Facial Rejuvenation
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In-person, virtual and phone consultations are available
Facial Aesthetic Analysis
Bonus: If you decide to move forward with a recommended treatment, the assessment cost will be applied towards your service.
Dermal Fillers
Restore volume and contour to areas affected by aging, creating natural-looking results that enhance your facial structure and reduce signs of aging.
Neuromodulators
Smooth fine lines and prevent wrinkles with FDA-approved injectable treatments that relax targeted facial muscles for a refreshed, youthful appearance.
Botox is probably the most common and well-known neuromodulator out there. Botox helps to temporarily smoothen undesired facial wrinkles and folds to improve the overall appearance. Botox works by temporarily weakening or paralyzing muscles or nerves. Thanks to this effect, muscles of the face that would otherwise continue to fold up and wrinkle with facial expressions, become smooth and unaffected, yielding a more youthful look.
Platelet-Rich Fibrin
Harness your body’s natural healing power with our advanced Platelet Rich Fibrin (PRF) facial treatment. This all-natural procedure uses your own blood platelets to stimulate collagen production and accelerate tissue regeneration for a more youthful, radiant complexion.
Applied through micro-needling or injection, PRF promotes cellular renewal and improves skin texture while reducing fine lines, wrinkles, and acne scarring. Since PRF comes from your own body, it’s completely biocompatible with minimal risk of adverse reactions.
The treatment encourages your skin’s natural repair processes for long-lasting results that continue improving over weeks and months, delivering firmer, smoother, and more luminous skin through natural regeneration.
Coming soon!!! Warm and Cold Plasma
The Evolution of Plasma Fibroblast is Warm Plasma skin treatments that uses ionized gas for accelerated skin regeneration. Excellent for Skin Rejuvenation, ie: Collagen Production, Fine Lines, and Skin Tightening, Pigmentation, Acne Scarring, Hair Restoration, Stretch Marks.
Cold Plasma is a cutting-edge, non-invasive skin treatment that uses ionized gas to deeply cleanse, calm, and rejuvenate the skin—without heat or damage. It kills acne-causing bacteria, reduces inflammation, and boosts cell regeneration, making it ideal for treating acne, redness, fine lines, and uneven skin tone. Gentle yet powerful, Cold Plasma strengthens the skin barrier, accelerates healing, and enhances the results of other treatments—all with zero downtime.
Red Light Therapy with Near Infrared
Red light therapy with near infrared (NIR) is a non-invasive treatment that penetrates deep into skin cells to stimulate natural healing and renewal from within.
Therapeutic light wavelengths help boost cellular energy production, increase collagen synthesis, and improve blood circulation, resulting in reduced inflammation, diminished fine lines, and enhanced skin tone and texture. Patients enjoy a more radiant, youthful complexion with improved elasticity and firmness.
This comfortable, painless treatment requires no downtime while delivering cumulative benefits with each session. Red light therapy naturally accelerates your skin’s repair processes, helping to minimize acne, reduce redness, and promote an overall healthy glow.
At Santa Cruz CORE, we use RedVive devices which emit the highest amount of irradiance, and multi-wave spectral output to provide deeper penetration and faster results. You can read more about their devices here!
Dermal Fillers
Restore volume and contour to areas affected by aging, creating natural-looking results that enhance your facial structure and reduce signs of aging.
Neuromodulators
Smooth fine lines and prevent wrinkles with FDA-approved injectable treatments that relax targeted facial muscles for a refreshed, youthful appearance.
Botox is probably the most common and well-known neuromodulator out there. Botox helps to temporarily smoothen undesired facial wrinkles and folds to improve the overall appearance. Botox works by temporarily weakening or paralyzing muscles or nerves. Thanks to this effect, muscles of the face that would otherwise continue to fold up and wrinkle with facial expressions, become smooth and unaffected, yielding a more youthful look.
Platelet-Rich Fibrin
Harness your body’s natural healing power with our advanced Platelet Rich Fibrin (PRF) facial treatment. This all-natural procedure uses your own blood platelets to stimulate collagen production and accelerate tissue regeneration for a more youthful, radiant complexion.
Applied through micro-needling or injection, PRF promotes cellular renewal and improves skin texture while reducing fine lines, wrinkles, and acne scarring. Since PRF comes from your own body, it’s completely biocompatible with minimal risk of adverse reactions.
The treatment encourages your skin’s natural repair processes for long-lasting results that continue improving over weeks and months, delivering firmer, smoother, and more luminous skin through natural regeneration.
Red Light Therapy with Near Infrared
Platelet-rich Plasma (Vampire Facial):
Red light therapy with near infrared (NIR) is a non-invasive treatment that penetrates deep into skin cells to stimulate natural healing and renewal from within.
Therapeutic light wavelengths help boost cellular energy production, increase collagen synthesis, and improve blood circulation, resulting in reduced inflammation, diminished fine lines, and enhanced skin tone and texture. Patients enjoy a more radiant, youthful complexion with improved elasticity and firmness.
This comfortable, painless treatment requires no downtime while delivering cumulative benefits with each session. Red light therapy naturally accelerates your skin’s repair processes, helping to minimize acne, reduce redness, and promote an overall healthy glow.
At Santa Cruz CORE, we use RedVive devices which emit the highest amount of irradiance, and multi-wave spectral output to provide deeper penetration and faster results. You can read more about their devices here!
Harness your body’s natural healing power with platelet-rich plasma treatments that stimulate collagen production and improve skin texture, tone, and elasticity.
