Aesthetic Medicine General Information 

WILLOW CREEK SKIN CARE(the aesthetic side of my practice) now has a blog named: UNDER MY SKIN. This blog is both personal and informative. It is a place I like to write about the goings on in my life, the world, philosophy of aesthetics and some interesting cases. Come take a look and give some feed back or tell me what you would like me to discuss with you...Dr. Rob

The Willow Creek Skin Care website is down for now but enjoing a thorough overhaul. It will be launched again at the beginning of summer.

    Let's face it, no pun intended!  We all, given a perfect world, wish to stay young looking and vibrant. Aesthetic medicine was developed to take care of the way we appear to ourselves and others. It certainly does not claim to address the inner working of our bodies, but just the external appearance.  Certainly everyone knows by now that the external is in great part a manifestation of internal organ health but environmental, nutritional, genetic, and traumatic factors also play a significant part.  Aesthetic medicine is here for you to do that. It can be done in a healthy non-harmul way. This page is dedicated to explaining the how's, why's, and wherefore's of all of these techniques.

   Anti-aging medicine is the other half so to speak of looking and feeling young.  Its role is to counteract the effects of aging on the neurological and endocrine system with an emphasis on neuro-transmitter and hormone replacement therapies and nutraceutical supplementation. 

   Aesthetic medicine can be broken down into two distinct categories; surgical and non-surgical.  In the first, surgical: we have structural repair, liposuction, and implants.      
   
   The second, non-surgical has recently  come to the forefront of medicine because of the "no down time" aspect, the recent scientific and clinical advances in techniques and products, and the relative inexpense compared with the surgical alternative.  Of course it cannot completely replace surgery but it offers patients both alternatives to and even additions to surgery.  Non-surgical aesthetic medicine includes: Mesotherapy, Broad band light or Intense pulsed light, Laser, Facial fillers, Cosmeceuticals, Nerve paralyzers(Botox), and Spa type treatments(face peels, clay packs, face massages, waxing, etc).