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Kisses Sweeter than Chocolate

Soft, flickering candlelight. The smell of dark chocolate Godiva. Alicia Keys teasing your ears in the background. This may sound like a perfect recipe for romance, but don't forget the most important ingredient, kissable, soft, pouty lips. Valentine's Day tends to shift our thinking towards our alluring qualities, and . . . those features that could use a little revving up. Nothing can entice quite like a pair of "come-hither" lips. An unknown author expressed this sentiment beautifully, "Her kisses left something to be desired... the rest of her." Filling material works beautifully to both enhance the lips inherited from mom or dad AND correct age-associated changes.

Current cultural ideals of beautiful lips favor a1:3 ratio of the upper lip to the lower lip. At Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center, we listen carefully to the specific concerns of our patients. This allows us to derive a unique plan that incorporates your personal taste and our artistic, professional opinion. Let's face reality. Not everyone showcases Angelina Jolie lips flatteringly. Most of the time, the natural shape and contour of the lips need only minor tweaking. In these cases lip enhancement can be achieved by increasing the definition in the lip border, accentuating the subtle, dumbbell shape in the lower lip, or creating a soft pillow in the center of the upper lip.

Lip correction involves addressing signs of aging, such as elongation of the upper lip and drooping of the corners of the mouth. Whether or not a patient smokes, vertical lip lines can develop giving the illusion of a synched up purse. Generalized thinning of the upper and lower lip leads to a less defined cupid's bow.

Juvederm and Restylane, hyaluronic acid fillers, volumize as well as tackle stubborn "smoker's lines". For patients who desire dramatic lip enlargement, Perlane, a hyaluronic acid filler with a larger molecular structure, provides more volumizing per syringe than other hyaluronic acid fillers. The most important aspect of lip enhancement is choosing an experienced injector and making sure you articulate the changes you desire.

Sampling rich chocolate is great. Sampling rich chocolate with a great pair of lips? Better.



Monthly Education
Raging Hormones, Raging Acne

From a dermatology perspective, there is no question as to the pivotal role that hormones play in both male and female acne. As levels of testosterone rise during puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, stress, or menopause, sebaceous glands enlarge and begin to produce more oil. This overproduction of oil will often lead to blockage of the pore and accumulation of bacteria. Blackheads, whiteheads, nodules, and cysts all begin with abnormal sebaceous gland activity.

Fortunately for you men out there, these hormone surges seem to almost exclusively occur during adolescence, which, although frustrating and embarrassing, are transient. As hormone levels even out in the early to mid-twenties, acne flares will almost always subside, enabling men to grow out of acne.

Women, on the other hand, tend to grow into acne. As we age, we produce increasingly higher amounts of testosterone, an ovarian source of androgen, and DHEAS, an adrenal source of androgen, up until our mid-thirties. Not only does this account for chin and jawline cystic outbreaks, increased facial oiliness, and premenstrual flares, this may lead to increased facial hair growth and scalp hair loss. Additionally, hormonal acne treatments, such as birthcontrol pills and spironolactone can be extremely effective acne reducers, with most women noticing benefit within 7-10 days of treatment.

At Sutton Ryan Dermatology and Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center, we also offer our patients chemical peels and acne surgery with microdermabrasion, two great options, often covered by insurance, that not only speed clearance of acne, but reduce the scarring sequelae associated with inflammatory and cystic lesions. Medical grade skin care products are also sold in our office to assist in healthier more glowing skin. For all types of acne, male or female, with or without hormonally dictated flares, Sutton Ryan Dermatology is here to help. Come see us. We're prepared for acne battle.


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PROCEDURE OF THE MONTH


Buy 2 Obagi Blue Peels and receive the 3rd FREE!

The Obagi Blue Peel is a new innovation for restoring healthier and more beautiful skin. The Obagi Blue Peel uses a slow-acting TCA (trichloroacetic acid) solution applied to the skin to remove dead skin cells and stimulate the production of new skin cells. Since TCA is not absorbed through the skin, there are no internal toxic effects. It tightens the skin, reduces wrinkling and renews a more youthful appearance.




Schedule Your Free Consultation!


A FREE consultation at Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center can change your skin forever! We will educate you on how the skin and structures of the skin age. We identify your skin type, ways to improve wrinkles, sun damage and loss of volume. All of these can be improved by utilizing our skin care products, Fraxel Laser Treatments, chemical peels and microdermabrasion. Please call today to set up your complimentary consultation. Change your skin's health today by asking the skin care specialists at Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center. 402-484-0908.





