Garner Dermatology - Top-Rated Dermatologists in Garland, TX

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Getting Botox

Fact: Botox is one of the safest treatments you can get, and a few units can work wonders if you feel like your complexion is in need of a refresh. While the entire process can be done in a matter of minutes, there are a few key things you should and shouldn’t do in the days before and after your appointment.
DO Your Research
Make sure to research your doctor before booking your appointment, and only go to a professional practitioner. While a lot of doctors can theoretically administer the treatment, going to one who is trained in the technique will ensure optimal results and reduce the risk of any complications. At West Dermatology, we pride ourselves in having some of the best board-certified dermatologists in the country so that you get the best results possible.
DO Move the Injected Areas
In the hour following your treatment, try to move the treated area by making pronounced facial expressions. Frown, smile, raise your brows, and make faces to your heart’s content. This allows the Botox to better reach the muscles it needs to target.
DO Schedule a Follow-Up Appointment
Touch base with your doctor about two weeks post-procedure to make sure everything is settling correctly. Because Botox takes about 14 days to take full effect, a follow-up appointment will allow your doctor to determine if more units are needed for a specific area. 
DON’T Apply Pressure to the Area
As tempting as it can be to massage the treated area, avoid applying pressure in the hours after your appointment to prevent having the Botox migrate. 
DON’T Work Out for 24 Hours
Physical activity and extreme heat can increase the chances of bruising or swelling, so make sure to reschedule those workout classes for the day or so following your appointment. 
Follow the above tips, and your radiant complexion will be on full display in no time. If you want more personalized advice, we’re here for you! Feel free to reach out to our board-certified medical professionals today to schedule your consultation and appointment.

Transitioning Your Skincare to Spring

Spring Skin Is In  

 
Goodbye winter and hello spring! With its warmer air and increased humidity, this time of year reminds us that just as the seasons change, so do our skin care needs. It’s time to get ready for the new season ahead. From switching your moisturizer to upping your SPF, we’ve got all the tips you need for a successful transition.  
 
Switch to a Lighter Moisturizer 
Springtime is all about light, water- based moisturizing. You no longer need those rich, heavy moisturizers that were vital during the dry winter months. Treat yourself instead to something new from our online shop.   
 
Exfoliate  
Slough off winter’s dead, dry, itchy skin with gentle at-home exfoliation this spring. If you want to treat yourself, book one of our in-office treatments like a facial, dermaplaning, or a chemical peel and start the season with fresh, glowing skin.  
 
Up Your SPF  
Prepare your skin to face sunnier days by upping your SPF to 50. Choose a broad spectrum product that will protect you from both UVA (aging) and UVB (burning) rays. Chemical or physical (mineral) sunscreens are both effective. Use a mineral sunscreen on your face if you’re prone to breakouts since mineral sunscreens won’t clog your pores.  
 
Get Down With It 
Bring sunscreen down below your jawline and onto your neck. And, remember to use SPF on all your skin that will be exposed to the light like your ears, shoulders, arms, chest, hands, legs, and feet.   
 
Don’t Rely on Your Foundation’s SPF 
Remember to use a sunscreen that’s separate from the SPF in your foundation. To get the full SPF number promised on the bottle, slather on a thick layer of sunscreen about the size of a quarter. Only after this soaks in, follow up with a thinner layer of foundation. SPF loses its potency as the day wears on, so bonus points if you apply an SPF face powder throughout the day. 
 
Swallow an Antioxidant Pill 
Add to your daily sun protection routine with an antioxidant supplement. ISDIN Photo SUNISDIN is a once-a-day pill that reduces free-radical damage by improving your skin’s ability to fight oxidative stress. It also helps your skin look brighter and more radiant and boosts hydration, firmness, and elasticity. 
 
Spring Clean 
It’s time to toss out those mystery bottles of product and start fresh again. Check the expiration date and toss it if it’s old. If you’re not sure when it expires, it’s best to let it go and buy something fresh and new. This especially applies to sunscreen, which loses its potency with time.  
 
Wash Your Tools  
Spring is the time to wash away the old makeup and grime that accumulated on your sponges, brushes and rollers over the winter. Brushes and sponges can harbor harmful bacteria that hurt your skin care goals. Clean tools = healthy skin. Use a gentle brush cleanser and then let your tools air dry, or you can blow dry them if you’re in a hurry. 
 
Say goodbye to winter and hello to spring with its new set of skin care needs. It’s time to transition your skin care routine to the new season ahead. So, switch to a lighter moisturizer, exfoliate, increase your SPF, use sunscreen all over your body, use a sunscreen that’s separate from the SPF in your foundation, take a sun-protection pill, spring clean, and wash your beauty tools.  
 
Visit us for a skin check and find out how preventative care can help you reach your skin care goals.   

