Aesthetic Treatments & Surgery

How can I benefit from aesthetic services?

Aesthetic services help you look and feel your absolute best. Arthur K Balin, MD, PhD, PC, offers services that reduce lines and wrinkles, fill in thinning features, lift sagging skin, remove isolated areas of unwanted fat, and help you achieve a glowing complexion.

Arthur K Balin, MD, PhD, PC, offers custom services to patients 20 and older. You can schedule a consultation to learn how he can help you refine your look and achieve your aesthetic goals.

Which aesthetic services are available?

Arthur K Balin, MD, PhD, PC, provides aesthetic services to improve your skin health, physique, and overall appearance. Your treatment plan may include:

Ellacor®

Arthur K Balin, MD, PhD, PC, is one of the first physicians in the Philadelphia area to offer Ellacor, a revolutionary new technology that gives you the effects of a facelift without surgery. Your skin looks more youthful and lifted without major downtime, blood loss, or scarring.

The technology uses the advanced Micro-Coring™ technology to remove micro-cores of skin. The result is a vast improvement in the appearance of wrinkling. You get natural but noticeable results without excessive pain and extended recoveries associated with surgical procedures.

Botox®

Botox is an injectable aesthetic that contains a purified form of a neurotoxin. When placed strategically, Botox temporarily halts dynamic wrinkling when you smile, frown, or wince.

Dermal Fillers

Dermal fillers plump your skin to hide lines and wrinkles and fill in hollowing areas. The dermal fillers offered at the practice include Restylane® and Juvederm®. They use a form of hyaluronic acid (HA), a compound your body produces in your youth.

Liposuction and lipo injection

Liposuction is a minor surgical procedure that removes unwanted fat from targeted areas of your body. You might choose to slim your belly, thighs, or upper arms with the procedure.

Following liposuction, lipo injection takes this fat and places it in areas where you desire curves, such as your buttocks.

Kybella® – Injections for improving submental fullness

Your profile may make you feel heavier or older than you actually are since submental fullness (fat under the chin) lingers even if you live a healthy lifestyle. Kybella is an FDA-approved treatment to reduce unwanted chin fat.

Venus Viva – Fractional RF microneedling (to improve acne scarring and fine lines and wrinkles)

Fractional RF microneedling is a minimally invasive procedure that harnesses your body’s ability to heal itself. The treatment uses a device affixed with an array of very fine, sterilized needles to create microscopic wounds in your dermis (middle skin layer). The device also sends radiofrequency (RF) energy to bolster healing and cellular turnover.

Call Arthur K Balin, MD, PhD, PC, today or schedule an appointment online to explore the benefits of aesthetic services in more detail.

Venus Viva for Acne Scaring, Facial Rejuvenation & Wrinkles

This non-surgical approach to aesthetic surgery facilitates the correction of facial thinning by augmenting muscle volume with fat, restoring a youthful look.

Kybella Procedure

Kybella injections are used to target fat that is underneath the chin. No incisions are required and most patients experience minimal downtime.

Microneedling Treatment

Microneedling is a minimally invasive procedure using thin needles. The procedure can help reduce the appearance of skin concerns such as acne scars, stretch marks or wrinkles. Most people get microneedling for aesthetic purposes, but it can also help with some medical conditions.

Subcision

This short procedure involves an incision in the subcutaneous region to remove unsightly excess scar tissue.

Dermabrasion

A surgical procedure removes damaged skin allowing a new layer of fresh skin to the surface. This is an effective treatment for facial scarring and rhinophyma.

Juvederm

Juvederm filler injections just below the skin surface, filling in unwanted lines and wrinkles and adding definition to the lip border. With ongoing treatments, Juvederm is gradually absorbed by the body, and your face returns to its original contours.

Lipoinjection

This procedure uses the patient’s own fat injected into depressions and wrinkles. When injected into the back of hands or cheeks, it will restore the thickness of the skin and help cover unsightly blood vessels that become prominent as the skin ages. By using one’s own fat, there are no allergic reactions, and a portion of the fat injected takes root, grows, and persists.

How do laser treatments work?

Lasers change how light waves move. They concentrate the movement of these waves in a singular direction, so they have more power and energy.

The types of dermatological concerns laser treatments can help with include:

• Unwanted hair
• Uneven skin texture and scarring
• Vascular lesions (varicose and spider veins)
• Irregular pigmentation, including age spots and melasma
• Lines, wrinkles, and sun damage

Laser treatments require minimal downtime after each session, allowing you to conveniently schedule visits to address your goals.

What laser treatments are available?

Arthur K Balin, MD, PhD, PC, offers a wide variety of state-of-the-art laser treatments, including:

Intense pulsed light (IPL)

IPL effectively erases discoloration, like age spots and freckles, as well as spider veins, birthmarks, and rosacea.

UltraPulse®

Ultrapulse is a powerful CO2 ablative laser that dramatically improves your skin’s texture and tone. It can also reduce the appearance of fine lines.

Vbeam® Laser

The Vbeam laser delivers quick bursts of gentle laser energy to reduce redness and the appearance of veins.

MedLite®

Medlite is a laser that offers total skin renewal. It targets discoloration and stimulates collagen production. The practice uses it to correct melasma and sun damage.

YAG laser

YAG laser treatments can resurface your skin to treat fine lines and wrinkles, acne or surgical scars, skin laxity, and irregular pigmentation. Some YAG lasers are ablative, meaning they remove the surface layer of your skin, revealing fresh skin and stimulating healing.

Others are nonablative, which means the laser leaves the outer layer of your skin intact as the energy targets the layers beneath to induce healing.

CO2 laser resurfacing

CO2 lasers remove thin layers of skin without damaging surrounding structures. The treatment addresses sun damage, scars, warts, birthmarks, and wrinkles.

Titan®

The Titan laser tightens lax and sagging skin in areas like your jaw, knees, forehead, neck, and abdomen.

Laser hair removal

Laser hair removal targets hair follicles. You may consider laser hair removal to achieve smooth skin in areas like your underarms, pubic area, upper lip, and back. After just a few sessions, you experience a significant reduction in unwanted hair, so shaving, waxing, and plucking are no longer necessary.

Call Arthur K Balin, MD, PhD, PC, today or schedule an appointment online to find out which laser treatments can help you achieve your aesthetic vision.