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Tumescent Liposuction, How it works
Those warmer, warmer, temps come in all right, well you know what today is Fat Tuesday and honour of Fat Tuesday we’re talking about how to get rid of that fat and many devices promises to they promise to reduce fat but none of them have the satisfaction rate efficiency, safety record as to Tumescent liposuction. Doctor Susan Schroder dermatologist at perfect skin dermatology is here to tell us how it works. So, thank you so much for coming today, My pleasure, happy Fat Tuesday. Happy fat Tuesday, no more fat, no more fat Tuesday, right, so tell us the difference between regular liposuction and Tumescent and how it kind of differs, okay so well liposuction is performed using small cannulas blunt cannulas that are tunnelled through the skin and into the fat and they remove tunnels of fat and it’s connected to a very powerful suction device but with the tumescent technique which was developed about 10 years after regular liposuction in the mid-80s we use a local numbing medication that’s infiltrated into the fat enlarging that fat and allowing us to do it so much more safely with so much more down so much less excuse me downtime, which is perfect because when you think liposuction you think giant bruises everywhere, you’re sore you know you see those videos on Instagram or the doctors just really go in and it looks very rough, and people are worried about the dangers of it too most people are completely safe but it is a little bit more risky to do it under general anaesthesia. Alright so tumescent is not under general aesthesia. Not yes, the Tumescent is just local. You are sedated a little bit it may be something to relax you but you are awake and we can stand you up and turn you around and make sure that there is nothing that’s missed and that you’re very even and its really nice result. Absolutely and so what I hear with that is less money because you’re not under the general aesthesia you don’t need an anaesthesiologist right so that also helps. So, what are the areas that can be treated because when I think full-body regular liposuction, I mean you could do the full body is the same with tumescent? It you’re really limited about how what limits you excuse me is how much aesthesia we can actually give you. When I say anaesthesia, I am talking about numbing medication, okay you, okay you could overdo that as well. So, what you just will do certain areas but the areas that can’t be treated are you know the lower legs the calves the thighs the hips the abdomen. We can even reduce breast size with liposuction with just tiny little incisions without the traditional yeah, wow, yeah chin cheek and jowls people that are heavy through here this causes a really nice lift and some controlled fibrosis, so you really do have some tightening through here and these are it’s very little downtime most of my patients if we do it on a Friday, they’ll feel tired through the weekend because this is surgery even they only have tiny little incisions and you may feel somewhat tired when you go back to work on Monday but it’s you know that’s it you’ll be a little tired but you’re, you’re, really ready to go back and you know be in their regular world. You know and I’ll feel a little tired for a banging body you know, absolutely, especially before summer just a couple of days, yeah, but you know if someone wants to invest in something like this, right, it’s not as expensive as they think but are the results permanent. They absolutely are permanent. You have two times in your life when you actually produce fat stores and so if, if, ou’re prone to gaining weight in the thigh area for instance, we go in there and we tunnel and we remove some of those fat cells, you’re not I can’t tell you that you’re never going to gain weight again if you don’t exercise and you’re not eating correctly you’re going to gain weight but it’s not going to be in the areas that we treat those fat stores are going to be permanently removed. That is awesome maybe it’ll get you to the gym feeling a little bit more confident right because you’ve already shed some, some, layers there some, some, inches. All right so let’s talk really quickly about the difference in anaesthesia we kind of mentioned it you just put numbing medication underneath right that expand those fat cells. Right so it’s actually in normal saline bags kind of IV bags that you might see in a hospital and we dilute we use anaesthetics and it’s a connection of not connection it’s a combination of lidocaine and epinephrine and some something to make it less stinging as it goes in, and we infiltrate this into the fat and it does blow it up temporarily, but if we let it sit there. It’s just like what we would use to do a skin biopsy, just a local anaesthesia. That’s perfect so that’s how it could be less invasive less expensive which is amazing so more affordable for everybody out there and you know one question that we didn’t get to was how does it compare to the non-invasive methods and I know we had talked beforehand about those, those, feet free the ones that freeze off or that heated off. They just can’t get the inches that you can and, and, that is not going to you know that could come back with you know liposuction with tumescent it’s you know definitely those fat stores are gone, right? Most patients actually watch the little the, the, container where the fat comes out because it’s so satisfying to see that it’s actually leaving your body. Exactly you could see how much weight you lost right, yeah, we could with the Kos we could be so much more precise. I’d mentioned we do ankles we can sculpt arms that’s a little bit more difficult to do if you’re using a machine and this is a one-shot deal, all right, with those non-invasive machines. It’s usually a number of treatments and it ends up being about the same costs. Most liposuction procedures that we do in our office started about three thousand dollars right yeah most are under six thousand. So, it’s between depends on how much we’re removing and how many areas we’re doing. A lot more affordable I think than people think especially when you’re looking at CoolSculpting or the heat, you’re looking at spending the same because you have to do a series of like you know three to six. Well doctor I want to thank you so much for coming on this morning and educating us we could get that birth perfect summer body here on Fat Tuesday so for more information you can go online to perfectskinderm.com
Sunscreen Updates
Well, May is skin Cancer Awareness Month and joining us to talk about the importance of sunscreen is dermatologist Doctor Susan Schroeder from perfect skin dermatology. Thank you so much for joining us today. You know we were talking a little bit beforehand it. We kind of get, you know, our audience is probably pretty savvy knowing that at this point we need to protect ourselves against the sun. We’ve heard enough about it, but especially here in Colorado, right? Okay, well the number one thing is you, you, absolutely need it, there’s no, no, ifs, ands, or buts about that you know it is we sunscreen every time that there’s actually daylight out, you’re actually getting UV exposure. So, you think 5 minutes here 5 minutes there, there are no free calories in some in sun exposure, every single thing counting as a accumulative. Okay, but I know vitamin D is so good for our bodies though, yes. Are we still going to get that if we’re using that sunscreen, you know, like oh, Just a little bit of vitamin D first, you know Before I put my sunscreen on. You know, and I have so many patients that says, you know I, I’m not going to get vitamin D or I’m low in vitamin D and there is a synthesis in the skin that takes place where it converts that vitamin D to the state that we needed it and but we’re finding that studies show that if you use sunscreen, you’re not negating that at all. You’re not, you’re not causing that not to happen, but there are a couple things I wanted to say, you know people love being in the sun because I think it’s just pretty well accepted that you look healthier with tan, and you look like you’re in shape and feel better, feels good to lay in the sun. It even has some anti-inflammatory properties such as it’ll help clear acne and psoriasis. I shouldn’t be saying these things, but you know, there’s some things that are, we think are, are, good about it, but really, the negative points the sun exposure truly outweigh the bad because your risk of skin cancer is significantly increased as well as premature ageing. Right, and we don’t want to prematurely age. We don’t want skin cancer. That’s why we’re talking about it this month because it’s skin cancer awareness month. But you know, I grew up in Wisconsin, and I feel like the sun is a lot heavier here in Colorado. Do we have to worry about it, you know, being higher up in the mountains? It it absolutely is more difficult, we are I don’t know if you know this, but we are Number 2 and incidents for skin cancer, out of all of the US states. Hawaii is the only one vote ahead of us. That really surprises me, I thought Florida and California would be ahead of us, Yeah, but it’s because of our very sunny days, about 300 a year, and then our outdoor lifestyle and also the altitude and the higher up you are, the more UV exposure you’re actually going to receive. I think there’s some slides that may be circling through it, show that. Yeah, Oh yeah, they’re going to be popping up here, but so living in Colorado Springs a little over a mile, you’re going about 25 percent more UV exposure than you would if you were living at sea level Breckenridge, Vail, about 50 percent and if you’re climbing fourteeners, you’re getting 75 percent more exposure than you would at sea level. Oh my goodness. I know. Alright, scary. Right so what do you recommend to your patients, because I’m sure they want to get out there. They want to enjoy the sun. The fourteeners and all that stuff, but they should be worried about sunscreen as well, because, Right, they’re not all created equal, right, exactly and you know that that’s something that’s actually changed a little bit over the years. Traditional studies show that we should be using a 30 SPF sunscreen in all its exposed areas, and those studies that show that that was efficacious used a massive sunscreen that were so thick that nobody in real life would really do that. So as dermatologists we are recommending 50 at this point to use on a daily basis. Now if you’re like you or I we’re, we’re in the office all day and we’re just, you know, walking to the parking lot or going out to lunch in our breaks. Putting it on once, it’s fine, but if you’re outside a lot, if you’re hiking, if you’re skiing, if you’re doing things outdoors, you need to reapply every two hours because the sun does break it down. Okay, all right. Make sure to reapply. I always knew when you go in the water you need to reapply but you need to reapply, yes, even if you’re just, you know, just throughout the day because it’s breaking it down, right, We don’t have time to touch on wavelengths. Okay, so we’ll have to do a Facebook live unless do you, can you do it really quick, Yeah, I can. I wanted to talk about, I want to talk about, I want to talk about physical and chemical sunscreens because that’s a big deal right now in the in the News, Okay, there are some chemical sunscreens that are causing concern that they might be causing harm to. The coral reef and there are some studies that show that it shows up in body fluids, tissues of people and, and, it’s, it’s, alarming. We dealt with; the jury is really out on that. We don’t know that yet. It’s usually oxybenzone, but there are four different chemicals that. They’re looking at differences between two sunscreens are chemicals they absorb into your skin and then they neutralise the harmful effects of the rays, whereas physical sunscreens such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, they actually sit on the skin surface and they cause the rays to bounce off and so to be safe, yeah, it’s a better thing to use. That’s what the surface have, with the white nose. So well, to learn more about perfect skin dermatology, from our, at Doctor Susan Schroeder go online to perfectskinderm.com and she is always willing to explain this. That’s what I love about you. You know someone comes into the office and they have questions, you were always willing to take the time to talk to them. Thank you, So, thank you for coming on. Yeah, it is fun, alright, well now. Thank you. It’s fun.
