COSMETIC PROCEDURES

FOR THE FACE
This is a procedure that rejuvinates the ageing face. Facial Aging Can be attributed to one or a combination of factors such as sagging of skin, loss of facial volume and changes in skin quality.

FOR THE BODY
This is a procedure to reduce the size and enhance the shape of large and often drooping breasts.

NON-SURGICAL PROCEDURES
Botox injections are a minimally invasive technique to reduce facial lines caused by muscle activity.

RECONSTRUCTIVE PROCEDURES
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PLASTIC SURGEON CAPE TOWN | STUART GELDENHUYS

PROCEDURE-FOCUS | BOTOX

Botox: A Four-Month Fix

First approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1990 for treating eye muscle spasms, botox showed its cosmetic potential almost immediately, when patients with their eye on ophthalmologic gains noticed their wrinkles softening.

The toxin that could block nerve impulses to temporarily paralyze certain misfiring eye muscles, it turned out, could also be directed to disable those muscles that form "crow's feet" around the eyes, wrinkle lines on the forehead and frown lines between the eyebrows.

Ten years after it initially hit the market, botox is one of the most popular cosmetic medical procedure in the United States; almost 800,000 Americans got the injections in 2000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

With California-based Allergan Inc. expecting approval of botox for cosmetic use shortly, the ASPS predicts that the product's popularity "could increase exponentially."Botox can iron out wrinkles earned over years of facial movements, such as smiling and frowning, concentrating and squinting. In addition to the most popular complaints — furrows between the eyebrows, crow's feet and forehead lines — women in particular get botox injections to correct some imperfections of their lips and necks. Recently, botox has found yet another use: a "chemical brow lift" to restore the arch to falling eyebrows. (Outside the cosmetic sphere, botox is used not only for muscle control, but also to treat migraine headaches and other types of pain and to eliminate excessive sweating, or "hyperhydrosis.")

ABOUT DR GELDENHUYS

After Dr Geldenhuys completed his internship in 1991 he spent some time working in the UK as Senior House Officer, before returning to South Africa and taking up the post of Registrar in General Surgery (1995) and subsequently Plastic Surgery (1999) at the University of Cape Town. He was appointed as Senior Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town in 2003. He left this position in April 2006 to concentrate on his private practice but maintains an interest as a part-time consultant in registrar training of reconstructive techniques and cosmetic surgery.

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RENAISSANCE SURGICAL CLINIC

The Renaissance Surgical Clinic is a fully accredited, Private Day Clinic offering exclusively cosmetic and dental surgery.

The Clinic is situated on the first floor of the prestigious Renaissance Body Science Institute in the heart of the 'mother city', situated a mere 15 minutes from Cape Town International Airport, 5 minutes from the well known V&A Waterfront and Table Mountain cableway and close to many other local attractions.