May is Melanoma Awareness Month!


The first Monday in May, designated by the American Academy of Dermatology as Melanoma Monday, marks the beginning of an entire month devoted to educating, researching, and preventing melanoma.   In the United States, one person dies of melanoma every hour.  With melanoma expected to claim 8,420 lives this year, this underrecognized lethal form of skin cancer needs our attention.   The Melanoma Message is a hopeful one - if detected early enough (before lymph node spread), melanoma is often curable, with a 99% 5-year survival rate.  As dermatologists, we feel a strong burden to inform our patients of ways to prevent melanoma and signs and symptoms of suspicious moles to enhance early detection.  

Melanoma Defined
Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer derived from uncontrolled growth of pigment-producing cells.  It can arise from existing moles or spontaneously develop in previously normal-appearing skin.  Accounting for 75% of all skin cancer related deaths, melanoma spreads rapidly from skin to lymph nodes.  Currently, it is the most common form of cancer in young adults aged 25-29.  

High Risk Individuals
The classic melanoma patient is a fair-complected, freckled redhead with a personal history of severe childhood burns.  High risk patients also have a personal or family history of multiple abnormal moles or melanoma.  Although melanoma risk increases with age, we have seen melanomas as young as 4 years of age and in every skin type. 

Unprotected exposure to ultraviolet radiation is the most important preventable precursor for melanoma, especially when exposure results in sunburn.  We're not advocating complete sun avoidance.  Rather, we want our patients to exercise their "Sun Smarts." 

Here are some helpful tactics:

  • Avoid the peak sun hours from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
  • Wear protective clothing, including a hat and sunglasses.
  • Apply sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or higher 20 minutes prior to sun exposure.
  • Reapply sunscreen every one - two hours if engaged in water or sweat-provoking activities or if exposed to direct sunlight.
  • Wear sunscreen on all sunexposed areas daily.

How to Recognize Melanoma
The "ugly duckling sign" is a great way to identify unusual moles by looking for skin lesions that don't match the existing pattern of moles located over the entire body.  Another effective screening strategy is to use your A-B-C-D-E's.  If you notice a mole on your skin, look for these warning signs:
  • Asymmetry - one half does not match the other.
  • Border irregularity - the edges are ragged, notched or blurred.
  • Color - the pigmentation is not uniform.  Different shades of tan, brown or black exist in the same mole.
  • Diameter - moles larger than 6 mm are more suspicious, but melanomas can also be small.
  • Evolution - a changing mole; it enlarges, itches, bleeds, or changes color.

When suspicious moles haunt you, get them checked.   Take it a step further.  Check your moles monthly and allow us to screen your moles on an annual basis. Let's spread the word on melanoma and help prevent melanoma from spreading through Lincoln, Nebraska.   


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Sutton Ryan now offers Colorescience Products!


Sutton Ryan Dermatology and Aesthetic Center is excited to now offer Colorescience products. Some of the products will include:
  • Mineral Makeup in 6 colors
  • Sun Protection
  • Brush Cleaner

Colorescience uses colors from nature, micronized mineral color pigments that reflect light so that the color softens feature and give the skin a youthful glow! Colorescience products have a positive effect on the condition of your skin. The products are naturally anti-inflammatory and sooth your skin while helping to keep it clean.

Discover the magic of minerals with Colorescience's original loose mineral formulas that are fast, easy and contain SPF! Colorescience's makeup has been created by professional makeup specialists who have grouped the makeup colors into a range of categories to work with ALL SKIN TYPES!

These products can be purchased on our web site at www.suttonryan.com or in our office at 1710 South 70th Street.


History of SRAC!


SRAC Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary

Just two years ago, Dr. Margaret Sutton's vision of a cosmetic division of Sutton Ryan Dermatology became a reality.  Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center started with a full team of  caring medical professionals committed to providing cosmetic services in a safe, clinical setting.   Initially, SRAC provided laser hair removal, facial and leg vein treatment, skin tightening, BOTOX® injections, Restylane, Cosmoderm, and Cosmoplast fillers, IPL treatment of brown spots, chemical peels, microdermabrasion, and several skin care lines, including Neostrata, Kinerase, and Skin Medica.  