The true bridge between injectables and a facelift
Well aging does not have to be a dreaded process. It can be exciting especially when you have the right techniques to help you looking radiant and not a day older. Doctor Susan Schroeder is here this morning with a procedure that is all the talk and it’s a wonderful for wonderful thing for tightening skin looking younger and there’s not much downtime. So good morning doc thank you so much for joining. Good morning. So, tell us a little bit about this so it’s an it’s an energy device right so it’s unlike any other. That’s correct. So, we’ve had energy devices for about15, 16, 17, years. Thermage was the first one, for Thermage was radiofrequency and it was basically energy that was delivering to the skin, when it gets into the, the, deeper levels of the skin, it’s converted to heat. It denatures which kind of messes the collagen up a little bit so that it has to basically heal itself and produce more. Oh, okay so it’s encouraging your body to, to, do that okay but, right, things like that older, older, techniques that are 15 years old. Yeah, probably aren’t as gentle on your body, and I well and I had that a number of years ago. I was very excited about it and it was a little bit of a letdown and the reason what yeah because about 33% of patients really had a wow result and then another 33% of patients you’d look and if you looked at the before and afters, you’d say oh well I think I can see a difference but it really is it worth spending you know kind of money, Yeah, to do that and then the other third didn’t have any result at all and it’s very tough as a patient and also as a physician to not have any results. You feel like you failed and you did everything right but we couldn’t figure out why some people were responding and others were not, Okay, and then there were other ones that came along like Tighten, you may have heard of and symphony and the symphony uses UV no actually tighten I think as UV light to tighten and then and then Ul therapy is more recent which is ultrasound, it goes a little deeper but again I really feel that all of those were falling short. Okay, I’ve used many of them and I wasn’t impressed. Okay, so this one we’re talking tightening, Yes so, I think my stretch mark, yup, my maybe my arms at aren’t as muscular, yup. Used to be so we’re can we use this early, what does it do? So, you can use it there are FDA approvals for it and then there are other things that we do that are off-label. So the main place to use it is the neck and the lower face but you can also use it on the lower eyelids, you can use it on the forehead, you can do it on the arms and the elbows and the knees and the buttocks and yeah alright and we’ve got some pictures necklace yeah no this is one in treatment this is it Wow this is in place of like a lower neck lift or you know liposuction or something like that which you know convicted to be really invasive procedures this is the perfect bridge between fillers and Botox and a facelift and I’ve been looking for that and we do have other things like Lutronnic micro needling which is great for acne scarring, really good for a laxity the neck just kind of creepy texture, right, but this is a huge lifter and what’s so amazing about it the reason that it works so much better than everything else is that now after 17 years of research, we have determined that if you treat at 67 degrees Celsius and you do a long pulse, so I’m not talking one of those fraction of a section, second, section of a second I get what you are saying, second devices, it’s in your skin for three or four seconds, so that long pulse and always delivering at 67 degrees and these needles are bipolar. So, they’re recalibrating all the time in order to may always make sure that they’re delivering that device. You will double your collagen and you will increase the elastin, the elasticity of your skin by five times and no other devices even ever address, that before. Wow, so this is a game changer okay, all right so we saw some of these before-and-after treatments and we talked about the places that we could use it but you know what is what’s the downtime because that’s what always worries me when I think you know lasers or something like that an in-office procedure you’re looking at downtime or you know you’ve got some scars that you have to wait to heal, right ,what is this one, okay, well I had it about three and a half weeks ago, okay, so I’m still it takes about three months to see the results but I have no downtime, downtime, now but still nobody wouldn’t want anything for three and a half weeks that’s a long time. When I did it, I was swollen for the first and second day, okay, look on a plane with it I mean I wasn’t ridiculous it didn’t look like a monster but You did not look like sleepy right? Right exactly when I wake up, I think I have a little bit fooling like that right is that right looks like it’s nothing that anyone would notice. No, you’re not bloody you maybe a little bruised but that’s something that you can cover with makeup it’s usually just minor bruising, okay, and I would say by about eight days I looked pretty much back to normal, like I could go to a cocktail party and be okay with that, but it’ll keep tightening over three months and that’s when you see the final result that’s amazing. That’s six months, but actually but you’ll see a real result in three and then yeah. Three- and six-months wow. Yeah, doctor I want to thank you so much, and oh it last two to three years the other ones only less like a year to 18 months. Oh my gosh, this is a two- or three-year treatment, yes, and then most people at that point will get they’ll either go to a facelift, right, or they will get a smaller like a touch-up procedure with this profound. Well, I think if anyone is interested, they should definitely come and check it out so this segment is sponsored by perfect skin dermatology. So you can head to perfectskinderm.com for more information about profound like the doc has on her cut right here. It really is a great procedure if you’re looking for something that doesn’t have a lot of downtime. You’re tightening those areas it’s really great 17 years of technology come to fruition today. Well don’t go away because after the break.
