Essential to maintaining your skin health are medical grade skin care products. We offer a range of proven medical grade products to revive, rejuvenate and combat aging. These products will compliment treatments given at Evolve Medical Associates.
Medical grade skin care products are only available through a physician's office. Why are 'medical grade' skin care products better for you than what you can get at the department store or drugstore? The ability of medical grade skin care products to produce such great results has to do with the products and ingredients ability to penetrate the top layer of skin. The medical grade products work at the dermis, or middle layer of the skin, where collagen and elastin are contained and the basal, or bottom layer of the skin, where new skin cells are produced. Over the counter products, however, work only on the epidermis, or top layer of skin, where we shed skin cells and the new skin cells, created in the basal layer, eventually show up. For true correction of skin care problems, treatment needs to be directed towards the deeper skin layers.
Medical grade skin care products can be quite potent, but if used improperly can cause skin burning, blistering or disfigurement. It's very important to have a licensed, experienced skin care professional design a program and prescribe the appropriate products for you.
EvolveMD Skin & Body
Love Obagi, but hate the price? Dr. Sudy, Dr. Yousuff and the staff at Evolve have been working hard to bring you their very first line of medical grade skincare products at a price you can afford.
Our line includes gentle cleansers with vitamins, antioxidants, and alpha hydroxy acids, as well as moisturizers that contain SPF, and a highly concentrated antioxidant serum. Our acne line contains alpha and beta hydroxy acids as well as anti-bacterial Benzoyl Peroxide. EvolveMD Skin & Body is designed to restore your skin while taking it easy on your wallet.
Click here for more information on EvolveMD Skin & Body
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Obagi
The Obagi Nu-Derm System, a physician-prescribed skin care system, accelerates the cellular turnover. This System penetrates deep to improve damage in layers of the skin. It boosts functions of the skin at the cellular level to improve skin's cellular function to help it look and act younger and healthier. The System triggers our Therapeutic Cascade™ of actions that:
- Pushes fresher cells to the surface faster, for smoother skin, reduced wrinkles and increased tolerance
- Reduces mottled pigmentation (freckles and age spots) and helps prevent the appearance of new pigmentation
- Promotes more uniform cells at the deepest layer for better skin structure and balanced, more even skin tone
- Helps increase collagen and elastin for firmer, more resilient looking skin
- Increases nutrients natural hydration and circulation for supple, healthy-looking skin
- Rosaclear, the first and only theraputic system for treating the signs and symptoms of rosacea
For more information, visit the Obagi website
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Skin Medica
TNS products are comprised of a proprietary mix of multiple human growth factors, soluble collagen, matrix proteins, antioxidants and other ingredients, which delivers visible improvement in hyperpigmentation, the appearance of wrinkles, and an overall increase in skin firmness.
TNS recovery complex has been shown to dramatically rejuvenate aging and sun-damaged skin
For more information, visit the SkinMedica website
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Neocutis
We are pleased to add NEOCUTIS to our skin care line! NEOCUTIS Bio-restorative Skin Cream, JOURNÉE Bio-restorative Day Cream, LUMIÈRE Bio-restorative Eye Cream and BIO-GEL Bio-restorative Hydrogel are the only products to contain PSP®.
Through years of research, physicians discovered fetal skin has a unique ability to heal wounds without scarring. Inspired by this, medical researchers at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland created a biotechnology process to extract the rich proteins responsible for scarless wound healing from cultured fetal skin cells. A dedicated cell bank was established for developing new skin treatments using a single biopsy of fetal skin. Originally established for wound healing and burn treatments, today this same cell bank also provides a lasting supply of cells for producing NEOCUTIS proprietary skin care ingredient Processed Skin Cell Proteins (PSP®).
PSP® provides the most complete and balanced combination of human growth factors and cytokines currently available.
For more information, visit the Neocutis website
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PrevageMD
PREVAGE™ MD contains 1% idebenone, scientifically shown to be the most powerful antioxidant available in a skin care product today. PREVAGE™ MD protects your skin from environmental stressors known to cause skin aging including UV light, air pollution, ozone, and cigarette smoke. The antioxidative power of PREVAGE™ MD anti-aging treatment has been shown to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, as well as skin roughness and dryness, and to even skin tone to restore youthful-looking skin.
For more information, visit the Prevage MD website
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Vivite
VIVITE Vibrance Therapy is specially formulated to help minimize hyperpigmentation (brown spots and melasma) and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. This restorative, antioxidant-rich cream brightens and evens out skin tone for healthy-looking rejuvenated skin. Contains 15% glycolic compound.
