While making healthcare decisions is often difficult in the best of circumstances, making decisions for others is even more complicated. Each of us has the ability to guide our healthcare providers and our loved ones about what we want. Advance Directives give you the ability to document the types of …
When you or someone you love is dealing with a mental health concern, sometimes it’s a lot to handle. It’s important to remember that mental health is essential to everyone’s overall health and well-being, and mental illnesses are common and treatable.
Micro-needling is the hottest new trend in skin rejuvenation. It can be used to treat fine lines and wrinkles, minimize photo aging and it improves overall skin quality. Micro-needling in an aesthetic procedure that works by creating many micro channels in the skin. This controlled micro-injury creates minimal damage to …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
With the right wavelength, appropriate settings and accurately spaced time between treatments, laser hair removal is incredibly effective and results in 90 percent permanent hair reduction. Many patients ask why this is not 100 percent. The fact is, as we age, we go through hormonal changes. These hormonal changes can …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Lip lines present some of the most challenging areas on the face to rejuvenate. Luckily, through the use of combined products and services we can finally wipe those lines away. For starters, the most conservative approach will focus on prevention.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Many people flock to spas to receive facial treatments for a purely cathartic experience. Medical grade facials (or what we call “clinical facials”) can provide the same relaxing experience with a more beneficial treatment, resulting in smoother, healthier skin. This is because clinical facials approach skin care from a health/medical …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
When you are ready to be evaluated for an aging face, give me a call. I will assess your loss of volume and your severity of descending tissue. If your tissue descent is mild, your problems can be easily addressed with Restylane Lyft, or Voluma. For lip lines there is …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Our skin is our largest organ and creates a barrier from all environmental insults. Free radicals and exposure to UVA and UVB light creates premature aging and hyperpigmentation of the skin. Hyperpigmentation is the darkening or discoloration of our skin caused by damaged melanocytes.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Let me take this opportunity to thank all of our wonderful and loyal patients and staff. This year, Owsley Plastic Surgery was voted Best of City by the Spokane Coeur d’Alene Living Magazine, and we couldn’t be more proud or more grateful.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Lip lines present some of the most challenging areas on the face to rejuvenate. Luckily, through the use of combined products and services we can finally wipe those lines away. For starters, the most conservative approach will focus on prevention.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
With the final season of the year approaching, it creates a time of reflection. We had a wonderful year in our new Coeur d'Alene location and want to thank all our beautiful patients, past and present, for another successful year. We have amazing patients and it makes coming to work …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Facial aging is an inevitable process and is characterized by volume loss, skin laxity, and surface damage. Volume loss is caused by the natural degradation of fat and bone as we age. Skin laxity is often a product of the natural slowing of collagen production combined with gravity taking its …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
As Galderma takes the helm of one fast growing injectable company, Dysport is gaining its share of the botulinum market and Perlane is now being marketed as Restylane Lyft. Restylane Lyft has recently gained FDA approval for cheek injections and as a result, has chosen to rebrand one of our …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Not all of us were blessed with big full lips, but that doesn't matter anymore. Today it is very easy to add volume to lips, either a little or a lot. However, it is always advised to add a little at a time. I generally will not add more than …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
As we lose volume, the boney structures of our face become more prominent. This process makes our facial features become hardened as we lose the softness of youthful volume. As facial volume loss progresses throughout the decades, we begin to see hollowing in the temples and the area in front …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
As summer's special events come upon us, we often find ourselves scrambling to look our best. Although there are many injectable services that can freshen you up in a hurry, I always suggest a two-week window to allow for the onset of Dysport, and the resolution of any potential bruising. …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Love your lips this summer by adding volume. You can safely and effectively achieve a plumper pout without looking "injected" by using injectable filler products such as Perlane and Restylane Silk. The treatment itself is done in office and takes about 30 minutes and includes time to numb using a …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
As we age, gravity takes its toll, spots begin to appear, we lose volume and our skin becomes more dull. A regular skin care regimen is pertinent to aging gracefully. The first and most important step in defense is sunscreen! UVA and UVB rays from the sun speed up the …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Now that summer is here, men and women both are focused on trimming, preening, plucking and shaving in order to look their best during these hot weather months. Bathing suit season is in full effect which always results in an increased emphasis on personal appearance. In honor of Father's Day, …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
The No. 1 suggestion I have for young people today is: Wear your sunscreen. In your late teens and early twenties, protection of your skin is key! Sure, your Mom chased you around with the sunscreen when you were little, but now it's up to you.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
It's that time of year... sunscreen time! Summer is clearly on its way. I don't know about you, but I have a hard time getting my teenage daughter to remember or even to care about applying sunscreen. I too am guilty of not re-applying when I'm out in the sun …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Chemical peels are a treatment in which a chemical solution is applied to the skin, forcing the skin to exfoliate and peel. The new skin is typically smoother and less wrinkled. Various peels are available including glycolic acid which targets fines lines and uneven skin tone, salicylic acid which targets …
On a cool spring evening in 1994, we sat down for a shift report on the surgical ward where the charge nurse had assigned each registered nurse a group of patients to manage during the next 12 hours. She advised me, "It's your turn to care for Mr. Reed in …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Every June, Lake County Public Health joins the rest of the nation in celebrating Men’s Health Month. The purpose of Men’s Health Month is to highlight men’s health issues and raise awareness of early detection and treatment for disease and injury prevention.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
I am a single mom and in the final months of graduate school for my practitioner license. I have two children, both honor students in a local junior high here in town. Because of my schooling and long hours at work, I decided to move in with a man to …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Former U.S. Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop said, “Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time.”
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
The number of premature births has been escalating steadily and alarmingly over the past two decades. One out of eight babies is born prematurely in the United States. Pre-term delivery can happen to any pregnant woman
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
