SKIN HEALTH

For all our patients who have been working hard to feel good on the inside, we want you to look and feel your best on the outside too! Therefore, Dr. Gansner offers a variety of treatments to ensure her patients leave with the healthiest looking skin possible:

• Personalized Skin Consultation

• Vitamin Injections

• Micro-Needling

• PRP SkinPen Rejuvenation Facial

• Dermal Fillers

• Anti-Wrinkle Treatments (Xeomin)

Personalized Skin Consultation

Everyone’s skin is different. Your genetics, history, and environment all have an effect on your overall skin health, and they will also affect what kind of treatment your skin will respond best to. Dr. Gansner develops each individualized skin health treatment plan with an initial skin consultation in which she analyzes your skin, covers topics such as hormones, diet, lifestyle, and recommended courses of action in order for you to achieve your skincare goals. 

Dr. Gansner has a passion for skin health and total wellbeing. We look at your overall health to see how it may be affecting your skin, but also what your skin may be indicating about your overall health. We offer a variety of skin health treatments to assist our patients in obtaining the healthiest looking skin possible: skin boosting vitamin injections, wrinkle relaxation treatments, dermal fillers, and micro-needling.

Book in now for your personalized skin consultation to start down you path to healthy, younger looking skin today. We want all our patients to leave with a renewed sense of confidence and love their skin again!

Vitamin Injections:
Skin, Energy, Metabolic and IMMUNE BOOSTING

Powerful , individually determined blends of minerals and amino acids in a bioactive methyl-B12 base. Research has shown that most people are low or deficient in vitamin B12, which is more related to digestive absorption than diet. As it is injected directly into muscle tissue, the nutrients move straight to your blood system for fast absorption and results.

Vitamin injections are tailored specifically to meet each patient’s unique health and skin needs. B12 provides for increased energy and a mood booster. Vitamin B4 supports healthy hormone production and increased mental focus. Biotin promotes healthier skin, hair and nails. These are just a few of the combinations available, let Dr. Gansner assess and formulate a vitamin injection to meet your specific needs today. It is safe and quick (15 minutes usually), with little to no downtime.

Micro-Needling

No surgery. No downtime. No side effects. Just gorgeous, glowing skin!

What is Micro-Needling?  

Micro-Needling is a treatment that uses a pen-shaped device tipped with hundreds of incredibly thin needles that is run along the skin, puncturing hundreds of tiny holes in the top layers of the skin. This process serves two purposes: 

• the needles open up the skin to allow increased absorption of serums and oils into the deeper layers of the skin increasing the efficacy of skin care products; and,

• speeds up the healing process that regenerates collagen and elastin in the skin.

 These effects cause the skin to look and feel more plump and smooth, improving the appearance of fine lines, acne scars, pores, and wrinkles.

How does it work?

Dr. Gansner uses the SkinPen system from Bellus Medical. It is the first ever medical facial needling device approved by the FDA and Health Canada.  It causes controlled micro-injuries that stimulate your body’s natural wound healing process, while minimizing cellular damage.

For those with scars and enlarged pores, we recommend pairing a micro-needling treatment with PRP for the face (see PRP SkinPen Rejuvenation Facial below). This combination treatment delivers naturally-derived and powerful growth factors into the skin and ensures optimal results for total skin rejuvenation.

What does a treatment include?

A full micro-needling facial treatment takes no longer than an hour to complete. Before the procedure begins, a topical anesthetic is applied to all areas that will be treated with the micro-needling to reduce pain, though most patients report some minor discomfort throughout the procedure. A thorough consultation on benefits, process and after care is provided to all patients. After the therapy, you will experience redness that lasts several days, and appears similar to a moderate sunburn. An after care topical healing set to take home is also provided.

What results are expected?

While results will vary depending on each patient’s skin makeup, Dr. Gansner has seen significant improvement in the skin condition of many of her patients. The result is the effective re-modelling of scar tissue, while keeping the overall structure of the skin intact.

