have been using facial depilatories, bleaches, or waxing procedures to remove hair.
- You have been using over-the-counter acne preparations.
- You do not always use sunscreen when outdoors.
Prematurely Aged Skin sufferers must deal with decreased cellular turnover, where fewer new cells are replacing old ones. When dead skin cells do not shed rapidly, it results in a dry, dull, and wrinkled complexion.
Symptoms:
- Your dry, fine lines are beginning to deepen.
- Your skin looks older than you are.
- Your skin is no longer firm and elastic.
- Your skin feels thinner and is showing "spider veins" on the face and chest.
- You spent many years enjoying the sun without protecting your skin.
Acne Skin
Most people will suffer from blemishes and oily skin at some time during their teenage and early adult years. Although the presence of all types of acne can cause poor self-confidence, the severity of this condition can vary widely.
Acne-Prone Skin can be thought of as good skin that is out of balance. Worse yet, acne-prone skin knows no age boundary. In acne-prone skin, the sebaceous (oil) glands become overactive from internal factors such as the hormonal surge commonly signaling PMS, stress, diet, or external factors like pollution and sun exposure.
Symptoms:
- You are often told that your skin looks shiny.
- You have many undefined bumps under your skin and enlarged pores.
- You have sudden breakouts for no apparent reason.
- Your face feels unclean and greasy by mid-afternoon.
Active Acne Skin is genetic, but there are many factors that contribute to the severity of this type of acne, such as over-productive sebaceous (oil) glands, epidermal shedding dysfunction, environmental pollution, and stress.
Symptoms:
- You have many sore, undefined bumps under your skin.
- You suffer from cysts and pustules.
- You have blackheads on your nose, chin, and cheeks.
- You have breakouts on your back and chest.
Sensitive Skin
Sensitive skin can be defined as an abnormal skin response to various physical or chemical factors. Sensitive skin is much more affected by external factors than normal skin.
Intolerant Skin is affected by environmental stress, strong fragrances, preservatives, and certain topicals.
Symptoms:
- Your skin is sensitive to temperature change.
- Your skin gets red when eating spicy food, exercising, or in high-stress situations.
- Certain fabrics make your skin itch.
- Both skin care products and cosmetics have caused blotching, breakout, and rashes in the past.
Sensitized Skin is an acquired condition usually occurring after a cosmetic procedure due to the vulnerability of the delicate post-operative skin.
Symptoms:
- You are experiencing redness or discomfort from a cosmetic procedure such as a face-lift, laser resurfacing, or a chemical peel.
Dry Skin
Dry skin can be caused by a lack of natural moisturizers within the skin or by damage to the protective film that prevents moisture loss. How our skin feels is influenced by many factors – the weather, age, work environment, contact with certain substances, medication, frequent washing, or our genetic makeup.
Dehydrated Skin is basically normal skin that occasionally becomes dry and feels uncomfortably tight due to external factors. This discomfort can be greatly improved by using the right moisturizing product.
Symptoms:
- Your skin feels tight and chapped in certain weather conditions.
- Your skin is not scaling, itching, flaking, or burning.
Severely Dry Skin is usually caused by an existing skin condition and is most often recognized by scaling, itching, flaking, and burning. Extremely cold weather, harsh conditions, and several cosmetic procedures all cause trauma to severely dry skin.
Symptoms:
- You are suffering from xerosis and/or eczema.
- You have recently undergone a cosmetic procedure such as a chemical peel, microdermabrasion, or liposuction, and you are experiencing severe dryness.
Plastic Surgical Facial
We now offer a Plastic Surgical Facial. Each facial treatment begins with a skin evaluation and a discussion about what you would like to improve. Our Esthetician will then customize a 75 minute facial just for you utilizing our La Roche-Posay dermo-cosmetic products. Special care is taken to correct and balance your skin leaving your complexion glowing with heath. An integral part of the service is an upper body massage to help relax the soul and enrich your well-being. You'll love the feel and appearance of your skin. With proper home care, the results are lasting.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding a specific skin care treatment. We are available at 1-866-244-2556.
Contact Tracy Thaden of Dr. Zeff's plastic surgery practice in Stratham, New Hampshire (NH), for the best in skin care solutions and treatments today!
