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EQUESTRIAN

February/March 2010

Orchard Cosmetic Skin Centre
Photo: Dr Maire Rhatigan - Orchard

Cosmetic Skin Centre at St James Clinic at:
St James Clinic, 68a Upper St James St, Newport, IW. Tel: [phone]

For You

www,orchardcosmetic.co.uk

Those ageing,
changing cheeks
WHEN we stare forlornly into the mirror at our

lines are dealt with gently the effect is

40-plus reflection, it may be lines around the

lovely.”

mouth and eye area that grabs our attention.

Juvederm is a very soft and gentle

"But" , says Dr Maire Rhatigan of the Orchard

filler, which gives fantastic results.

Cosmetic Skin Centre, "it can often be our

Dr Rhatigan and her registered nurse

cheeks which are letting us down."

colleague Jo Ryan have a large number

“Remember those pert, apple-like cheeks you

of very satisfied clients who would be

had as a teenager? A change in the cheeks

walking adverts for its effects – if it

is often the first signs of ageing, ” says Dr

wasn’t so subtle.

Rhatigan. “We’ve all heard of that phrase
‘everything’s going south!’”

The point is, of course, that however
good the product, if the practitioner is

Here’s something to try at home: “Draw an

inexperienced the effect can be poor. Dr

imaginary line with your finger from the inner

Rhatigan’s medical expertise means her

corner of the eye to the angle of the jaw below

clients are in safe hands.

your ear. The part of the cheek below that line

a remarkably rejuvenating effect, she finds. “I

makes a fold on the side of your mouth.”

don’t think you have to do anything drastic

Tel: [phone]

with your eyes. Decent

lines around our eyes and mouth , our cheeks

eye makeup, defining your

have begun the inexorable slide downwards.

lashes and maybe tidying

Dr Rhatigan has the answer. The injectable

Phone Máire or
Jo if you would
like to discuss
any aspect of our
treatments.

Treating the cheeks and the lips has

begins, over time, to move down, and often
So, while we may be concentrating on the

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second longer.
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up your eyebrows does

filler Juvederm Ultra restores that loss of

wonders for them. Then

volume which causes the cheek to sag and

if you have this simple

redefines the upper cheek. Juvederm is a gel

procedure for your cheeks,

which is composed of a substance which is

and your upper and lower

present in our bodies naturally and is therefore

lip lines, the years start to

very safe. It also has anaesthetic built in,

drop away.”

making the procedure comfortable and the
effects lasts around a year.
“So a simple alternative to rather more

Is it time you got your
apples back?

invasive treatments such as face lifts, jaw lifts,
neck lifts, this simple little touch-up of the

The Orchard Cosmetic

cheeks to make them more apple-like is a good

Skin Centre, at St James

thing to try.”

Clinic, 68a Upper St James’s

At the Orchard Juvederm is already used
extensively for lip lines. “People focus on our

Street, Newport, Tel: 01983
822220

lips because that’s how we communicate,”
she says, “but lip treatments have had a very
bad press. You see a lot of celebrities on TV

Article by: Roz
Whistance

with horrible lumpy bumpy lips, but when lip
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