Dean Rhobaye

31/05/2022

31/05/2022

Facial Harmonisation with cosmetic fillers, anti-wrinkle injections and medical-grade skincare (images taken 3 months apart)

Often patients will say to me that they do not want to look “different” after a treatment. They really mean that they want to look better but natural, without obvious signs of having had any work done. The aim of facial aesthetics should always be about bringing out the best version of a patient’s face by enhancing their existing natural beauty and reducing the visibility of any distracting or negative features.

This case is a good example of this principle where the patient’s appearance was improved without radically changing how she looked. Her face appears less harsh, becoming softer and more refreshed after treatment while still looking very natural. The subtlety of this elegant transformation is deceptive because her procedure required careful planning and a significant amount of work (see the third image). A chin augmentation was performed to reduce the groove between the chin and lower lip, increasing her chin height and the overall length of her face to optimise her proportions. A degree of dynamic muscle discord was evident before treatment, apparent as “tension” around her mouth; this was also reduced by attenuating her mentalis strain. Her mid-face was also treated to improve the cheek contours and smoothen the transition between her medial and lateral cheek zones. Finally, the lips were reshaped and augmented.

A second principle in facial aesthetics is that the treatment must not disturb the patient’s natural facial movement and that their appearance is enhanced both at rest and during expression through careful placement of fillers (see the fourth image). Her upper and mid-face wrinkles were softened with toxin through dynamic mapping, which greatly reduces the risk of developing unnatural expressions.

This case also highlights the importance of taking a comprehensive approach to facial aesthetics that integrates advanced professional skincare. To improve her overall skin complexion, the patient was started on medical-grade antioxidants, corrective serums and a broad-spectrum sunscreen from

31/05/2022

Facial Harmonisation with cosmetic fillers, anti-wrinkle injections and medical-grade skincare (images taken three months apart)

29/04/2022

I started sculpting in my teens and have continued to sculpt to this day. The above works were the very first sculptures I ever produced. They were fine for a beginner, but I’d like to think that my sculpting skills have improved significantly since then! Obviously, there are many parallels between sculpting and facial aesthetics. For example, the ability to appreciate form, function, levels of symmetry and proportions are inherent skills that a good sculptor possesses, as are a high degree of visual-spatial awareness, artistry and perception of detail. These are the same skills that enable me to provide a highly individualised treatment approach to each of my patients with the ability to appreciate both obvious and subtle variations inherent to each face.
Both sculpting and facial aesthetics (whether surgical or non-surgical) deal with the science of facial proportions. Our perception of beauty, while partly affected by our cultural upbringing, is, in fact, innately hardwired into our brains from birth (hence the ability of infants to identify an attractive face). People wrongly assume that beauty is about symmetry when perfect symmetry is the enemy of beauty (I will talk about this more in later posts). Instead, facial aesthetics is about modifying and optimising facial proportions to create the illusion of beauty. Why “illusion”? Because beauty is a construct of the observer’s brain, or in other words, the brain’s interpretation of how closely the facial dimensions fit in with the ‘ideal’ proportions set by hundreds of thousands of years of human neurobiological evolution.
Consequently, there is a great synergy and overlap of skills as an artist and sculptor with those of being a facial aesthetics specialist, which is highly advantageous in allowing me to deliver transformative yet natural-looking results. However, it also means that a practitioner must have a reasonable degree of artistic acumen to excel at facial aesthetics. Unfortunately, this is the exception rather than the norm these days, hence one of the many reasons we see so many poor treatment results.

25/04/2022

This month I had the honour of winning two highly prestigious international awards at the 2022 Aesthetic & Anti-aging Medicine World Congress (AMWC) () in Monaco, which was a memorable evening! My first award win was for the “Best Non-Surgical Facial Beautification” category for my work using advanced injectable techniques for full facial transformation. It was then an even greater honour to have won the “Best of the Best” award for the best overall treatment result judged across all the surgical and non-surgical category winners, the ultimate accolade at this the awards ceremony. In addition to winning these two awards, I was one of three specialists shortlisted for a third category, “Best Non-Surgical Facial Rejuvenation”.

The finalists at the AMWC Awards were selected by an international panel of judges representing some of the most respected practitioners globally in aesthetic medicine and surgery. Each category finalists were then subject to double anonymised peer voting. Sixty countries were represented at the AMWC by some of the world’s best physicians and surgeons, with over one thousand applicants and one hundred and fifty-five finalists shortlisted for their innovative approaches in aesthetic and anti-ageing medicine and surgery.

However, the biggest challenge was getting two large, heavy and pointed metal objects past airport security to take back to the UK…….

25/04/2022

Chin Augmentation using Fillers