Platelet-Rich Plasma

Platelet-Rich Plasma

Platelets, no they’re not some Bizarro World entry into the paper plate market. Platelets, for those of you who were passing notes in biology class instead of studying, are the critical element in the blood responsible for wound repair. More specifically, platelets...
E is for Eczema

E is for Eczema

OK, so that doesn’t make sense — eczema has an X sound to start it — but no matter how you spell or say it, eczema is annoying. If it makes you any more comfortable, you’re in good company; over 30 million Americans have some form of eczema. But the itching, scaly...
Leave the Double Chin to Jabba the Hut

Leave the Double Chin to Jabba the Hut

Just about all of us have some degree of a double chin after we hit out 45th birthday or thereabouts. It’s a combination of our skin and tissue becoming looser and the development of fat cells. But you don’t have to feel like you look like Jabba the Hut. You can stop...
Building Your Eyebrows

Building Your Eyebrows

Microblading may sound like the latest craze for zipping down the streets of Bend, raising the eyebrows of bystanders. Actually, microblading is only about those eyebrows — it is a form of semi-permanent make-up designed to give the patient fuller, more defined...