Neurotoxins: Botox, Dysport, Xeomin, and Jeuveau
Welcome back to living local. The time right now is 9 30 and most of us have heard this name by now but Botox, yeah, and did you know its origins, how it works, or the newer options, more contemporary treatments. Well, here to inform us all about it is Doctor Susan Schroeder and she joins us from perfect skin dermatology and we’re talking neurotoxins because Botox is a neurotoxin, right? Right, it is a neurotoxin. It’s derived from botulinum or Botulism. It would be the infection, but it’s only the toxin. It’s the toxin that is produced by the bacteria. So, you’re not actually putting bacteria or you know, infection into your skin. You’re just using the toxin that is actually toxic to the nerve endings, temporarily. Okay, so kind of like how we found penicillin, mouldy bread, you’re not eating the mould, you’re not making yourself sick, you know we’re just using you know piece of it to to cure something else, right? Absolutely, this has been around since 2000. Well, it’s been around since before 2000, but cosmetically, we’ve been having the we had the FDA approval in 2002 for it. It was interesting how so, how it actually spanned from a medical use to cosmetic. There is a husband-and-wife team, Alistair and Jean Carruthers, and they live in Vancouver, Canada and he’s a dermatologist, and she’s an ophthalmologist and I think it was a dinner one night. She came home and she was treating Buck Blepharospasm which is basically a twitching, it’s a voluntary and involuntary twitching of the eye with Botox and a patient had come back and said, can you feel a little bit more around here, because it really helps my wrinkles. She went home and told her dermatologist husband and that is how this transpired. That is so funny. Yeah, all right. But you know what we are showing another picture up here of something that isn’t Botox, so there’s more than just Botox on the market. Sure, right? Yeah no. So, Botox came out in 2002 and then we had Dysport very similar molecule and then we had Xeomin thereafter, and more recently in the last two months, we’ve had juvo. So, there are four different options. It’s sort of like Coke and Pepsi and RC Cola and Right? You know just different, your preference right, exactly okay, so is this is something that we normally think of to help with some wrinkles. But tell us kind of how it works because you don’t want to overdo it. You don’t want that surprise Jack Nicholson look, right? Right, Yeah, you know, so it was first FDA approved for the glabellar complex, which is basically the elevens, right here the frown lines but then we’ve started to expand its uses and we use it to relax the horizontal lines across the forehead, the crow’s feet. Those are the most common areas, the upper face, but we’ve had it for over 20 years, almost 20 years now and with time there is some atrophy that occurs if you keep treating those muscles over and over again and there tends to be when you have this area with few signs of ageing and the rest of the face is still ageing, there’s a disconnect. So many of us. That do use this on a regular basis are thinking about it differently and approaching it differently, and we’re doing less in those traditional areas, and we’re spreading it to other areas of the face to define a jawline to make you less square here, if that’s your preference, to treat lines in the neck to give you a little bit of an upturned lip, to really bring that whole more youthful face into focus. Right, Okay, and it’s, a more natural, a more natural look, and I’ve actually I’ve gotten it here you’ve actually given it to me here because I grind my teeth so much that my jaw muscle almost it almost hurts, so it’s not just right, Just cosmetic, right, Correct, I mean he started it said you know, for eye twitching, so it started with non-cosmetic but I mean I don’t think people realize that it can help with you, do it up here. Can help with headaches migraines, sweating, around here yes, in the armpits you do, yeah, it’s for sweating and then yeah, here, I mean you’ve, you’ve, saved me because, I was getting like ear pain. It was hurting so bad, but the thing about Botox is you don’t have to do too much, no, like you were saying, just a little bit, but there’s things called, you know, micro toxin and bro taxing for guys, exactly, yeah, Right, so you know, really you use it long enough and you get comfortable with it and it’s more like a paintbrush like if one eye is a little bit bigger than the other I can straighten that out, I can even up the eyebrows it gives you a new shape that way, we can, you know, define the jawline. There are all kinds of great things you can do with it but yeah, micro-Botox is or micro talk. Excuse me is where we really dilute out that that toxin and we give it to you in very fine blob at the surface of the skin and it changes your texture. It makes it more smooth. It makes your pores smaller, so yeah, yeah, and who doesn’t love that because as women in my family age, the pores right here become like craters. It just happens, alright, well, Doctor Schroeder, I want to thank you so much for your time this morning you know you are definitely an artist and you want to trust you know who is going to be using Botox on your face. I think you should definitely give Doctor Schroeder, a call. You can see that address is up there. If you want to give her a call at 719-4217. 132 Or you can also follow perfect skin dermatology on Facebook. Living look we’ll be right back after the break.
Vampire Facials at Perfect Skin Dermatology
Microneedling is something, it’s a procedure that is designed to induce new collagen formation and to remodel the skin. It’s, it’s, great for acne scarring for people that are worried that their students becoming more dull. It’s a little more LAX. They’re losing collagen. They’re developing wrinkles. People that have what we call dyschromia or brown spots and just a discoloration of the skin. It’s good for that as well. This is a procedure that, as I said, it’s been out for about 10-15 years. So, in this instance we developed, we delivered PRP platelet rich plasma, which contains which is activated growth factors and it will, in addition to making those micro channels to deliver those products, you’re actually causing controlled damage, which causes your skin to activate, healing cascades, healing processes, and lay down new collagen. It’s a controlled remodelling. So, most people will see some improvement with just one. You’ll see a brightening of the skin, more of a glowy complexion, smoother complexion, but it just depends on how much remodelling you want to do. People that are really trying to reduce wrinkles or acne scarring will want to do three or four perhaps once a month or so, so to get to induce those, those, changes. Those changes will continue for six months after treatment. The, the, skin will continue to remodel. We do have patients that love the results that are happy with the way they turned out with the micro needling and then they will do one treatment maybe once a year or every six months just for maintenance.
Dermalinfusion overview
Mia Atkins started a dermal infusion treatment at perfect skin dermatology which exfoliates and extracts and infuses your skin let’s check back in with her this last time and see how glowing her skin is, hey Mia, hey Maria yeah, I’ve got kind of a calming mask on now because the, the, process is done and I’m feeling pretty good but all right if you guys get easily grossed out, look away from your screen right now because we’ve got a jar of everything that came out of my skin. Did you see that, this is the waste jar, oh my god, so when, when, she’s doing that on my skin everything is going into this jar right here? Right, right. So, it’s it is a little bit of vitamin C. So, it’s going to be a little yellow but it’s cloudy. So that’s just all the debris that we that’s come off of your skin. Wow, okay so that was a pretty fast process so tell me a little bit about you know the time that you need to a lot for coming in here or the dermal infusion and just how and I mean how it all works. So, this could be done over lunchtime obviously I would say 45 minutes maybe an hour if you really, really, leisurely, but the actual treatment takes about 25 30 minutes or so. Yeah, it was really fast. Yeah, and so people want to know how often to do these things they’re great right before an event like high school graduation or a special date or a black-tie event but we do have a lot of patients that do them monthly, that they come in I have something called a VIP a VI Club, VIP club, excuse me and this is one of the things that you can choose as part of that Club monthly, oh wow, house you can come in and get something every month. Exactly, so the price of this is a hundred and seventy-five dollars but if you’re doing the VIP club it is less expensive. That’s amazing, Yeah, okay and so you’re saying like for the upkeep of people are going to come in and do these regularly, it was like four to six weeks that this can, exactly, kind of last and the results will show? You’re going to have major hydration and glowing for about three days but it is going to last for a couple of weeks. So, we actually see 70 percent improvement in hydration and plumpness of your skin, Wow, after this treatment for and for 72 hours after and then after that it starts to wane a little bit. That is so amazing, alright so if people are interested in coming in and trying this out how do they book an appointment. So, you can go online to learn more www.perfectskinderm. Com or you can call us seven one nine four two one seven one three two. Perfect. We would love to see you, and then where is this location at? So this is right by the World Arena on Cuchi, it’s one two five nine Lake Plaza Drive. Wonderful thank you everyone so much for helping me this morning I feel so amazing and like we said I have a date night with my puppies tonight. So, I’m going to be looking nice and good for my dogs tonight. So, thank you guys so much for my dinner at home because I won’t be going anywhere but I think, you could just touch your skin, yes exactly. I’m just going to be looking in the mirror all night, so thank you guys so much for tuning in out here perfect skin dermatology, come on out here and get a treatment for yourself we’ll toss it back to you guys, Mia, I thank you so much.
Dermalinfusion explained
We’ll have perfect skin dermatology they have a large variety of services from medical, surgical and cosmetic and that is where we find Mia Atkins live at their location today and she is about to have one of those services done, Mia, I’m a little jealous, would be getting done? Oh, you guys, this is a glorious morning out here perfect skin dermatology. I am about to get a dermal infusion, so why don’t we get it started and you kind of walk me through what’s happening here? Okay, sure, so this is Alisa. Hello and this is the silk peel dermal, dermal infusion machine and Alisa has handpiece there. As I was saying, it’s not these loose crystals that we’re using. We are using these little diamond phrase tips. You can’t see it I know it’s a little too small, but it’s basically a tip. These are sterilizable and they have diamond chips in them, so very fine diamond dust and their different levels this some are for a more sensitive skin and some are for more aggressive treatment so those are put on the end of that. Alright, Alright, and then what we do, I am going to, okay, and then what we have also here is that different from a regular microdermabrasion, we actually infuse different solutions into the skin and we customise this. So today let’s so we’re doing a customization of first, we’re going to do a hydrating serum, yes, I have very very dry skin and then the vitamin C, and we are going to do Vitamin C after that, but we also do, for instance, for acne we do uh oral clarifier, which actually really cleans out your pores, and we have a skin brightener which is great for people that want to you know, reduce wrinkles, give the skin if their skin looks dull, it gives them a more bright appearance, okay, and so, while we’re doing this for lack of a better word, sanding exfoliation, we’re also infusing this into this, perfect, all right, So we’re running out of time here, so why don’t we get it started a little bit and show everyone how it works, and then we’re going to be checking in throughout the show to see how it’s going so then you just start up the machine here and then, and I will start off with your neck, you start with the neck, okay, and I do one pass, okay, This is very interesting. I’ve never done anything like this before, so, there we go, that sounds kind of funny too so. That’s alright. Here we go. Oh wow, I see what you mean about the sanding. That is kind a hard. Right, but you’re not. It’s not painful though, you have all these crystals all over but, but this one is has, no crystals in it, No, and there’s virtually no downtime. It’s going to feels smoother than it’s ever your skin is pretty darn good, You’re beautiful. Well, it’s going to be great after this you, and but guys, no immediately, we could go out to lunch, alright perfect alright, you guys. Well, we’re going to be checking in throughout the show so you can see how it’s going and then at the end of the show we will show you how my skin looks, so we’ll. Toss it back to you, guys. For now, I am going to lay back and relax. Oh, hard day at the office today. Mia hard day.
