facial Dermatology
Specialist Care for Healthy, Confident Facial Skin
Facial dermatology focuses on restoring, maintaining, and enhancing the health and appearance of your facial skin at every age. As a leading dermatologist in Sydney, Dr Liz Dawes-Higgs combines the latest evidence-based treatments with a personalised, specialist approach to help you achieve natural, healthy, and radiant skin.
What Is Facial Dermatology?
Facial dermatology is a specialised branch dedicated to diagnosing and treating conditions that affect the skin of the face. This includes medical and cosmetic concerns such as sun damage, pigmentation, facial redness, acne, scarring, and age-related changes. At Northern Sydney Dermatology & Laser, every treatment plan is tailored to your unique skin, goals, and lifestyle for optimal results.
Your personalised facial dermatology plan may include:
Skin Collagen Support: Advanced reatments that stimulate your skin’s natural collagen production, improving firmness, elasticity, and overall skin quality
Facial Volume Support: Specialist procedures to restore volume and lift, enhance facial contours, and support a refreshed, youthful appearance
Skin Lines Support: Targeted treatments to soften facial lines and wrinkles, helping your skin look smoother and more relaxed
Skin Hydration and Glow Support: Options to deeply hydrate and revitalise your skin, enhancing its natural radiance and glow
Light and Light-Based Therapies: Fractional, vascular, and pigment lasers for facial redness, pigmentation, texture, and scarring, as well as gentle light-based treatments for overall skin rejuvenation
Superficial Chemical Peels: Medical-grade peels to brighten, clarify, and even out skin tone for a smoother complexion.
Topical Skin Care: Evidence-based recommendations for cleansers, moisturisers, sun protection, and active ingredients to maintain and enhance your results at home
Regeneration (skin support treatments)
Volume, Hydration & Lift
Interested in non-surgical options to support facial volume, hydration and lift?
Collagen Support Treatments
Non-surgical treatments may help support collagen production and improve skin quality over time.
Facial Lines Support
Non-surgical treatments may help reduce the appearance of fine lines associated with facial expressions.
regeneration (Laser & Lights)
Fraxel® Dual Laser
The Fraxel Re:Store® laser is a non-ablative fractional laser for the treatment of aging and sun damaged skin. This laser will also treat acne scars and surgical scars.
V Beam Perfecta
V Beam is a pulse dye laser used to treat vascular, pigmented and certain non-pigmented lesions.
Gentle Max Pro
The Gentle Max Pro is a skin rejuvenation laser, reducing redness and pigmentation.
RadioFrequency
Fractional Radiofrequency is a customisable skin resurfacing treatment normalising the skins tone and texture.
Broadband Light (BBL)
BBL is a non-invasive treatment that targets redness, pigmentation, and sun damage to improve overall skin tone.
Q-Switched Laser
A Q-Switch laser is ideal for the treatment of melasma, pigmentation and for rejuvenation.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT)
PDT combines a light-activated cream with a special light source to treat sun damage, acne, and certain precancerous skin changes.
Ablative Scar & Rejuvenation Laser
At Northern Sydney Dermatology we have the CO2RE device from Candela.
LED Light
LED therapy uses specific wavelengths of light to promote healing, reduce inflammation, and support clearer skin.
Topical Skin Care
Topical Skin Care Advice
Keeping your skin healthy is very important. Good skin care involves using the right skin cleanser and moisturiser for your skin. Read more about these and Dr Liz's top tips for keeping your skin healthy.
Superficial Chemical Peels
A superficial chemical peel, also known as a "lunch-time peel", removes the top layer of dead skin cells. They are performed to give the skin a smoother appearance that is more even in colouration.
Skin Care Ingredients
This is a work in progress and lists skin care ingredients as I get asked about them from my patients or through instragram.