In addition to the above mentioned procedures and products, Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center now offers FRAXEL® laser treatments to treat acne scars, crepiness of the skin, fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes and mouth, pore size, brown spots, and even stretch marks.  We have also achieved several firsts for the Lincoln area by introducing Sculptra, the "face-lift in a bottle", and becoming a Platinum provider of BOTOX®.   As a compliment to our existing skin care lines, SRAC brought on Obagi, a transformative holistic skin care line, and Colorscience, the highest quality mineral make-up with excellent sunblocking capabilities.



Come join us on the 26th of June for an entire day devoted to advanced BOTOX® injections, celebration of SRAC's growth, and interaction with professionals who love what they do. Dr. Sutton and Rebecca Reinke, two of the top injectors in the state of Nebraska, will provide onsite BOTOX® consultation and treatments at 20% off the regular price.  Don't allow this great opportunity to pass you by. Also join us on June 27th from 10am-2pm for our Open House. You can stop in and register for give-a-ways including: A Free BOTOX® Treatment, an Obagi NuDerm Skin  Kit (a $434 value) and (3) $100 Gift Certificates. We will also be offering 15% off all products and procedures scheduled that day. We will be providing food and tours of our facility to new patients, so bring your friends!

Thank you for your support and for contributing to SRAC's success!



BOTOX® offers a reason to Give Thanks this holiday season


Most of us know that BOTOX®  relaxes frown lines, softens crow's feet, and can lift our brows.  Those benefits alone are pretty extraordinary, but as of September 2008, we've discovered a new perk to BOTOX®  injections, reduction in facial pore size and facial shine.   

Effect on pore size was first noted in the treatment of "bunny lines", those tiny lines across the bridge of the nose occurring when we flex our nasalis muscle.  Patients injected in this area noticed less shine and reduced pore size, prompting more study into other areas of enlarged facial pores.  

Pore size and excess oil production have been notoriously difficult facial conditions to treat.  Although many different techniques have been employed, outcomes have not always been consistent.  Dermatologists attribute these inconsistencies in results to the location of the oil gland in the deep portion of the skin, an area not easily treated with lasers.  BOTOX® , on the other hand, is injected right into the superficial to deep layers of the skin, requires no downtime, and produces consistently beautiful results.

This is just one more reason to consider BOTOX®  this holiday season.  



Forbes.com






Bad Economy Gives BOTOX® A Lift
06.24.08, 2:40 PM ET

The economy may be sagging, but that doesn't mean your skin has to.



Yes, despite a spurt of bad press about adverse reactions and all the late-night humor, demand for BOTOX®, the injectable drug used to perk up aging faces, is rising. And the doctors who offer it may have the downturn to thank.





A recent survey of dermatologic surgeons found growing demand for BOTOX®, laser procedures and fillers this year, even as a survey of plastic surgeons found that demand for their pricier procedures dropped dramatically. BOTOX® sales jumped 13% last quarter to $315.5 million, according to producer Allergan.



"We are seeing some people downsizing, doing a BOTOX® kind of procedure instead of a face lift," said Darell Rigel, president of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, which commissioned the study.

Jeffrey Dover, the society's vice president, said the results jived with an informal study of physicians he and a colleague presented to analysts from Deutsche Bank this spring. Dover said respondents reported a 5% to 35% drop in big-ticket procedures, while less-expensive treatments rose.

And an American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery survey this spring reported that more than half of plastic surgery practices had been adversely affected by the ailing economy, suggesting substitution is at work. Americans spent just over $13 billion on cosmetic procedures in 2007; $8.3 billion was for surgical procedures and $4.7 billion for nonsurgical procedures.



Rigel, who practices in Manhattan, sees a second economic reason for the BOTOX® bonanza: out-of-work bankers. "I'm also seeing a new set of people, [those] who have been laid off and are trying to get back into the job market and want to look great," he says, adding many of these new clients came from jobs at troubled investment houses like Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley. "It used to be less than 1% of my practice. Now it's 15 or 20."





For job seekers who can't afford the downtime of surgery, procedures like BOTOX® have the advantage of speed as well as price. Because less expensive procedures like BOTOX® are recent entrants to the catalog of cosmetics treatments, previous recessions lacked such a trade-off, but the phenomenon fits a theory discussed in another branch of cosmetics.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, lipstick manufacturers noticed an increase in sales and hypothesized that women, concerned about a downturn, were turning away from shoes and dresses, instead substituting tubes of lipstick.