Introduction on Dermalinfusion
When it comes to your skin, you should have a dermatologist with years of experience and passion for their work. That’s exactly what you get at perfect skin dermatology. Yeah, Mia Atkins is out there getting pampered this morning. She’s live on location. Mia is going to show us everything they have to offer. Mia a we are jealous. How are you this morning? I am really good, I don’t know if you guys saw that first tease we did, but I’ve already done a little face mask this morning and, uh, facial steaming. So that was all in preparation for the treatment. I’m going to be getting just a little bit later but first I am talking to Doctor Schroeder, she is in charge here. She is doing all these treatments. So, thank you so much for talking with me today, thanks for coming here today. It’s a great way to start off the day isn’t it. Yeah, it really is. I feel like I’m really. I do it every morning. There you go all right well. First off, can you tell us a little bit about some of the stuff that you have to offer here. Sure, would we. I am a dermatologist and I practise medical, surgical and cosmetic dermatology but I do specialise in surgical and cosmetic. I did a fellowship training in it. Okay and I actually used to teach it at the university. Wow, so medical, I think most people are aware. Alright, acne, eczema and psoriasis and skin cancers you know hair loss, nail problems, surgery, we do a lot of surgical excisions from moles, cancers, scar revision, cysts, you seeing, Doctor Pimple, Popper we, Did that, Yes, Okay, I don’t like to. I don’t like to be quite as; you don’t like to broadcast. Yeah, yeah exactly and then we do a lot of cosmetic and when I’m saying cosmetic, we do everything from, what do you need to put on your face? That’s actually really going to work for you, that’s not just snake oil, Right, all the way up to more invasive surgical lifts, Okay, so, so, everything in between, so we’re talking about injectables, Botox, Dysport Xeomin, the new juvenile. Right? I don’t know if you’ve heard of that. Juvo is whether this is the new neurotoxin that’s coming out? Okay, Fillers we do. We do Kybele, we do sclerotherapy, laser treatments. Oh my gosh, Yeah, liposuction, yeah, very cool. Really quick, let’s take a little walk around your space, Sure, because this is my first time in here. Yeah, you have a lot going on, so what do we have over here? Okay, so over here this is right off of the waiting room but it’s our alcove of Cosmeceuticals. These are handpicked by myself and also by Cheryl. We really look at these long and hard. We look at all the clinical studies behind them to make sure that you are actually, really going to see, see something in your skin. Okay, most of these products you’ll see results within three months, some of them even within a month you’ll see results. Wow, but they really do work. That’s amazing, and so they’re, they’re, different, you know, not everybody gets the same thing. It’s something that we customise. Okay, yeah and then you’ve got a nice little seating in area in here to make it feel nice and homey. Yes, lots of magazines, we’ve got our front desk over here. Yeah, this is much nicer than my house. Yeah, seriously, I can hang out in here read a book. This is amazing. All right, well when we come back can you tell us a little bit It’s the, the, dermal infusion that I’m going to be having this morning. Right, so you’re going to be having a dermal infusion, and most people know about microdermabrasion, which is basically saying it’s sandblasting your skin, gently. It’s aluminium oxide crystals that propelled against your skin and then sucked up. What you’re doing is a HydraFacial, which is just the new generation of microdermabrasion. We don’t use those crystals, it’s more of a fine diamond grid that has different, different, levels of intensity and then we also infuse special nutrients into your skin to really improve it, not just using that. Alright, we’re going to get started on that right when we come back and you’ll tell us a little bit more. I’m going to go get prepped and ready and when we come back. I’ll be over there back on the table getting started on my dermal infusion. Back to you guys. All right sounds good. Mia perfect skin dermatology is at 1259 Lake Plaza in Colorado Springs. They are open Monday through Thursday from 8:30 to 4:30 and Fridays from 8:30 to 1:00 o’clock. You can give them a call at the number you see here. That number is 719-421-7132 again.
What You Should Be Using on Your Skin
to Prevent Aging
Welcome back to living local everybody time right now 9:18 a.m. And you know what North America holds the largest share on anti-aging market. Nearly 60 percent of the global market in 2014 that’s right the US population spent over eight point five billion dollars on cosmetic procedures. As far as products sold to combat age fifty percent of the products but are related to anti-wrinkle solutions. So anti-aging big big business and there are a lot of products on the market claiming to keep you looking young but it’s a virtual jungle out there isn’t it so who do you believe which product is the best for you why you know you should you buy the most expensive one. Can you tell fact from fiction if it’s actually going to work well Doctor Susan Schroeder is from perfect skin dermatology is here to fill us in on what we need to know? There are a lot of products
Yeah
So, it’s but it’s wonderful that you’re here to kind of like
Sorry we just
Oh, that’s okay, our table. Kind of lead us through like what we what we need to know. So, I guess, let’s just start out with
Sure
You know what when patients come to you, you, know what are they what are they looking for
So this is my, my, job is to weed out what really works and what doesn’t
Right
Because it is very confusing and so patients often bring things in and then we go through them and I say this is good you can keep this this needs to be different and you know here’s why and so I’d like to really break it down for them and usually a good rule of thumb is if you can buy it over the counter, it might be a good moisturizer or cleanser
Right
But it may not be potent enough to really give you the anti-aging effects that you’re looking for
Okay and
So unfortunately
We all want to combat aging you can do it from the inside but sometimes just genetics and you know the carcinogens in in the atmosphere, it’s going to happen, we’re going to get wrinkles. So are there any you know what should we be using and let’s start off like let’s
Sure
Let’s take a look at what’s in what’s on the table and kind of talk people through this
Okay
Because there’s moisturizers there’s some retinoids and
Right
Now that’s all confusing for everybody
Okay so to break it down easily there are basically four components to what you should be using on your skin
Okay
For anti-aging. Okay, it should be a sunscreen and we’re going to talk a little bit about that
Okay
An antioxidant or retinoid and then something that’s going to induce collagen in your skin and in addition to the retinoids
Right because as we get older, we’re losing collagen
Right
That’s why our faces are not looking is as tight and perky
After the age of 30 you, you, lose 1 percent average of your collagen a year in this day okay
Oh, so sad but we can combat it
I know
But we can combat it, okay so you did mention sunscreen
Yeah
Why should we be wearing sunscreen?
Okay so sunscreen is cumulative and I like to say there are no free calories and sunscreen. Every single way that you that reaches your skin is going to be registered and over time it causes photo damage
Okay
So a good rule of thumb is I have a lot of patients that cover and say well I asked them are you are you using sunscreen well yeah, if I’m in the Sun well guess what if there’s daylight out, you’re in the Sun
So even if you’re driving in the car putting your shade down it’s still shining in your face that’s
UV exposure penetrates glass
Okay
You know any time you’re actually unless you’re a vampire you’re going to be getting sun exposure
Wow I am not
But, but, will you recommend now is dermatologists usually say now it used to be 30 SPF, it’s 50 SPF
Okay
And you’d would be on a mineral sunscreen. So that’s titanium dioxide and zinc oxide and now we also recommend infrared protection because infrared which is actually heat is something that simulates pigments of pathway, pathway pigment
We talked about this because I was getting those patches of my skin so
Right
We got a sunscreen that I can put on so when I’m getting the heat from you know the washing machine or not for the washing machine for the dishwasher or from the from the kitchen
Or from the exercising let’s see
Exactly, exactly, alright we had we
Yes
One minute let’s get on to these I’m
Okay
I use these and these are what you called antioxidants right?
