Director of Nursing, Nancy Benton, LPN, and newest staff member at The Center for Positive Aging, Ginna Reep, RN, recently completed training in laser skin therapies and the use of BOTOX®, Dysport™ and dermal fillers to enhance facial beauty. This training, held in Aventura, Florida was provided jointly by the Ageless Aesthetic Institute and the Aesthetic Anti-Aging Fellowship of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M). Dr. Bowen served on the faculty of this training.

Also on the faculty of their training was Patrick Bitter, M.D., of California, the physician who invented the “FotoFacial”, known generically as Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) or Broadband Light (BBL™) laser skin treatment.

Dr. Bitter shared his extensive experience (roughly 15,000 cases) of providing BBL™ treatments, noting that no supplement, drug, or cream has the effect, over time, of even one BBL™ treatment. Dr. Bitter has documented lasting improvement in skin appearance, the reversal of signs of aging and a reduced risk of non-melanoma cancer of the skin in patients treated with BBL™ therapy. In fact, skin biopsies have shown that gene expression from skin treated with BBL™ resembles that of the healthy skin of a 20 year old.

BBL™ is a minimal downtime procedure; the area treated feels warm and looks somewhat red for several hours, and abnormal skill cells flake away over the course of a week. Treatment is done in a series of 2-3 treatments over several months’ time, with treatments spaced several weeks apart. BBL™ effectively treats red and brown discolorations of the skin, which are associated with sun damage, aging, and conditions like rosacea.