Fall in Love with Our Derm-Grade Products

This Valentine’s Day, we’re taking our love for our derm-grade products to the next level by highlighting why we always steer our patients toward clinical-grade skincare brands. With products that are able to penetrate deep into the skin’s layers and produce quality results, we choose to have a wide variety of brands at hand to allow us to tailor our suggestions to each individual patients’ needs.
What Is Derm Grade? 
Our derm-grade products (also called medical or clinical-grade) are proven effective. They’ve passed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection through controlled and double-blind trials. This means that the participants and researchers don’t know which product participants are getting until after the trial, so the results are less biased. It’s one of the gold standards in the scientific community for proving a product works.
Regular Products 
Non-derm grade products sold in supermarkets, drug stores, and online are self-regulated by the cosmetic industry. This means they can make wild claims about how good they are with no evidence to back it up. Yikes.
Consumers Lose 
It’s the consumers who lose when they are left experimenting with different products that may or may not work as advertised. Plus, it’s frustrating and expensive to buy a product for a specific condition and then have it not work.
The Advantage of Derm-Grade Skincare Brands 
Derm-grade skincare can penetrate deeper layers of skin. So, when you buy, say, retinol that’s medical-grade, you know the collagen and elastin in your skin is being repaired at the deepest level possible with a topical product.
Are Derm-Grade Products More Expensive 
Yes, and no. While you will pay more for the actual bottle of product, it’s less expensive than having a drawer full of products that you spent good money on but didn’t work for you. With derm-grade products, you know they work because they passed a thorough FDA inspection.
Derm-Grade Products Are a Better Value 
At our clinic, we believe our derm-grade products offer our patients excellent value for many reasons, including that you don’t need to experiment with several different types of routines. Instead, you can save money with:
  • A product that’s specifically matched your needs. (You can always ask your dermatologist for a recommendation, which they’re happy to give).
  • The active ingredients in derm-grade products can be stronger and contain higher levels of ingredients like antioxidants, retinol, and peptides that lead to more noticeable results.
You Only Need a Few 
Just a few of our key derm-grade products are plenty to keep your skin looking its best. We recommend you make sure your serums are derm-grade, especially Vitamin-C serum. If you want to treat a specific problem, like melasma spots, also make sure your products are derm-grade.
We hope you are as in love with our derm-grade skincare products as we are. Ask to see the products on hand at your next annual skin check. If you don’t want to wait, head over to our online shop where we stock the best brands in the business.

Why We’re Passionate About Skin

West Dermatology is passionate about skin  in case you missed it (ICYMI), and many of us have turned our passion into a career. We enjoy helping our patients care for the largest organ in their body. And we care about saving lives by preventing and treating skin cancer. In addition, we’re passionate about heading off premature aging and also about providing tools and education to our patients about caring for their skin. 
 
Skin is Your Largest Organ 
It’s incredible to think that skin is your largest organ. It protects you from the outside world and literally holds you together. With a job this big, we feel it’s essential to break down the different ways we care for your approximately 8 pounds and 22 square feet of skin. (By the way, your facial skin only accounts for about one square foot of this skin.)  
 
Why We’re Passionate About It 
Some of us are passionate about skin care after seeing it improve a patient’s health or sense of self-worth and confidence. Others became passionate about taking care of your skin because it makes you look and feel great. And a few of us were teens and adults with acne who finally turned things around when we saw a dermatologist and got the medical-grade product or oral medication needed to clear it. Whatever the reason, we are all here because we’re passionate about skin health.  
 
Saving Lives 
Skin cancer has a high survival rate when it’s caught in time. That’s why we’re so passionate about encouraging our patients to come in for their annual skin check-up and doing self-checks too. Early detection saves lives.   
 
Preventing Premature Aging 
We’re passionate about preventing sun damage for two reasons. Number one, it ages your skin prematurely. The sun accounts for more than 80 percent of premature skin aging. This can take a toll on you by making you look older than you feel.  
 
Preventing DNA Damage 
The second reason we’re passionate about preventing sun damage is that the sun’s rays can change your skin’s DNA and cause cancer. This type of damage is not reversible, so we focus on prevention and treatment to help our patients live their healthiest lives.  
 
Providing Tools 
We’re passionate about providing tools and education to our patients on how to care for their skin. Our website, newsletter, and blog are our way to have ongoing communication with our patients about fun and important ways to take care of their skin.   
 
Our Passion 
West Dermatology is passionate about skin care, and many of us have turned our passion into a career. Whether we’re dermatologists, nurses, medical assistants, aestheticians, or front office staff. The one thing we have in common is our passion for skin health.   
 
Join the hundreds of West Dermatology patients who have scheduled their annual skin check-up. And while you’re at it, have a little fun and ask your dermatologist what skincare products they recommend for your skin care routine.  