No, no, this is the antioxidant that looks very similar
Okay
So this is what my favourite antioxidant is vitamin C what you’re looking for in vitamin C is a high concentration so about a twenty to thirty percent and it needs to be in an active state. So high up on the ingredient list, list, it needs to say ascorbic acid or tetra decal hexyl sulphate sorry so
Not going to remember that
That’s okay look under seven natural, the seven things or our blog
Exactly so you know what we do we do have to wrap it up but we had some more stuff to go over I know I use this and it made my feet in my skin and feel like
Collagen inducer elastin best on market and then the other thing is a retinoid. You can either use a retinoid we run no excuse me like a retina or a Retinoin a restore see product this is the one that I use it’s called Alpharetta penetrates really well and it’s very good for sensitive skin. Both of these are.
So these are wonderful and I have I’ve used to these I’ve had a sample of this I’ve used this and it’s, it’s, so absolutely wonderful because this stuff didn’t make my skin feel like silk, but you break it down for everybody on your blog on your website
Right
Okay so for more information go online to perfectskinderm.com and look for that blog their information is up on the screen and the segment has been sponsored by perfect skin dermatology.
Slow down the aging process without hormone replacement therapy: Emepelle is the way to go
Welcome back to living local, time right now 917 a.m. And last month, we were talking about the four essential components of an effective skin anti-aging regime. So, what we learned is that, after the age of 30 we lose an average of about 1 percent of our collagen each year. So, there’s more though because after menopause women lose about 30% of skins collagen in the next 5 years and then after that about 2.1 percent per year. So, what do we do? We’ve got hormone replacement therapy diet exercise I don’t know so Doctor Susan Schroder is back to tell us all about a brand-new way to fight this decline, right?
Yup
Ok all right, so what happens because you know we were talking about after 30, you lose the skin collagen but then after menopause it seems like almost like the hormones kind of adjust things like that
Right yes so you know there are various symptoms that you start to notice in your skin when your estrogen declines and the first thing is hydration, your skin because we’re dry and moisturizers just don’t work as well as they used is that’s the first thing I usually see and then we also see just our scares a little bit more saggy than it was before and it’s more thin and it’s fragile and also we lose some of the glow of our skin and when we were younger and it’s just more it’s less excuse me it’s less luminous than it used to be
Okay so I bet everyone out there is wondering how can we slow this process down I mean a thing you’re going to age, it’s just it comes with life, but how do we how do we slow that down?
Okay with a brand-new product on the market there’s nothing else like that and it’s, it’s, the first of its kind it contains an ingredient that’s called MEP and it mimics the effects of estrogen but it’s not estrogen, it’s not a hormone at all and there are no side effects of estrogen replacement that go along with the use of these products. It’s applied directly to the areas that we want to treat and it just makes you look like your estrogen is back to normal
So, what is it this?
It’s these
Oh my gosh
It’s called alcohol and there to products their two products. One is a serum that you can use day and night and the other one is a thicker night cream.
Okay
Yeah
Oh my gosh okay so it doesn’t have the hormones in it so it’s not affecting you know the menopause or any of the hormones in your body, right?
Right exactly so there’s no what is it mimics estrogen in the skin but it’s not estrogen
Wow
And this is laughing good for people that that can’t but are worried about the side effects of estrogen replacement
Right
The biggest contraindication for women is that if you have a prior history of breast cancer, hormones if you add them back, they can up regulate a tumour or you know cause a cancer to grow and other side effects of hormone replacement can be dry eyes in women you can lose your sense of smell and taste
Wow
You can last hearing I know my kids think that is. I just think they mumble but you know so and then also you can also have problems with what is the other thing, sorry
That’s okay they also
Gall stones is the other thing Oh what you don’t want does it right yeah so none of these this is not going to do anything but just give you back what estrogen would do for your skin
Okay so this is just then it you say it’s Mappelle it that’s how you say it, and this is your, your, daily cream so it’s a little bit lighter
Right
And then at night you could put on something that’s a little bit thicker
Right so its
Can I touch it
Oh yeah sure go ahead
Oh, that’s a smooth
Right
So it’s going to come out and go on and feel like nothing
Right so you put this on under if you’re using any of the other products that we were talking about you can put this on under and then also under makeup on sunscreen
How do you how do you, it’s like a veil like I so smooth
And this is a thicker cream so right
This doesn’t even feel like that thick it feels nice
It’s nice its moisturising, yeah
Oh my gosh so this will help us get back that glow that we’re losing and we’re losing that estrogen it’s mimicking that estrogen but it is not putting hormones in our body because it doesn’t have that estrogen
Right
So, I don’t have to worry about those side effects that come with hormone replacement therapy
Correct and there’s nothing else in the market like this Mappelle is that
Oh my gosh alright new so how can we you know get a hold of you and maybe learn more about this and maybe some other anti-aging things because you know, it’s a little not everyone but sometimes it’s nice to get a little refresh a little Botox just a little bit
You can go to our website www.perfectskin.com or call us at seven one nine four seven four two one seven one three two excuse me
You know that’s okay
I wanted to say one more thing about this if we have a little time
Oh, we tend we definitely do
Okay good so you know where does this fit in to everything else that we talked about?
Exactly it’s like oh I don’t know what to use there’s so many
Right with the antioxidants the retinoids
Right
Collagen inducers the sunscreen well of course you should always be using your sun screen
Exactly
If you’re like myself or Cheryl our office manager, we’re probably on you know more parks than 99% you know not everybody’s going to want to do that
Right
Okay and actually, this is a great way for somebody who just wants to kind of dip their toe into anti-aging products because
Okay
Not only does it have this estrogen mimicking product or component
Yeah
But it also has this one has some vitamin C in it
Oh that’s good
And some niacin amide which decreases inflammation in your skin and then this one has some retinol in it. So you can’t it’s not in the concentrations that we talked about with the other products
Right
But it’s something
Like you said dipping your toe into the into the products into the new night cream you know I always see these funny memes and it’s like if you wore shoes like this or if you liked this TV show when you were younger, it’s time for a night cream or an eye cream
Right
So, you know dip our toe in this come check it out. It’s at your store so our units at your locations at your office
Right
So if people want to come check it out I know that you’re so good at educating everyone and you know just kind of letting them know what options are out there what no matter their budget right
Right
Okay well I want to thank you so much for coming out and educating us and informing us because a lot of times we just don’t know what these products are out there. So we love that you’re on all right so for more information just go online to perfect skin derm dot-com and this segment has been sponsored by perfect skin dermatology.
Community Hour With Mike McGann
Good morning and Happy South Florida Sunday. Welcome once again to Legends Community Focus right here on Legends 100.3. Mike McGahn here with you as I always am. And on this program we talk about topics that are of interest to you in the community and of importance to the community, whether it be art or well, um, how about medicine? And this is an important topic today and I love it ’cause today kind of ties those two things together. You will understand why when we get more into it.
But, you know, here in South Florida, we do have to be pretty careful when it comes to our skin, right? And there are a few reasons for that. Yes, this is an area where we all want to look good in season. We’ve got galas to go to, right? But we also wanna make sure that we are very, very healthy. And, uh, the skin, listen, it is the biggest organ in the body. This is what protects us from all, uh, well, everything that might be a threat from the outside. Uh, skincare. Incredibly important for our appearance, for our health, and often for both at the same time.
To that end, uh, I am so happy to have with me Dr. Susan Schroeder, MD, who is, uh, with Perfect Skin MD. The website to learn more is perfect. Skin derm.com. Perfect Skin derm.com. I love the website too, because I was looking at it and it’s really well laid out. You’ve got all your tabs, just click. It’s gonna take you. Thank you. Right where you want to go.
I was looking at the, the, the different areas with aesthetic and medical and surgical and cosmetic and your history. And it’s well put together. Uh, Dr. Shorter, good morning and welcome to Legends Community Focus. How are you? I’m well. Good morning to you. It’s, uh, great to meet you. Wonderful to have this conversation as well.
So let’s talk a little bit about, well, dermatology and the importance of it, dermatology for anyone that may just be tuning in or not be familiar with it, and probably not many people, but probably worth touching base on what do you do exactly. So, I’m a skin doctor. I treat diseases of the skin. Um, and I, I think the skin is actually fascinating there. I think dermatology is fascinating because there’s so many different things that you can do with it. You can do strictly medical derm, you can do pediatrics, you can do pathology, you can do surgery, you can do cosmetics.
