The North Shore Center for Medical Aesthetics offers four types of proven physician strength skin care products for improvement in fine facial lines; growth factor products, retinoid, alpha-hydroxy products, and products with copper peptides.
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TNS Recovery Serum, CRS Serum 10
Growth factor products contain actual growth factors which stimulate the skin to produce new collagen. Both TNS Recovery Serum and CRS Serum 10 have been shown in published human studies to have excellent efficacy. These products are good choices for most individuals with sensitive skin and can even be used around the eyes. Unlike retinoids and alpha-hydroxy acids, they do not exfoliate and to not have skin lightening effects.
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Avage, Tretinoin
Retinoids are derived from vitamin A and are the gold standard in antiaging skin care. However, these ingredients are often quite irritating on adult skin and are rarely tolerated on the skin around the eyes. When tolerated, they are still the best available antiaging products and provide stimulation of new skin collagen, exfoliation and some skin lightening effect. We recommend these drugs be used as "booster" antiaging products with a pea-sized amount spread very thin around the entire face (except the eye area) once or twice weekly. Prescription strength Avage is the most potent but also the most irritatiing retinoid available. Our budget generic tretinoin cream contains the active ingredient found in Retin A.
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Alpha Hydroxy Products; M.D. Forte, Neo Strata, Refinity
Alpha-hydroxy acid products are still excellent antiaging products. They offer all of the the same benefits which are found in retinoiid products, are a little less effective but also a litlle less irritating. We offer several physician strength antiaging moisturizing products;
- MD Forte Lotion II (12% AHA), Lotion III (18% AHA), Eye Cream (10% AHA)
- Neo Strata 15 Lotion (15% AHA), Neo Strata Lip Moisturizer
- Refinity Lotion and Cream (15% AHA with anti-irritant strontium nitrate for sensitive skin)
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Copper Peptides; Creme de la Copper, Complex Cu3
This group of antiaging products is lest potent than the ones listed above, but have been proven to be effective in human studies and can often be used by individuals with sensitive skin when other products are not tolerated. Although Creme de la Copper is a rich moisturizing product, Complex Cu3 is an even heavier moisturizer only suitable for extremely dry skin.
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