Vampire facials (PRP facials) are popular due to great results and perhaps a peculiar nickname. This facial uses the patient’s own blood to centrifuge high levels of platelets, which are then injected back into the skin.
By injecting a high concentration of the patient’s own platelets back into the skin, a physician is able to stimulate regeneration and a more youthful appearance.
Dr. Grady D.O. offers safe and effective Facial Rejuvination Injections, which are a non-surgical cosmetic treatment to reduce wrinkles, increase facial health and appearance, and reduce signs of aging. Our prolotherapy treatments are safe, effective, and available at Santa Cruz CORE facilities in Santa Cruz and Watsonville.
Do you live in the Santa Cruz area?
Call 831-425-9500 email info@santacruzcore.com mention this page to redeem!
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Peggy Humphries, Licensed Esthetician, Registered Nurse
Peggy became a medical aesthetics nurse at the request of her skincare clients as they wanted her to provide further advanced beauty treatments as they aged. Peggy has been an esthetician since 2004 and began her pursuit of her Associates in Science Degree at Cabrillo College graduating in 2016 with Honors in Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Interdisciplinary Studies and was awarded the Beth Blanchette Scholarship in Sciences. Peggy began nursing school in an accelerated program in Minnesota September 2017, graduating December 2018 and receiving her Registered Nurse License in California February 2019.
Peggy began the study of medical aesthetics while in school and before, but as the go getter as she is, she started practicing medical aesthetics April 2019 with a local physician, taking courses and shadowing other physicians. In March 2020, she secured an excellent opportunity to work with and be trained by a highly respected physician and educator in the medical aesthetics field who has practiced for over 20 years. One day per week Peggy attended his practice as an apprentice gaining knowledge and honing her skills while practicing in her Santa Cruz location. Now 6 years into her career, she is recognized for her skilled, precise and not over-done approach restoring “your” natural beauty.
Peggy continues to study and attend trainings, conferences, and mentorships to grow her skills and learn and implement new treatment offerings.
Education
Cabrillo College – Santa Cruz
Associates Degree – Medical Sciences Focused
Graduated with Honors
Beth Blanchet Medical Science Scholarship
Rasmussen College – Minnesota – Accelerated Program
Associates Degree in Registered Nursing
Dr. John Grady graduated from the Midwestern University, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2008. He now works in Santa Cruz County, California specializing in Emergency Medicine, Osteopathy, and Rejuventation Therapies, including PRP facial treatments.
Dr. Grady is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Osteopathic physician at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, CA. Dr. Grady has received advanced Prolotherapy training from the Hackett Hemwell Patterson Foundation (HHP), and performs Prolotherapy, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), and Stem Cell injections for therapeutic and cosmetic procedures.
He volunteers in Honduras performing rejuvenation injection therapy on locals in clinics, which HHP has been staffing since 1969. At HHP, he also administers Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy and sports medicine treatment to patients. Dr. Grady is also an adjunct Professoor at Touro Univeristy’s medical school.
In addition, Dr. Grady has worked at Dominican Hospital’s ER since 2011 treating thousands of Santa Cruz natives suffering from trauma, sports injuries, infections, acute complications of chronic conditions, and much more. He co-created Heart Farm in Soquel with his partner, Samantha Matthews.
GET PRP + MICRO-NEEDLING
Santa Cruz CORE does business management for the professional medical corporation. The professionals utilize nontoxic and innovative approaches to resolving cosmetic issues brought on by aging, sun exposure, scarring, acne, and more. Increase collagen, decrease discoloration with the “PRP + Micro-needling” or try healthier alternate injectables to remove fine lines and wrinkles. This process is more advanced than the ‘vampire facials’ and can treat the face or the scalp!
We are trained and certified in Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) and facial rejuvenation including Botox and Dermal Fillers for your skin
Questions about Medical Aesthetics:
As one ages, the skin loses elasticity and the ability to produce collagen. The injections received during PRP and a vampire facelift come from your own body and help to stimulate that collagen. The cytokines and growth factors are what work to improve skin health, and other than a topical pain cream, drugs and non-natural chemicals are not used. These injections are not foreign substances and are made using your body’s own blood components, and are considered safe.
Those that are experiencing signs of aging in their skin such as fine lines and wrinkles, age spots, or pigmentation disorders (such as hypopigmentation or hyperpigmentation), would benefit from facial rejuvenation. As cells age, the speed of their production decreases, including the production of collagen. This will cause signs of natural aging, which when combined with sun damage and improper care, can contribute to poor skin health. By using PRP injections to re-stimulate the body’s collagen and healing processes again, the skin becomes more healthy and elastic.
First, the physician will extract your blood; the blood is processed in a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets and growth factors, in the end producing PRP (platelet-rich plasma). The doctor will then use a “microneedle” to create channels within the skin to stimulate the wound into a healing response. Using the microneedle, the patient’s own PRP is stamped into the skin and distributed throughout these channels–this is a fairly quick and painless process. By “tricking” the skin into thinking it has been wounded, new cells and collagen are produced to create healthier, smoother skin!
Most recovery times last only 1-2 days after receiving treatment. You may experience redness of the skin on your face and/or neck, similar to a sunburn, following treatment. However, this fades away and you will see results over the course of a few weeks.
After 1-2 days of downtime, during which time you may experience redness, bruising, swelling, and pinpoint bleeding, your skin will start to look normal again and begin processing the treatment. You may see results within a few weeks, yet changes will continue to develop for several months after the procedure.
Facial rejuvenation services are not covered by insurance because, as an area of prolotherapy, it is still considered investigational and needs further scientific evidence to support its effectiveness. For pricing, please call our front desk at 831.425.9500.
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