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Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

406: The Future of Bioregenerative Therapies w/ Board-Certified Dermatologist Dr. Ava Shamban

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

Business, Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Arts, Management & Marketing, Medicine

4.9608 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hey Beauties! On this week's episode of Beauty Bytes we are talking about the future of regenerative medicine with Dr. Ava Shamban. Dr. Ava Shamban is a board-certified dermatologist who believes that appearance and self-esteem are one and the same. She dedicates herself to helping patients worldwide heal their skin to live happier lives. She makes regular television appearances on CBS’s The Doctors and ABC’s Extreme Makeover, and is a frequently quoted health and beauty expert in magazines all over the world.

If you were interested in learning about cosmetic dermatology, our perspectives on the philosophy of beauty, her clinical research, Qwo, threads, or bioregenerative therapies, make sure to listen on!

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0:00.0

And Eva, I did not know you were licensed to practice medicine in California, New York, Illinois, Colorado, and Hawaii.

0:20.8

All the great states. Yeah, right, New York, Illinois, Colorado, and Hawaii. All the great states.

0:22.8

Yeah, right. By design. By design, that's exactly right. That's amazing. And she's regularly on all

0:29.7

kinds of TV shows, including the doctors, the Steve Harvey show, Extra. She's on extreme makeover.

0:37.0

I love that. And she's now's now like sold in every hotel her

0:40.8

skincare line is on every TV and every hotel I visit around the world one of my favorite things

0:47.2

people call me and they'll say so you're in my hotel room with me I'm like well I am, I am. I get around. I'm like Santa Claus. I show up everywhere.

0:58.3

You're such a boss girl. You trained at Case Western University at Harvard, Harvard Medical School.

1:04.3

You did fellowship in dermatology. I was Harvard undergrad. Case Western was medical school.

1:10.1

Oh, okay. Well, that still counts. Still park your car in the Harvard undergrad. Case Western was the medical school. Oh, okay. Well, that still counts. Still, park your car in the Harvard yard.

1:15.0

Love it. And then you did a dermatology fellowship and study. What did you study in your fellowship?

1:20.2

I studied elastin expression, so the protein in the skin that gives you the snapback quality and also collagen down at harbor

1:28.6

UCLA with my mentor looking at just various connective tissue issues wow I love that we don't

1:35.2

talk nearly enough about elastin we're all obsessed with collagen but tell me a little bit about

1:40.5

your quest to grow more elastin for the skin so it's very

1:45.0

interesting because even though elastin so collagen makes up the majority of

1:49.3

skin it's 70% of the dry weight of skin and elastin only makes up 2% of the

1:55.0

skin but it's really when the elastin content goes down that's when you start to see

2:00.0

sort of the sagging happening when you down, that's when you start to see sort of the sagging happening,

2:02.6

when you lose your, you know, when you develop laxity.

2:06.2

And so by restoring elastin levels, that will really help with kind of the lifting and the tightening

2:12.3

and how tight the skin fits over all of the underlying structures.

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