But the really amazing thing about it is, if you’re talking about medical derm, is that there’s so many diseases that you can actually diagnose by just looking at the skin. I can look at your chest, for instance, and if I see broken blood vessels along the, the, uh, inferior chest, I can, I think that maybe you may have a liver disease. I don’t wanna scare people by saying these things, right. But No, but still it’s, you know, That’s, it’s Amazing to think about that. It’s, it’s an indicator. It’s, it’s your early warning system, correct.
There’s kidney disease that you can pick up on the skin. Really? Yes, there are autoimmune diseases all the time. People that sometimes will lose hair loss. There’s underlying reasons for this. So just by looking at the skin, you can pick up some of these things. And that thing, that was what was so fascinating to me in medical school, because there are so few fields at this time that you can actually look at somebody, like a old fashioned doctor and figure out, oh my goodness, you know, you’ve got, you’ve, I’m, I think you need to go get your colon checked.
Wow. Um, whereas now you go in and it’s, I need to get a blood test. I need to get this radiograph. You have to go get an eea, EEG with the skin. You can look at it and make diagnoses. And I think that’s so awesome. That’s like one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard, because I never really considered it. When you think about the skin and, and, and I’m gonna talk the c word for, I’m gonna talk cancer for a minute. Yeah. When people talk about cancer, you know, oh, it’s just skin cancer. But no, nah, that is a major, major issue.
Skin cancer. I mean, again, this is the largest organ in the body. This is our protection system. This is our first line of defense. Right. And, uh, if that is damaged, if it is compromised, and then skin cancer can spread very easily to lymph nodes, all kinds of areas. I I know someone very close, someone who had to have a number of lymph nodes removed fairly recently, and it all began with a small, uh, a small skin cancer under the hair. Um, it’s really incredible the domino effect that can happen.
So care of the skin is really paramount in so many ways. It’s the first thing to take care of really. That’s true. And I don’t wanna make people paranoid because not all skin cancers are gonna metastasize. Right. A lot of them are, I don’t wanna say cancers banal, but it is. Some of those are very slow growing. Yeah. You know, I mean, if you live in the back woods and you put a bandaid on it, and it’s the size of a golf ball, I’m gonna worry about that. But a lot of these, and I’ve had that, I’ve had that happen. I’m sure you have. But, um, but most of them people are, are astute and they’re, and they come in when these things are small.
And um, and they’re easily treatable. That’s the thing. If you can get it early, you’re in much better shape. Early Is the key word of a lot of this stuff, isn’t it? But, right. I I, I think that’s another thing about it is there’s not one size fits all. There’s not a single answer, uh, to this. There are variables. What’s the type, what’s the size? How quickly is it changing? Where is it? You need to have someone who is an expert, take a look at this and make sure that what, what, uh, what’s happening with your skin, whether it’s cancer or maybe it’s showing kidney disease. Maybe there’s another red flag coming up somewhere that is visible on the skin. And Dr. Schroer will take a look at it and you’ll know.
And that’s amazing to me because that’s somewhere between art and science. It’s a combination of both. And your history brings both of those things together, doesn’t it? It does. Yeah. Let’s talk about that. ’cause your history’s really cool. So what do you want me to tell you about my fashion history? Yeah, Tell me about your fashion. Tell us about it. ’cause it comes together. It Ties in. So I have been knitting and sewing and, well, actually, I’ve been drawing since I was five. That was my favorite thing to do is always draw. I drew bunny rabbits. That was my thing. Bunny’s Mike, you already know that We have a brief conversation before the air about bunnies. Yes.
So, um, and then I started knitting and sewing. And I was always doing these fine motor skills with my, my hands. I loved creating things. Okay. And I went to, I went to regular college. I was pre-med. And then I thought, you know, I think this is too hard for me. I’m, I’m gonna go to design school. I’m gonna become a fashion designer. So I went to design school after you Drew, I love your look, so Oh, thanks. I can see that. Yes. Thank you. Um, yeah. I like to, I know how to put stuff together. Yes.
Um, so I, anyway, so then I went to design school in Los Angeles. I’d got an associate’s degree after normal college. Okay. And I was working as a, I learned how to drape and sew and work with different, you know, aspects of a line. And I worked in the industry for a couple years, but it wasn’t as challenging as I thought it was gonna be. And I wasn’t gonna be Donna, Karen, or, you know Sure. Versace or anything. Right. It that takes a lot of capital. And I thought, you know, right. Maybe this isn’t really what all the, you know, maybe it’s just rose colored glasses. Sure. And I felt that I wanted to do something. I wanted to go back to medicine.
So I actually went to medical school and loved everything. Um, I couldn’t decide what to do. Um, long story short, I ended up picking dermatology. Um, and it’s so funny. It, it was really just happenstance because when I was finishing my residency, Botox was just coming on the scene. Okay. And the first anti ERs out there was something called NeoStrata, which is an alpha hydroxy acid. And we were just starting to learn that wow, Retin A may actually do something for aging. I was As approach to dys acne. I remember, I remember Right. I wasn’t on the ground floor.
And just by happenstance, that is, I, I learned all that stuff. And the other residents when I was in training would say, go talk to her. ’cause I, I knew it all. Right. You know, and it has always just been a passion of mine to learn about these things. And, um, as far as the cosmetic aspect. So I, I, yes, I am a general derm. I’ve, I, you know, but I also did a fellowship in cosmetic and surgical derm. And that’s really where I’ve taken the ball and a run. Yeah.
I love how it’s come together for you because you’ve got fine motor skills, which are obviously required. You get that from, from knitting and doing the things you did when you were younger. Right? No, no. My scars look great. They’re invisible. Right. Invisible scars. Because you’ve got the fine motor, but you also have an eye. Yes, I do for it. Yeah. You know, I’m sure a lot of that is natural because it’s sort of those things that’s hard to teach. Right. But at the same time, your time in fashion also helped to hone that eye. And I think those things can come together when it comes to having someone look their best.
I want to make everything beautiful. That’s sums it up. I could probably just loop that and make it the rest of the show. But, uh, you can learn more about all of it. Head over to perfect skin derm.com. That is perfect. Skin derm.com or call 561-462 1965, 561-462 1965.
And you know what, Mike, if I, I’m gonna interrupt you here. Sorry. Do it. Um, on that website, there are, not only are there blogs, but there’s actually a lot of media, because I’ve done a lot of, um, things on tv. Sure. We’ve talked about different antis, we’ve talked about liposuction, we’ve talked about this laser. That laser. So there’s a lot of information. If you just wanna go watch videos, Go watch ’em. ’cause I mean, you can learn a lot from that. I mean, what a great, uh, piece of education that is at, uh, perfect Skin derm.com.
Lots to check out. Now here in, uh, in South Florida, we do have some, some pretty special challenges. I mean, look, I know it rains a lot during the summer, but it still is Sunshine State. And because of that we are at a higher risk of, uh, of skin cancers. It would just make perfect intuitive sense, wouldn’t it? Correct. So Let’s talk a little bit about that prevention, what it’s all about, because, uh, from a health standpoint, again, not every skin cancer is gonna be severe. We can get some that are very easily dealt with if caught early. But again, there’s a whole lot of types of this. So let’s talk about it. What special challenges do we face? How do we deal with them? What recommendations would you make? Let’s talk about it, doc.