SkinPEN Rejuvenation Facial

For those with scars and enlarged pores, we recommend pairing a micro-needling treatment with PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma) for PRP SkinPen Rejuvenation Facial. It is an anti-aging skin treatment that works by concentrating the healing power and regeneration of skin through activation of platelets. PRP promotes the body’s own collagen to grow and regenerate new tissue resulting in smoothing and tightening of the skin. The PRP SkinPen Rejuvenation Facial is a method for facial rejuvenation that doesn’t require surgery, xeomin or fillers. It’s 100% natural because it uses your body’s own anti-aging growth factors to increase collagen production, improving skin texture and tone, leaving healthy, glowing skin.

Take years off your face in less than an hour by harnessing your body’s own natural anti-aging growth factors and platelets for dramatic results. Patients can add a PRP facial to their micro-needling for $225 for the complete PRP SkinPen Rejuvenation Facial experience.

Dermal Fillers

What are Dermal Fillers?

Dr. Gansner also offers hypoallergenic dermal fillers that usually do not require a skin test prior to injection.  Our dermal fillers are made solely of hyaluronic acid (HA), which is a natural component of your skin. The innate ability of HA to bind water makes it a great choice for reducing the appearance of lines and wrinkles, restoring facial volumes and rehydrating skin.

In your body, HA fills the spaces between cells, protecting them by retaining water and serving as a cushion. Considered a ‘natural moisturizer’ HA performs different tasks in the body. HA can hold up to 1,000 times its own weight in water, maintaining the smoothness (moisturizing effect) and plumpness (volumizing effect) of our skin.

During the aging process, the production of HA naturally decreases. The skin becomes drier and its ability to retain moisture and maintain elasticity depletes. Today, the signs and symptoms of the natural ageing process of the skin can be reduced by replacing the lost HA.

What to expect during treatment?

This treatment provides patients with safe, natural-looking and lasting results in a short visit usually under an hour. Patients report minimal to no discomfort.  We use ice to numb the treatment area and offer a topical numbing cream before administering your treatment. These reactions are normal, generally mild to moderate, and usually disappear within a week. The amount and areas of injections will be identified after the consultation. There may be some slight bruising or redness after injection. You can see results almost immediately after the procedure is completed, and the effects can last up to 9 months.

Anti-Wrinkle Treatments (Xeomin)

For all our patients who have been working hard to feel good on the inside, we want you to look and feel your best on the outside too! Dr. Gansner offers anti-wrinkle treatments (Xeomin) to help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles around the face.

What is Xeomin?

There are 43 muscles in your face, all pulling in different directions, and it’s time to give them a break. Xeomin is a results driven, aesthetic and therapeutic injectable neuromodulator which is clinically proven to temporarily improve the appearance of moderate to severe frown lines between the eyebrows and wrinkles in adults. It is a neuromodulator derived from botulinum that when administered in extremely low concentrations it is an effective treatment for many medical and aesthetic conditions. It is both a Health Canada and FDA approved product with clinically proven results. 

How does it work?

Xeomin works to block acetylcholine, the chemical messenger that causes muscles to contract, preventing it from reaching the nerve thus stopping muscle contractions and making them less stiff. This is temporary and normally lasts for 3-4 months. By injecting extremely small doses to a specific muscle, we can safely relax the muscle. The overlying skin lines will gradually soften and smooth out. Xeomin takes effect in 3-7 days, while maximum results are achieved in 10-14 days. Giving your skin a fresh, natural and rested appearance!

What are the side effects?

The injections are relatively painless with little to no downtime.  Some patients may experience some temporary redness or bruising immediately after the treatment. Rarely, if Xeomin migrates to the upper eyelid, one can experience a slight drooping of the eyelid which corrects itself after a short while. Occasional temporary numbness of the forehead and a transient headache may occur. There have been no reports of allergic reaction to Xeomin.

How much does a typical treatment cost?

Dr. Gansner performs an initial consultation to determine the scope of the recommended treatment, and adopts a less and more frequent approach to Xeomin injections to ensure a more natural appearance. She charges $10 per unit, with an average treatment using between 20-50 units.