VIVITE Vibrance Therapy can be used instead of or in conjunction with hydroquinone.
For more information, visit the Vivite website
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Clinique Medical
What is Clinique Medical?
It’s an innovative line of exclusive products available only from your physician. These formulas care for skin’s heightened needs before and after non-surgical cosmetic procedures—including various laser treatments and chemical peels—and provide an exceptional level of ongoing care.
What’s so different about Clinique Medical?
Physician involvement in development and testing means Clinique Medical products are designed to work synergistically to help strengthen skin, minimize unintended effects and support recovery. In addition, all products are filled in a pharmaceutically-designated environment, offering purity assurance for compromised skins.
What are the benefits?
With your physician’s guidance, a Clinique Medical regimen can improve your recuperative experience, minimize predictable discomfort and disruptive visible side effects, and keep skin primed for optimal results.
What’s in the product lineup?
Clinique Medical offers a daily-use, pre, post and ongoing regimen designed to optimize the results of non-surgical cosmetic procedures. The collection also includes a treatment for the drying effects of certain prescription medications.
Who is it for?
Anyone who is planning to undergo a non-surgical cosmetic procedure or taking certain prescription medications. Ask your physician if Clinique Medical products could benefit you.
For more information, visit the Clinique Medical website
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Mineral Make-Up
Mineral makeups have surged in popularity due to the flawless, natural appearance they give your skin as well as the potential skin health benefits such as an anti-inflammatory effect, non-clogging as well as SPF 15 sun protection. They feel much lighter on the skin, yet tend to last longer.
We carry the Colorescience line of mineral makeups.
For more information on our mineral makeups, click here
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Latisse
LATISSE is the first and only FDA-approved prescription treatment for hypotrichosis (another way of saying inadequate eyelashes). It is a once-a-day treatment that involves applying LATISSE to the base of your eyelashes every evening. Clinical studies have shown that 78% of people using LATISSE saw significant improvement in the length, fullness and darkness of their lashes. Although a few people will start noticing changes after 4 weeks of treatment, most will begin to see improvement after 8 weeks. The full effect of LATISSE occurs at 16 weeks.
For more information, including a downloadable 'Latisse Patient Guide', click here
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Tri-Luma
Tri-Luma® Cream is the only triple-action cream approved for the short-term and intermittent long-term treatment of moderate to severe melasma. The latest long-term safety studies confirm that Tri-Luma® Cream is safe and effective when used for longer than eight weeks and repeatedly thereafter when melasma recurs.
Tri-Luma's special combination of three active ingredients is more effective than any combination of the individual components in reducing the darkened skin caused by melasma.
For more information, visit the Tri-Luma website
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Tretinoin
Tretinoin (brand names include: Retin-A, Atralin, Renova, Avita, Altinac) is a derivative of vitamin A.
Topical tretinoin is used in the treatment of mild to moderate acne and on skin that has been damaged by excessive exposure to the sun. Tretinoin irritates the skin and causes the cells of the skin to grow (divide) and die more rapidly, increasing the turnover of cells. The number of layers of cells in the skin actually is reduced. In patients with acne, new cells replace the cells of existing pimples, and the rapid turnover of cells prevents new pimples from forming.
By a similar mechanism, tretinoin can reduce some wrinkles, areas of darkened skin, and rough areas of skin, all of which occur in sun-damaged skin. In patients with sun-damaged skin, improvements in the skin usually are seen within the first 3 to 4 weeks of treatment. Brown spots begin to fade after six to eight weeks. Wrinkles decrease or disappear after three to six months.
Following application to the skin, a minimal amount of drug is absorbed into the body. The FDA approved topical tretinoin in 1971.
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4% Hydroquinone
Hydroquinone is a skin-bleaching agent that is used to lighten areas of darkened skin such as freckles, chloasma (also known as melasma), age spots, and acne scars.
Hydroquinone works by decreasing the production and increasing the breakdown of melanosomes (melanin pigment granules) in the skin's pigment cells (melanocytes). It does this by inhibiting the activity of tyrosinase, the enzyme needed to make melanin.
In most cases, lightening of skin should be seen after 4 weeks of treatment. Sometimes it may take longer to see any change but if no bleaching effect is seen after 3 months of treatment, you should stop using hydroquinone.
To increase the effectiveness of hydroquinone you should stay out of the sun, or wear protective clothing and use a SPF15+ sunscreen when outdoors. Do not use sunlamps or tanning salons.
It is important to use hydroquinone regularly as directed until you achieve the desired bleaching, after which use only as needed to maintain results.
Hydroquinone is available over the counter as a 2% cream for topical application. Prescription strength, 4% is available through our office.