Videos

Dr. John Burroughs and LPN Melissa Payton, from Springs Aesthetics in Colorado Springs, explain some of the various lip filler products and surgical and non-surgical options for enhancing your lips.

Springs Aesthetics in Colorado Springs, Colorado, offers IPL photofacial. IPL from InMode uses an intense pulsed light energy source to break down damaged skin cells and stimulate cell turnover. Dr. Burroughs recommends the IPL photofacial for areas of hyperpigmentation or redness, such as what is seen with age spots, rosacea, and sun-damaged skin.

Springs Aesthetics, in Colorado SPrings, Colorado, offers Forma and Forma Plus. InMode Forma (for smaller areas) and Forma Plus (for larger areas) is a modality that helps tighten skin on the face, neck, and body. Forma and Forma Plus is a radio frequency (RF) technology that gives off a warm, deep heat to stimulate new collagen production and provide optimal skin contraction in the deep layers of your skin.

Dr. Burroughs is a cosmetic eyelid and facial plastic surgeon. He has been performing eyelid surgery for over 20 years, and teaches at international symposia. The lower eyelid skin pinch blepharoplasty helps address loose and/or wrinkled lower eyelid skin to smooth and improve the appearance. It can sometimes also help improve the dark circles/tear troughs under the eyes. A canthopexy is often necessary to support the eyelid and avoid the eyelid being pulled downward/outward that aesthetically looks bad and can make the eyes uncomfortable. The canthopexy procedure can also help provide a new shape for the eyes like an "almond" shape. This lower eyelid skin blepharoplasty surgery can be done with or without fat removal, sculpting, or repositioning (translocating). This video is non-graphic, but provides a summary discussion and a before and after result. For many other before and after results please go to www.drjohnburroughs.com or www.springsaesthetics.com

Dr. John Burroughs, cosmetic Oculofacial plastic surgeon, shows the safe and surgical way to handle unwanted spiders.

Dr. Burroughs is a cosmetic oculofacial plastic surgeon practicing in Colorado Springs, CO. He enjoys helping patients reach their aesthetic goals with surgery as well as non- and minimally invasive approaches. Feeling better about one's appearance helps build confidence, and some have described beauty as confidence. Patient concerns with their noses include: prominent dorsal hump; overly broad appearance; downturning of the tip; asymmetry; collapsed or sweeping dorsal ridge; and others. Filler can last 9-12 months in the nose in many cases. Only a hyaluronic acid filler that is reversible should be used. The nose is a high risk area to inject because of blood vessels and if an obstruction occurs it could cause skin necrosis and scarring or worse. Also injecting into a blood vessel can cause blindness very rarely. 22G cannulas are much safer than needles as the blunt tip is difficult to get into a blood vessel. Smaller cannulas (25G, 27G) act like needles, which can penetrate into blood vessels and carry more risk. Dr. Burroughs has been using cannulas and advocates their use at meetings for better safety, patient comfort, and less bruising. Always be sure your injector has reversing enzyme (hyaluronidase) and that no permanent or non-reversible filler is used in the nose. Injecting office should always have 5-6 bottles of enzyme on hand, and be reachable by phone even after hours if painful, irregular bruising occurs which could be a vessel occlusion as mins-hrs matter. Skin should always be prepped with antiseptic not just alcohol to avoid potentially high risk infections. Dr. Burroughs is enthusiastic about the fantastic results that can be obtained with fillers, but safety is paramount. He teaches at both national and international meetings.

Dr. John Burroughs is an oculofacial plastic surgeon with over 20 years of experience operating around the eyes and face. He shares a technique to maintain surgical sterility while minimizing an operative fire risks. Oxygen used for the patient can ignite from a cautery spark. This has causes facial burns that can be serious. Dr. Burroughs has fortunately never had an operative fire as he follows very careful protocols, and even been an expert reviewer for a case and published some of his techniques to avoid this risk. During the Covid pandemic surgeons need to adopt in the care for their patients to avoid surgical fires for medically necessary cases. Normally, Dr. Burroughs keeps the entire face exposed, so there can be no oxygen trapping that could ignite. However, during Covid to protect the patient and the operative team it is essential to minimize close contact breathing without the use of surgical masks that can help minimize spread of potentially infectious viral particles. Therefore, Dr. Burroughs has adopted this technique for patient and operative team safety.

The frown lines between the eyebrows are a high risk area. Dr. Joohn Burroughs, Colorado Springs Oculofacial Plastic Surgeon, will only treat these areas if patients have failed or have had a very underwhelming result with wrinkle blocker injection of a botulinum. Needles should not be used in this area, but a large 22G cannula can be safely used. Smaller cannulas act like needles and should be avoided to minimize the risk of vessel occlusion or even blindness. Only reversible hyaluronic acid filler should be used, so that an enzyme can be injected should a vessel emergency occur.

Dr. Burroughs is a practicing oculofacial plastic surgeon. He is also a master cosmetic filler injector. This video shows a brief portion of a talk he gave at an international facial plastic surgery meeting. Fillers can be safely injected with 22 gauge cannulas into the brow fat pads to enhance, contour, and gently lift them.

Dr. John Burroughs is a master injector, and teaches his techniques at international meetings. Fillers can make amazing and immediate aesthetic improvements to our faces. Cannulas can make these infections safer, but only certain sizes and still being mindful of the vessel danger zones. Infections with fillers are rare, but can be very difficult to treat and leave scarring. A vessel complication referred to Dr. Burroughs will be shown, how it was successfully managed, and how to avoid this serious complication.