Microblading Isn’t for Our Bike Trails

Microblading Isn’t for Our Bike Trails

Around here pretty much everyone uses the bike trails, many with inline skates, aka Rollerblades. You may think that the term microblading is all about those rolling wheels.Alas, you’d get that question wrong on Jeopardy!Microblading is a form of semi-permanent...
Actinic Keratoses — Previews of Coming Attractions

Actinic Keratoses — Previews of Coming Attractions

We’re past the height of summer movie madness at the Regal Old Mill Theaters. Sometimes this summer there were so many previews, they could last 20 minutes. But when it comes to your skin — which is our reason d’etre at Deschutes — there’s a preview of something to...
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...
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...