Okay. Well, so it is, most of, most of the sun problems come from cumulative exposure over time. Sure. That’s why as people get older, they are more likely to develop skin cancers because that’s that whole cumulative effect. Sure. And I mean, I now I’m gonna scare you, but it’s, it is, whenever there is daylight out, you are getting UVA and UVB rays. Right. I mean, literally, even if it’s in the morning, you’re not getting as many, but you’re, you’re getting that Light is light. It’s a component of Light. So like, so unless you’re a vampire, you’re gonna get sunlight at some point. So you should be wearing sunscreen. ’cause It’s gonna, and most vampires have just gone to bed while this is airing. Correct. So we’re good. That’s Right. Yeah. They don’t need it. They’re fine. They’re in their coffin. So,
Um, so you really wanna be doing some sort of photo protection, and I’m talking about clothing and Sure. You know, and good sunscreen all the time, just because you’re really gonna slow down the number one ager, which is the sun. Which is the sun. So, and you know, the UVB that’s gonna cause skin cancers. But UVA, which penetrates deeper, that is what causes collagen breakdown. Okay. Wow. And causes the brown spots and Yeah. To your skin to become more shallow looking. So you really wanna protect against both. And, you know, you’re, even the UVA even comes through the glass in your car. So when I get in my car, I always put sunscreen on my hands because every day driving to work. Oh, sure. I don’t want that cumulative effect. Wow. That’s, so,
That’s a fascinating thing. I would never, you know, you think about when you’re in the open is when you really need it. Mm-Hmm. But I mean, we’re surrounded by glass all the time. Correct. Yeah. That’s Fascinating. When I go to the beach, I go at 5:00 PM Okay. It’s still when the sun Yeah, it’s there. But the sun’s kind of dropped past that, that the angle that, that you’re gonna get the, the most exposure. Correct. And it’s, it’s not very crowded. I was gonna say, let’s crowded and Yeah. And I still wear sunscreen, but it’s just, it’s warm here in Florida. It’s not cold. Like being in the northeast five o’clock. Yeah, good point. We both know that. So It’s, it’s great. Just FYI. So Let’s talk a bit about sunscreen itself.
Yes. What, what’s, what recommendations do you have or what is there to watch out for? What do people need to know about sunscreen Dr. Schroeder? So I think a lot of people think sunscreen is a boring topic. I think it’s fascinating. There is so much that is on the forefront, um, technology wise with sunscreen. So let, yeah, let’s definitely talk about sunscreen. So there’s a number of different things you wanna wanna look for. First of all, um, sunscreens are broken into two different categories. They’re called mineral sunscreens and chemical sunscreens. Okay. And that’s kind of a misnomer, because actually if you look, if you ever took chemistry 1 0 1 in like eighth grade or something, you know about the periodic table. Yes. And, um, those mineral sunscreens are actually chemicals. So they’re all chemicals. Of course. Everything’s a chemical. Exactly. But life is chemical. But some of them are more pure chemicals than others. Yes. So we can say, let’s say soluble and insoluble. Insoluble is what we call the minerals. And the soluble are the chemicals that are like the avobenzone and the reline and the cinid and what those other ingredient there, they’re gonna Be on the spelling test later. Exactly right. They are. Yes. And you’re first up. Oh boy.
Okay. So, um, anyway, so the difference between those two is that the mineral sunscreens, they are physical sunblocks and they sit on your skin, maybe some penetration, but most of it is just sitting on the skin and the sun comes and it bounces off these, it’s a literal barrier. Yeah. And they, these are the ones that used to look like in the seventies, lifeguards were wearing the white on their noses. That was old. Yeah. Like the zinc oxide, and then the would that Be and the titanium dioxide. Yes. Yeah. But they, we still use those same things. Sure. But they look com I’m wearing them now. I look like I, I have nothing on. Right. I would never guess that. Right. No, it’s just because you, they’re so, um, elegant at this point that you don’t look like they used to.
So that’s one thing. The chemical sunscreens are the ones that penetrate into the skin. And then when the sun comes and hits them, the sun is neutralized. There’s problems with that. One is some of these, um, they are hormone disruptors. They’re, they, people can be allergic to them. There’s all kinds of problems with chemical sunscreens. And they’re finding chemicals, those chemicals in people’s tissues. Like they find it in endometrial tissue, for instance. Oh boy. Yeah. So, um, I recommend that you just use a mineral sunscreen. Okay. Um, instead, and the other thing that I don’t like about the, uh, chemical sunscreens, and this is something that’s a lot of people, I’m amazed that it’s been at it for about 15 years, but for whatever reason, it’s not being touted. There’s a component called infrared, infrared. Red is a wavelength, but it’s heat and infrared can be great. It’s, you know, we hear about the infrared saunas use It for pain. There’s a lot of, I’ve Used for, yeah. It’s very good for anti-inflammation. But the problem is in the skin infrared, which is heat. And that can come from being in the sun, being in a hot car, being on your peloton for an hour, um, you know, getting a procedure that’s laser and you have more pigment in your skin and it will affect you. Right. Um, so what happens with infrared is that it heat in your skin will stimulate the melanocytes, which are the cells in your skin that produce pigment Yes. To, to increase their pigment production. And then you end up with all these brown spots all over your skin. And people think, well, I’m using sunscreen. I’m using a high SPF. Why am I still getting brown spots? Why can I not treat my melasma? Right. ’cause you’re missing the infrared component in the sunscreen. And it has changed my life as a dermatologist, because now knowing that when I do my procedures that create heat, the skin, which are mostly lasers, I can treat any skin color because I know how to prevent that darkening that might occur. Wow. Yes. It’s really cool.
And they’re the in, they’re not gonna tell you that it’s, the problem is they’re not in the venos, the neutrogena’s, you know, the Shils, Sun your’re, basic OTCs, the ones that everybody knows Right there, there are, they are more boutique ones, but there’s a number of them. Cool. Lot. Does it skin better? Uh, science Elastin has infrared color Science is like, the whole company’s basically based on infrared. Anything that you’re going to, any of those companies that I just mentioned, you can go to their websites and, and any sunscreen you buy from them will have the infrared component and just mineral sunscreen. Wow. There’s, there’s, it’s a much deeper discussion, I think, than most people would ever expect when you’re talking sunscreen. Just, it’s pretty amazing. Throw it on here, the SPF, but I love the science behind it. Right. You know, the physical barrier of those mineral sunscreens and then looking at you and you’ve got ’em on, you said right now. And I would never have guessed that. Yeah. I mean, you’re like, gall ready.
Thank you. And no, I Don’t use stand foundation anymore. Only sunscreen. Tinted. Yeah. Wow. That’s fascinating. Well, the Older that you get, the more I find that foundation makes you look older. I just Oh, It does. Yeah. Yeah. It looks like hiding, right. Opposed to Yeah. Can’t do that. I get it better to accent what you have. Right. Um, this, that’s a fascinating topic and so important here, uh, in South Florida especially. And, and the, you know, considering, and again, it blew my mind to think about it, when you’re in the car, right. Look, you’re gonna, you, you may have a tinted, tinted windshield and all that, but that is still getting through. Correct. Unbelievable.
One more thing I wanna mention about sunscreen. Yeah. You know, people wanna know, well, what SPF should I use? Sure. Because it used to be, you know, 15 or 10 I Remember is 15 was the max. Right? Yeah. What is SPF? So SPF is sun protective factor. Yep. And the way that they determine this is, let’s say that you go out into the sun and you have no sunscreen on, and in 10 minutes you burn. Yeah. If you put a sunscreen on with a 10 SPF, it means that you can stay out in the sun 10 times longer than that. So 10 times 10 minutes would be a hundred minutes, but then you will still burn. Okay. Okay. So people would come to me and say, I used my sunscreen, but they’re not reapplying It. Right. They’re letting it go. And after, after that, yes. Hour and a half. Well, right, yeah. Two hours. Yeah. Two hours. With that, you’re gonna get, you’re, you’re gonna start getting the damage again. Correct. Because here’s the thing is that, um, and the other thing is, even if you’re s sp, like most people use higher than an SPF time right now. Okay. But even if you do use a higher SPF after two hours in the sun, it’s gonna break down. Of course. Okay. And so you have to reapply it anyway. So there’s a point where it doesn’t make any sense to go. I tell people 30 to 50 SPF is good. Other than that you’re just wasting your money. You don’t need a 70 ’cause it’s gonna break down by two hours anyway. Wow. Yeah. That’s, that, that’s great to know. I always, I, I really didn’t know what to make of any of that except, Hey, this is the, wow. I knew it was some protection factor, but I didn’t really know how the numbers worked. Yeah, that’s a, that’s a really important thing to know. It is. But it makes sense. I, I like to tell you why I’m a logician. I love it. Yeah. Because I mean, well, why do I have to do every two hours? That sounds like a real pain. I like The why. If you know the why, you can usually figure out the how. Correct. Exactly. It’s my experience.
I’m talking to Dr. Susan Schroeder, MD, dermatologist, dermatologic surgeon as well. You’ve got the skill of the hands I can see looking at your hands that, I mean, those are good hands for that.