But while economic forces change cosmetic decisions for some consumers, others are staying put. "Certain people have to look good and want to look good," Rigel said. "They have to go without something else."




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Fraxel® for Acne Scars


Although exceedingly common, severe acne is one of the more devastating conditions dermatology patients contend with. Even after acne has cleared, it can leave behind physical and emotional scars, battering self‐esteem from adolescence into adulthood.
For many years, there wasn't much that could be done to treat the long term sequelae of acne, but with the advent of Fraxel® Laser, patients now have a minimal downtown, nonsurgical option that often produces dramatic results. After studies confirmed that Fraxel® Laser could be much more effective than traditional therapies at stimulating collagen regeneration and removing scar tissue, the FDA approved Fraxel® Laser Treatments for acne scars.

Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center is excited to offer this gentle, nonablative treatment for patients with acne scarring of all skin types. Schedule a complementary consultation today to find out how Fraxel® Laser Treatment can rejuvenate your skin!

BOTOX®: Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center Reaches Platinum Level

Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center has been honored as Nebraska's only Platinum Level BOTOX® provider. This means just for being one of our valued BOTOX® patients, you are eligible to receive your very own BOTOX® Cosmetics Benefit Card! This exclusive card, available only at Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center, allows you to earn credit toward your next BOTOX® Cosmetic treatment.

By trusting your skin with the skin care specialists at Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center, you enjoy the following benefits:

--Savings of $25 per BOTOX® treatment if scheduled within six months of the last treatment
--Earning more reward benefits toward future BOTOX® treatments

If you want to sign up today, or have any questions about the BOTOX® benefits program, ask any one of our Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center staff.



New Arrival to Lincoln- Fraxel Laser

When doctors Margaret Kontras Sutton and Robyn Ryan of Sutton Ryan Dermatology decided to open The Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center, they did so knowing it would be the perfect compliment to the dermatology clinic.

"The aesthetic center was just a natural expansion of the dermatology clinic" says Dr. Sutton. "The aesthetic center has been open for two years now, and is doing fantastic, however, it is important to know that we have been performing many of these procedures for over ten years, and have been practicing general dermatology for over 23 years" she said. "The aesthetic center is simply a way for us to offer a clinical setting designed exclusively for cosmetic dermatology" says Dr. Sutton

The Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center offers a wide variety of cosmetic dermatological procedures. Procedures like microdermabrasion, chemical peels, BOTOX injections, skin rejuvenations, laser hair removal and various filling materials. Two of their newest procedures are the Fraxel laser and Sculptra. "We are very excited about these new procedures and how they will benefit our patients" says Rebecca Reinke, a certified physician assistant who began working at Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center in June of 2006. "We are the only clinic in Lincoln offering these treatments" says Rebecca.

The Fraxel laser treatment is an FDA approved laser procedure that is used to treat fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes, age spots, acne scars and pigmentation. Fraxel works by targeting damaged and aging areas of the skin and delivering microscopic columns of heat to the targeted area well below the skins outermost layer. "We are triggering the body's natural healing process and promoting the growth of new collagen and skin cells resulting in new, improved, healthy skin in the targeted area" says Dr. Sutton. "And because Fraxel is a minimally invasive procedure, there is very little discomfort or downtime"

Sculptra, like Fraxel, triggers the growth of collagen. Unlike Fraxel however, Sculptra is not a laser procedure. Instead Sculptra is an injectable poly-l-lactic acid that stimulates collagen growth and increases the volume of depressed areas in the face. "Like a tire that deflates over time and use, as we age we lose collagen and begin to experience skin depression such as creases, wrinkles and folds" says Dr. Sutton. According to Rebecca Reinke, "Sculptra gives the patient a non-surgical liquid facelift that over time stimulates collagen growth. It gives patients back the volume in their face, jowls and other areas they had when they were younger" "The best part of Sculptra is that it is very long lasting, around 2 years. You never have to go through the original procedure again, only minor touch ups" says Rebecca.

"A lot of what we do is offer a non surgical alternative to facial rejuvenation" says Rebecca. "Most people in Nebraska don't want to go under the knife in order to look younger" she said. "We simply offer a safe and effective alternative to surgery to give people back that healthy glowing skin they had when they were younger"


Sutton Ryan Dermatology and Sutton Ryan Aesthetic Center are located at 1710 South 70th Street. For more information or to schedule an appointment, give them a call at 402-484-0908 or visit them online at www.suttonryan.com


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