A New Era in Dental Wellness
Most everyone has heard the term “extreme makeover,” whether it’s a flipped family home, a body modification, or a new smile, the overhaul is often a grand event. Now, Dr. Jill Wade is venturing into the field and applying it to your health and wellness. While it may seem strange for a dentist of thirty years to move into a space beyond the teeth, Dr. Wade believes in treating the whole person, not just one aspect, part, or piece of them. In her dental practice at Stonebriar Smile Design, she inspires confidence in her patients by transforming their smiles. Now, she wants to do the same with additional services beyond oral health.
In fact, Dr. Wade frequently teams up with functional doctors, such as cardiologists, ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialists, and other medical experts to address health concerns for her patients, some of which have oral indicators. Some of her findings have direct links to your sleeping and breathing patterns, snoring, and more severe health conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. “We cover the gamut,” says Dr. Wade. “These products we’ve brought into the dental office…are great, new treatments that are noninvasive.” She goes on to explain that these procedures require little to no downtime at all and render great results in a short period of time.
Holistic Dental and Wellness Care
Health and wellness expert Laura Lewis-Edwards has first-hand experience with Stonebriar Smile Design, having been treated by Dr. Jodi Dana at the Frisco, Texas, office right outside of Dallas. You’ll also find another location at the Dallas/Fortworth Metroplex. “[You’re] combining your dentistry, aesthetics, and wellness all together, creating that beautiful package that doesn’t involve you going into the operating room,” she states. “This is science, body science, skin science, muscle science.”
Dr. Jill Wade’s expansion into a dental wellness spa includes “one incredible device called the Emface,” she reveals. This device is a great substitute for traditional facelifts, providing a noninvasive option for facial rejuvenation by using electromagnetic stimulation. It may also use radio frequency for heat. “That just helps to bring blood to the area to encourage healing and collagen and tightening,” Dr. Wade explains.
In your youthful years, your skin is often plump, vibrant, and may carry a more triangular shape, an unconscious, maybe even primitive, marker for beauty. However, as you age, your facial muscles “begin to lose some of their tone and begin to follow gravity and drop down, [and] the lower part of [your] face gets heavier,” Dr. Jill Wade reveals. This, quite literally, changes the shape of your face due to the lack of or lesser amounts of collagen (think of it as a plumping agent), which sometimes creates jowls, facial lines, and wrinkles.
Surgery vs the Machine: The Difference Between Traditional Facelifts and Emface
The Emface device helps to stimulate those muscles using applicators that are placed on the face, and the stimulation will begin to “defy gravity” and pull your face upwards, toning and tightening the skin. Surgical facelifts have the same aim, only those procedures are much more invasive, carry more risk, and require much more downtime to fully heal. So, instead of removing portions of skin to pull the face tighter, the Emface device works under the skin on your own muscles, kind of like going to the gym to tone your body. Some benefits to this procedure include:
- Affordability: Traditional facelifts come at a great cost due to surgical fees and hospital stays. Using Emface can be done within an office setting, which is a considerably lower cost.
- Procedure Time: An Emface procedure takes 30 minutes or less, whereas the average surgical facelift could take anywhere from four to six hours to complete.
- Recovery: Surgical facelift recovery time can vary, but may be as much as several weeks. Conversely, an Emface procedure allows you to immediately resume all activity. You could even have it done on your lunch break and go back to work the same day.
Other factors to consider regarding an Emface procedure versus a traditional facelift is that your procedure won’t require an anesthesiologist and an operating table. This noninvasive facelift requires “between four and six treatments, about one week apart. So we’re not talking months and months and months of continual treatment over and over and over again. We’re talking about a baseline foundational, kind of like having a workout trainer and getting those muscles reignited, and then letting them have about 90 days to…microscopically, [do] what they’re supposed to do,” explains Dr. Jill Wade, DDS, MAGD. After that time period, you’ll be able to compare your before-and-after photos and appreciate all the changes.
The Emface Is Not Just a Beauty Tool
If you’re more interested in functional progress rather than cosmetic, Dr. Wade is also using the Emface device to help with “this submental area; that area right around the chin. “What we are doing is combining that with our snore and sleep techniques. Because, as we age, this whole area is what supports good, healthy breathing in the back of our throat. The muscle, or this hammock…gets loose and can make you snore more [and] impede your breathing. So we are including this now into our whole sleep and snore and more package, which just is brilliant,” she states.
The budget-friendly applicators of the Emface make it a stand-out, not just as a wallet-conscious option, but it can also aid in relieving pain for people who suffer from temporomandibular joint disorders (TMJ) or Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD). Dr. Wade is bundling these services and their benefits, which include pain management, night guards to ward against teeth-grinding or other sleep and dental issues, and other Nociceptive Trigeminal Inhibition (NTI) devices.
Surprisingly, the scope of this device goes beyond oral and dental treatment. It can also help with strengthening your pelvic floor, especially for those who are having incontinence or similar bladder control issues. You may struggle with this as a result of aging or child-bearing, causing the pelvic muscles to relax, loosen, or tire. Whether you’re experiencing a tinge of leakage when you laugh or sneeze or a more serious form of pelvic muscle weakness, Dr. Wade may be able to help.
From Emface to Emsella: Increase Strength from Your Core to the Floor
Dubbed the “magic chair,” the Emsella device “very gently and easily, for about a 24-minute session—you can do it once a week, or you can do it every other day—helps to really work on the core of [your] pelvic area to make that hammock (pelvic muscle) a lot tighter, which supports the bladder and really helps with incontinence,” Dr. Wade explains. Patients who had recently had surgery for a bladder lift have expressed to Dr. Wade that if they had known this technology existed and was available to them, they would not have had surgery at all.
You may wonder why someone would choose surgery versus a simpler recommendation, like Kegel exercises. Well, just like any other workout or task, it’s easy to forget, put off, or notably measure its success if you can’t physically see the results. Dr. Wade laughs, saying, “I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I’d probably [do Kegels] even if I was really trying to strengthen things. I [wouldn’t] do more than forty or sixty at any one time. I’d get bored and [start] thinking about something else” Then she shares an astounding comparison: “Twenty minutes on the Emsella [chair],” she begins, “Is equal to 10,000 Kegels. Ten thousand!” At this, Laura Lewis-Edwards audibly gasps.
The Emsella chair moves the electromagnetic stimulation up, from your base core through the belly button. Additionally, the Emsculpt Neo is likened to doing thousands of crunches. It uses the same technology but has a different applicator that can be placed in multiple places on the body, emitting electromagnetic stimulation. This can help tighten your core, can be done as a relatively short in-office procedure, and again, requires little to no downtime. This can also help improve your posture and strength, lessen the risk of falls due to muscle weakness, and improve mobility.
If you’re looking for more of a mental “workout” or improvement, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has also gotten an upgrade via the EXOMIND™. “This device stimulates the prefrontal lobe on the left side of the brain, which is where most executive function, mood, mood enhancement, sleep, and processing happen,” attests Dr. Wade. “[It’s] super easy to get to, super easy to treat. And people literally can feel the difference. No medicines, none of the crazy side effects of all those medicines. People, who literally have one treatment and want to give us a video testimonial the moment that they get finished, they can feel the difference. It’s absolutely ‘mind-blowing.’” It’s like a workout for the brain.
So, if you’d like a noninvasive “extreme makeover” from the inside out, visit Stonebriar Smile Design and see for yourself what they have on offer. From the mind to the mouth, and floor to the core, Dr. Jill Wade wants to treat your whole person.
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