Let’s talk a bit about the surgical and cosmetic sides of this, because they’re really important here too as well. They are. Yeah. And they’re, you know what, for me, they’re so fun. It’s like literally creating art. Well, you’re an artist. Yeah. And we talked about that with the history. You, it is an art. You have the instincts for it and also the coordination, the physical skills for it.
But let’s talk about your art when it comes to cosmetic and surgical dermatology. So I basically do the gamut. I will do everything from, you know, I think it’s really important to start with cosmeceuticals, which are anti-aging products. And I spent a lot of time making sure that I only carry things that really work. Okay, good. ’cause I can’t sell, I can’t lie. I can’t sell things that don’t work. Everything in my office works.
You’ve got some integrity. Right. Which I love. Love it. And then there, then we go into injectables and we’re talking about Botox a Xeomin. Mm-Hmm. Um, we’re talking about fillers. I tend to do fillers differently than most. That’s a whole other conversation.
Um, I, I don’t like to just do the lips or make the cheeks. I don’t like that. It’s about, it’s about the whole face and about lifting and knowing how to place it so that I can make you look like a younger and better version of yourself. It’s not making you look like somebody else. Correct. You’ll look better, but not different. Yes.
And I wow that that’s a good thing because I, I see this incredible lack of proportion sometimes a later. And it’s hard to, it’s hard to miss it when you see it. No, I know.
Um, anyway, so, you know, so you have that whole aspect. Then you have the chemical peels aspect and it’s, the chemical peels have come a long way. And we usually do medium depth, but the medium depth used to take two weeks to heal. Now they heal. They heal in five days. Very, I do them all the time, um, on myself actually. ’cause they’re just very little downtime.
Um, and then we’ve got, um, a lot of different energy devices Okay. And lasers. Um, so that’s another aspect we even do. Um, sorry if this is, this may be a little offensive, but it’s okay. We do vaginal rejuvenation Sure. With laser. Yeah. Um, we do, um, PRP people may be familiar with that. That’s platelet, Platelet rich plasma. Exactly right. We do, we have two platelet rich machines. One is good for hair and face and one is good for internal organs, like the vagina and g-spot and that sort of thing.
Sure. Um, and then, um, we also, and then I also do surgical procedures. I do a lot of tumescent liposuction, which is liposuction under local anesthesia. It’s just anesthetizing the one area that we’re treating, or the two or three whatever. And you will be somewhat sedated, but it’s not the whole general anesthesia thing. It’s, it’s incredibly safe. I have been doing this for over 20 years.
Um, and we do fat transfer too. So people that like to rejuvenate their face and make them look, they’ve lost a lot of, um, volume in their face. Sure. We’ll take it from where you don’t want it and we’ll put it where you want it. Um, I’ve done butt lifts with that. Brazilian butt lifts do really well with fat transfer. And then I do surgical lifts as well.
We, um, we do lower, um, face and neck lifts. Um, we do earlobe repairs, we do surgical reconstructions, um, we do sclerotherapy, which is for veins. Sure. I mean, we do a lot. I mean, yes. There’s A lot. Well, no, it’s everything. And if you look at the website, you can see.
Yes. I mean, the menu, when I, when I looked at it and I looked under services and each one had its little subtab, aesthetic, medical, surgical, and cosmetic. And every one of those had a menu under it as well to, to see what all the services were.
Well, and I mean, it was really massive. Well, I’m old, but I don’t look old. I have a hard time buying that. You’re old. I’ve been doing this for a long time. So I’ve accumulated a lot of skill. Clearly You have.
Well, you bring those skills to all the table. Um, uh, all of them to the table. What, what really strikes me about this Dr. Schroeder, and one of the things I’m really enjoying the most about this conversation, both before we went on the air and we were chatting and now actually having this discussion, is the joy you get from it.
Oh, I, I mean, this is your passion. Yeah. I know. It’s, and it’s part of the reason that makes you so good at it. Why do you feel you’re so passionate? And this is a tough question people can ask me. How are you passionate about performing? I dunno. I am, you know, what led to that passion?
You know, I get joy out of making beautiful things. I mean, that is really the basic thing. You know, when I would knit something, look at this beautiful sweater, or look at that picture I did, you know, even when I was younger. Right. But now it’s like, a lot of times I’ll call in my staff and I’ll say, come take a look at how good she looks.
Oh my God. Do you see, do you see the difference? Do you see what I, and, and you know, it’s just, it is. And what I love, and people don’t think about this with cosmetic work. Sure. But if you can really make somebody look exquisite Yeah. Beautiful. It changes them psychologically. Oh, of course.
They feel so, ma I cannot tell you how many people I’ve had that have, like, all of a sudden their husband left them or whatever else, and we changed it. Actually, the husband wants to come back. Yeah. I mean, not, I don’t wanna guarantee that, but it’s that it’s not, and it’s not that I did such an amazing job, it’s that they feel so much better about themselves and it changes their entire org.
Of course. And that is really awesome to see, to see people blossom because they feel better about how they present to the world. Yeah. It’s, it’s not as, it’s not as simple as you look better. Correct. That’s the start, that’s the root of it. But, uh, when you are looking better, you have that confidence.
Look, a lot of it does come from inside, right? People talk about the glow, right. Well, the glow comes from attitude. The glow comes from how you feel. And when you’re looking in the mirror and liking what you see, you’re gonna get that glow. You want a Job? Um, let’s talk later. Okay. I’m, I’m always, always open to options.
Um, but you know, when you take that and you add it to these incredibly necessary things like dealing with the skin cancers like the medical and surgical aspects of this, which is also, you know, one of your fortes many, you have many of them. Um, it’s a very well-rounded practice.
And one of the things that strikes me about it is that your passion is just as well-rounded. You are as passionate about making sure people are healthy and, and alive and, and living and getting to enjoy their lives in a healthy manner as you are about making sure that they’re looking good and looking the way they want. You bring, you bring a surgeon’s eye and an artist’s eye together.
I’m not sure if it’s the left or the right, uh, for each one of those things, but, um, you bring them together and that creates a practice that is really not like many others, I can’t think of any other dermatologists I know of who actually did, you know, wool spinning on a wheel. And, uh, they’re able to apply those skills to making minimal scars.
I know. It’s kind of, I didn’t go back to that camp ’cause I was too scared they were gonna make me the, the spinning counselor that’s like being a cat lady. So, but anyway, um, yeah, It’s, thank You. Well, it’s True. I’m looking at this, the conversation’s been so fascinating.
Uh, Dr. Schroeder’s a fascinating person as well as this incredibly skilled dermatologist and, and a dermatologic surgeon, uh, whatever it may be. General dermatology, skin cancer diagnosis and treatment, but cosmetic and, and surgical dermatology. That’s in many ways Uh, Dr. Schroeder’s vocation is a calling, and it’s one that she has certainly responded to with Perfect Skin MD. The interviewer adds that although they are out of time, he wants to mention one thing about what makes their practice so different. It is a small boutique practice where they know their patients when they walk through the door. They are not automated; they give their patients the time they deserve. Dr. Schroeder sees about 12 patients a day, not 30 or 40, because they want to avoid the seven-minute average that people are used to. It’s not fun for her, and she’s glad to have fun with it because that’s what it’s about. It’s more about connecting with people and figuring out what works best for them.
The interviewer gets the sense that Dr. Schroeder sees her patients as human beings, which is what it’s all about. Dr. Schroeder agrees, saying they are all human and she is serving the humans that come to her, whether it is for aesthetic, medical, surgical, or cosmetic needs. Perfect Skin MD and Dr. Susan Schroeder are going to build that relationship, find out what works best for the patient, keep their skin safe, keep it looking good, and make sure they can enjoy their time at the beach or at the gala.
The interviewer encourages listeners to make a call to get to know them better or visit perfectskinderm.com. He shares that it’s not often he has this much fun with a conversation with a doctor, but this was great. Dr. Schroeder’s secret weapon is their superpower, which the interviewer loves. Dr. Schroeder thanks the interviewer for his time, passion, and what he does. She says it was a pleasure and she enjoyed it, and they agree to talk again. The segment ends with the interviewer mentioning the Legends community focus on the South Florida Sunday morning and teasing more legendary programming on the way.
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