SARASOTA, Fla. -- As baby boomers get older, many are looking for ways to get the look of a face-lift without surgery. In the past decade, the number of people undergoing cosmetic plastic surgery has more than tripled. However, there may be another way to make your face look younger.

Look closely at the woman's face on the left. On the right is the same woman today. She didn't go under the knife to change her appearance. Neither did the women whose skin looks smoother, nor the women whose laugh lines have disappeared.

Instead, they turned to acupuncture physician Anna Baker, a doctor of oriental medicine in Sarasota, Fla.

"There are actually 57 muscles in the face and they are all connected to each other. So when one goes down they all start to go down, together," Baker said.

She said acupuncture can re-tighten the face muscles.

Emily Leinfuss, 43, originally tried acupuncture to relieve premenopausal symptoms. Then she wondered if an acupuncture face-lift might help her look.

"I had seen some of the pictures of women who had gotten face-lifts. I thought, wow! You know, if you look good, you feel better. So I tried it," she said.

Each of Baker's session lasts 25 minutes and costs $70. Patients usually have about 25 sessions.

As Baker places five needles into Leinfuss' head, there is no pain, according to Baker.

"They do not hurt," she said. "The needles are the size of a human hair."

On the right is how Leinfuss looked before acupuncture. See the difference after 20 treatments?

"Certainly everything has lifted, like a smile rather than a frown is more natural," she said. "Maybe it creates an illusion for me that I'm just naturally growing younger."

Baker said the acupuncture face-lift lasts as long as a surgical face-lift. However, unlike surgery, this treatment can be renewed with a couple of treatments every 12 to 18 months to reverse additional aging.

If you would like more information, please contact:

Anna Baker
Acupuncture Physician
Doctor of Oriental Medicine
7122 Mandarin Road
Sarasota, FL 34238
(941) 924-2723
annabaker@advcom1.com

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