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Saving Face: A Dermatologist's Guide to Maintaining a Healthier and Younger Looking Face

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Saving Face is a handy medically based guide for separating fact from fancy in facial skin and hair care. Learn what you can do for yourself by discovering the keys to adequate skin protection, proper cleansing, appropriate moisturization and smart makeup selection. Also learn what your doctor can do for you, empowering you to make more informed choices, participate more fully in your own treatment and get more for your skin healthcare dollar.

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ISBN-13:	9780595144952
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/01/2000
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

	Preface	1
	Some Facts about Skin and Skin Aging	5
Part I	What You Can do for Yourself
Chapter 1	Choosing the Right Facial Cleanser	13
Chapter 2	Fighting Dryness--The Truth about Moisturizers	23
Chapter 3	The Sun--A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing	33
Chapter 4	Choosing the Right Cosmetics for Beauty and Camouflage	47
Chapter 5	Caring for Your Hair and Scalp	61
Chapter 6	Changing Your Hair	69
Chapter 7	Fighting Oily Skin and Acne Blemishes	78
Chapter 8	Dealing with Excess Facial Hair	89
Chapter 9	Trouble-Free Shaving	99
Chapter 10	Dealing with Hair Loss	111
Chapter 11	To Facial or Not to Facial?	121
Part II	What Your Doctor Can do for You
Chapter 12	Removing Moles, Growths, Brown Spots, and Discolorations	129
Chapter 13	Eliminating Wrinkles, Scars, and "Broken" Blood Vessels	149
Chapter 14	Face-lifts, Fat Suction, and Other Plastic Surgery	167
Chapter 15	Treating Acne and Rashes	182
Chapter 16	Treating Hair Loss	204
Chapter 17	Curing Precancers and Skin Cancers	222
Chapter 18	What's New or on the Horizon	241
	Index	251

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In this sensible, chatty book, Novick, clinic chief of dermatology at Mt. Sinai hospital in Manhattan, offers practical, if unoriginal, advice on topics ranging from facial cleansers, moisturizers and sunscreens, acne and unwanted hair to face-lifts, fat suction and skin cancer treatments. The author deflates popular mythsthe regenerative benefits of topical collagen, the organic-additive mystique and the junk food-acne linkand provides physiological facts on the skin's structure and aging that will help readers to shop knowledgeably in a sometimes bewildering marketplace. Included are a particularly useful list of common cosmetic ingredients and their functions as well as descriptions of newly approved procedures like carbon dioxide-laser treatments to remove acne scars and vaporize forms of skin cancer. In a Naderesque attack against the seductive voice of Madison Avenue, Novick concedes that few wrinkle preventive measures are more effective than keeping skin moist and protected from the sun. Ultimately, readers may not be able to save their faces from the effects of aging, but they may be able to save a few dollars by practicing some of Novick's healthy skepticism. Illustrations not seen by PW. (November 12)

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