New Year New Skin IPL Event

It’s a New Year which means it’s time to reset your skincare goals! Come say goodbye to pesky skin discoloration once and for all during our IPL Event January 10 – 29th.
With exclusive discounts on one of our most popular treatments, the IPL Intense Pulsed Light, it’s time to say ‘Hello New Year New Skin’ and get you (and your friends) glowing again!
OFFERS:
– Get $75 OFF 1st IPL area
– Get $50 OFF 2nd IPL area
*excludes partial and spot treatments
– Raffle prizes
– $50 OFF post-treatment pigment correcting serum + sunscreen. Shop here.
– West Dermatology IPL Bundle: $129 for vitamin c brightening serum + antioxidant moisturizing sunscreen. Shop here.
Learn more about IPL here.
If you have any questions, give us a call for more details or book your appointment down below. We’re excited to see you there!
Participating Clinics:
Carlsbad
Rancho Santa Margarita
Palm Springs
Rancho Mirage

Telehealth and the Patient Experience

Recently our very own Dr. Julie Hodge at Hodge Dermatology was interviewed by The Dermatology Digest about balancing the benefits of technology with the continued need for human connection. While technology has allowed practicing physicians to continue to provide care during the pandemic, it has revealed some limitations. Read on to learn about what Dr. Hodge believes to be the key to fostering the patient relationship during this time.
To read the article or watch the video of Dr. Hodge, click here.

Pucker & Pout 💗

Love your Lips this month with this exclusive promo!
PUCKER & POUT
$75 OFF first filler syringe
$125 OFF two filler syringes
Receive a FREE West Dermatology Plumping Lip Treatment with your filler purchase ($40 value) – select clinics only, see below
Participating Clinics:
  • Carlsbad – offering FREE lip plumper w/ purchase
  • Encinitas – offer FREE lip plumper w/ purchase
  • Newport Beach
  • RSM
  • Rancho Mirage
  • Riverside
  • Los Alamitos
  • San Clemente
**Cannot be combined with any other offer. Providers choice of filler.
Offer valid February 1 – 28th, 2022

Frequent Washing Drying Out Your Hands? Some Quick Ways to Stay Moisturized.

Raise your hand if your (very clean) hands feel dry. 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ You’re not alone. In an attempt to keep ourselves and others safe, we’ve been sanitizing and washing more than ever. With all of the alcohol in hand sanitizer, harsh soaps, and warm water, our hands are more susceptible to extreme dryness, and it can get really uncomfortable. We thought we would give a lending hand with our tips to keep your hands soft and hydrated during this time. 
 
Seal in the moisture! Immediately apply a cream or ointment to the hands post-washing. Doing this will seal in the moisture from water and keep your skin hydrated. 
 
Use a fragrance-free cream or ointment instead of a lotion. This is because fragrances can be irritating to sensitive, chapped skin, and creams and ointments lock in moisture and protect the skin more so than a lighter lotion. 
 
Try to use a hand sanitizer with a moisturizing base. These types of hand sanitizers have emollient ingredients to nourish the skin and sometimes humectant ingredients like aloe vera.
 
Use cotton gloves. Before going to bed, apply your cream or ointment, like Vaseline or petrolatum product, and cover your hands with cotton gloves. This works similar to a mask as the ointment nourishes hands and the gloves protect your skin from external objects. This can be fun and relaxing to do while you’re on the couch watching Netflix at night. 
 
If you are struggling with extreme skin dryness or have any other skin related concerns, call your local clinic today so we can answer any questions you may have or schedule an appointment for you.

Dry Winter Skin Tips 🌾

With chillier temperatures, you may be experiencing more skin dryness than usual. Environmental factors like low humidity and wind can draw the moisture out of your skin, leaving it dull, flaky, itchy, and even cracked. Turn on that indoor heating system and it will make those problems even worse. 
While, sadly, we can’t control the weather, we can give you our best dermatologist-approved advice on sealing moisture into
skin, even as temperatures continue to drop. Here are 5 simple steps: 
  
  • Cleanse gently, only when needed. If you wash your face twice daily in the summer, you might wash it just once daily in the winter. 
  • Choose a more hydrating facial moisturizer. The water-based formulas that fly off the shelves in summer might not cut it during these colder months. 
  • Use a humidifier. Reintroduce much-needed moisture into the air with a humidifier. Your skin (and your sinuses) will thank you. 
  • Apply lotion right after showering. It will give you the best chance of sealing moisture into your skin.    
  • Continue to wear sunscreen. Short winter days can still be sunny days, and your skin is still vulnerable to sun damage in the cooler months.  
 
If you have any questions about moisturizing your skin or you still don’t feel your best after following the steps above, just give us a call. Schedule an appointment today!  
 
Happy Hydrating! 

You’re Invited to our Festive & Flawless Holiday Event! 🌟

You’re Invited to our Festive & Flawless Holiday Event from Nov 29 – Dec 10th! With exclusive deals on treatments and skincare running, those twinkle lights will have some serious competition against your radiant glow this season!
Schedule Your Appointment HERE
$50 OFF 30 units or more of Botox
$75 OFF 40 units or more of Botox
$125 OFF 2 syringes of filler
$25 OFF Each for referring a friend that is new to West Dermatology (Applicable to your next visit)
20% OFF All skincare products
RAFFLE PRIZES
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