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With Board certification in the practice of family medicine, Dr. Albert S. Miller, M.D., began caring for local families as soon as his residency was completed in 1988. By the mid 1990's, Dr. Miller's interest in alternative medicine prompted him to begin incorporating bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (age management medicine) into his practice. Throughout the next several years, he began to handle aesthetics practices such as skin peels, laser hair removal, tissue fillers, and Botox® treatments and in June of 2001, he opened Evergreen Wellness Center to focus entirely on helping his patients look and feel better. When asked the origin of his center's name, Dr. Miller replied, "We conducted an exhaustive search for a name that would capture the essence of our practice. Just as evergreen trees are constantly growing and renewing themselves, Evergreen Wellness Center is dedicated to helping our patients continually grow and renew themselves through modern science." During a recent visit, Dr. Miller graciously enlightened us as he explained the concepts and techniques of looking and feeling your best;
Evergreen Wellness Center specializes in providing modern medical technology and services to enhance your quality of life by helping you look and feel better. Our practice is actually comprised of an aesthetic practice which includes techniques that make your skin thicker, healthier, more elastic, and younger looking and an age management component which focuses on helping you look and feel better regardless of your age.
In age management medicine, we determine how we can best optimize your health based on your genetics, current lifestyle, and current health. The issues we address range from how you eat to whether you smoke or drink, your energy levels, weight, blood pressure, and difficulties faced from heart disease and diabetes. We look at your nutritional habits and we examine your current symptomatology states. We take a comprehensive blood analysis which includes the typical chemistries, liver and kidney function, and a complete blood count in addition to doing extensive hormone analysis. We know that as we age, starting in our mid to late 20's, our hormones start to decline in a fairly predictable fashion. By manipulating our lifestyles and our diet, we can return our hormones to the levels and bio-identical form we enjoyed when we were younger. In contrast to traditional medicine which typically treats women with high doses of estrogen and ignores men altogether, we use smaller doses of DHEA, progesterone, estrogen, testosterone, and growth hormone to bring them all into balance in both men and women.
Our aesthetic practice concentrates on helping you look better by providing your skin with the care it needs to remain healthy. The five steps to healthier skin are cleaning, exfoliating, protecting, hydrating, and correcting any existing conditions. Correction is performed with the use of different lasers specifically designed to accomplish a variety of corrective actions. We can treat pigmented spots, rosacea, spider and varicose veins and our new Thermage® unit is a radio-frequency device which tightens the skin and makes it more elastic by stimulating the fibroblasts to produce more collagen. We also do skin peels, hair removal, tattoo removal, and birthmark removal including hemangiomas, port-wine stains, venous malformations, arteriovenous malformation (AVM), lymphatic malformations, and various complex vascular syndromes. We have lasers that can help with acne and that can not only remove cysts but also decrease the rate that they reform.
Our aestheticians are qualified to apply permanent make-up and are skilled in all types of facial treatments. In addition, we offer tissue fillers like Collagen, Restylane®, Perlane®, and our newest tissue filler, Radiance®, which doesn't need replacing for five years. We perform Botox® injections to block the neuromuscular function and help keep you from getting wrinkles due to overuse of facial expression. What I find interesting is that with Botox®, you can learn to not use those muscles as much which lessens the need for further treatments.
At Evergreen Wellness Center, these are the things we do every day. Most practitioners in this field will combine this practice with their regular practice and spend only a few days each month addressing these issues but at Evergreen Wellness Center, these matters receive our total focus each day of the month. Rather than trying to handle all types of treatments with one laser, we have a full compliment of lasers ensuring that we have the very best equipment for each procedure. By concentrating our efforts in one field, the economies of scale we enjoy enable us to provide our services at rates that are below most people's expectations and below the costs associated with the same procedures performed elsewhere.
Let the dedicated professionals at Evergreen Wellness Center help you look and feel your best. Call Evergreen Wellness Center today and don't forget to tell them that The Advocate sent you!
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