Dr Anjana Bhana : What's been happening in 2015

Dr Anjana Bhana is a wife, mom and extremely hard-working and ambitious individual. Her passions are people, beauty and health.

She graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2005, taking the SADA Medal for leadership (for her role as Dental Student Council President as well as other leadership roles) as well as The Maxillo Facial Department’s Research award for her study on Rhinocerebral Mucomycosis in a Ketoacidotic Diabetic. Socially and academically she excelled at University.

She also has a love for aesthetics that lead her to start learning and developing her skills in Aesthetic and Anti-aging Medicine. She constantly updates her knowledge with various courses, workshops and conferences as well as doing an Advanced Diploma in Aesthetic Medicine . Currently she is also an independent trainer for the Restylane (Galderma) range of Tissue Fillers as well as a trainer Perfectha (Genop). She has also recently completed a train the trainer masterclass with Dr Fredrik Berne, a world-renowned Swedish Plastic Surgeon and  Dr Sabine Zenker (9 May).

She always goes the extra mile for her patients and offers them a boutique, customized service.

Dr Anjana Bhana has completed the only South African registered post graduate course in Aesthetic Medicine -the Advanced Diploma in Aesthetic Medicine with Distinction/Cum Laude (84%) . Aesthetic Medicine is her passion and she takes every opportunity to study and grow her skills. She has also completed a course on Maxillofacial orthopaedics and orthodontics and has developed an interest in interceptive orthodontics.

She is also on the SAACD – South African Association of Cosmetic Doctor’s EXCO and recently delivered a lecture to members at a scientific meeting – Lifting , contouring and volumizing – which fillers where? She has given a lecture at the AMCSA 2015 ( the Art of a Beautiful Smile) as well as asked to speak at the upcoming Cosmedica 2015 ( Botox Complications and peri-oral anatomy as well as a demo on lip fillers).

Great News For July and August 2015

Hi Everyone !

Great news and offerings coming your way! A lot has happened recently. I have been asked to join the EXCO of the South African Association of Cosmetic Doctors. I recently had my first lecture ( Which Fillers where ? : Contouring, liftng and volumizing) at their first scientific meeting of the year. I also had the honour of speaking at this year's AMCSA (Aesthetic Medicine Conference of South Africa) on the Art of a Beautiful Smile. I have also been asked to speak at this year's Cosmedica Conference on the complications of Botox as well as demonstrating lip and peri-oral fillers. Quite busy and exciting.

I have been trying to keep abreast of new developments in the filler market and have recently been on numerous trainings. Besides my Restylane offering I also now offer Belotero, Perfectha and Volift that compliment the restyalne range of HA fillers. Recently I attended a train the trainer workshop with German Dermatologist Dr Sabine Zenker and am also now a trainer for the Perfectha range of fillers (in addition to being an independent trainer for Restylane). To celebrate all this I have some great specials on offer!

Get Ready for Summer !
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FILLER SPECIALS

•  10 % off on any vial of filler including Restylane  Sub-Q
•  Cheek Sculpting with Perlane - R5400 (usually  R6000)
•  Luscious Lip plump and Sculpt - R2200 (usually  R2700)
• 10% off Restylane Skinboosters! 

MIRACU PDO THREAD LIFTS AND EMBEDDING THREADS

•     8 thread eyebrow lift - R1200 ( normal cost R2400)
•    8 thread jowl and fold lift - R4000 ( normal cost             R6800)
•    8 Thread 4D thread lift for jowls/jawline - R5800             (normal cost R7200)
•    Neck treatment - R6000 (10 threads)
•    Tummy Full Pack 3D/4D threads R7000
•    6 thread undereye treatment ( R950)
•    10% on all single threads
•    Customized  packages also created

    OBAGI

    Full Obagi range available ! 

     With every purchase of the Obagi Nuderm System 

     Two Free Peels ! ( A huge R1000 saving)

     The cost of the Nuderm System is an 18 Week Skin           care system to optimize your skin.

     R3800  For a cleanser , toner , sunscreen ,          moisturiser and one day skin lightening cream , daily  exfoliater as well as one night lightening cream !

Dermaceutic

5 % off all products

All Specials valid until 18 August ! Don't Miss Out!

Gelish Nails : What took me so long?

I recently tried Gelish at the Sorbet in Glenvista on my feet and hands. I was a bit reluctant as I didn't like that I couldn't remove it and also a bit nervous about damage to my natural nail . Simphiwe, my go-to-gal at Sorbet, was quite honest and answered all my questions regarding the treatment. I decided to just go ahead and do it .Best decision ever (*said in my best suburban drawl) .I use my hands quite a bit and I am constantly washing them so when I do get a mani ( I prefer Essie) the nail polish chips in no time. Two weeks and these Gelish nails are still going strong. 

Simphiwe (my Sorbet Angel) does an exceptional job and is very neat and thorough. I couldn't decide what to do with the colours and the "smartie" effect was suggested (secretly I was wondering if I could do it). 

This went well with my daughter's first birthday party theme and it just makes me feel very festive.

When I was younger - at school and on campus - I used to go crazy with colours and styles. Within reason . . . and sometimes with out reason. In my second year I used to wear these purple snakeskin pants - who does that? Well I wore them and never felt self conscious. Don't get me wrong I was stylish ( no need to pack me off to TLC's "How do I look?" ). Just lately I think I have become quite boring with clothes and with colours. So with these nails I though "What the hell hey?".  

Even my husband remarked that I have become too uptight and high strung. 

Here's to reclaiming a bit of my old self.

Confessions of a Mumzilla :Things mums don't want to think about.

You know sometimes I feel like I live in two different worlds and when I think about it or when it seems to all become too much I get so down. I have been feeling down lately - could be lack of sleep, a despicable diet, guilt over leaving my baby to go to work, #firstworldproblems or just having one of my where-is-my-life-going dips. It can also perhaps be attributed to the fact that I have read three Khaled Hosseini books back-to-back. That I work and work and work and don’t have time for much else. That life has settled into a terrible tedious routine and dressing up and going out has become a schlep. It happens every now and then. This affliction of having the time and privilege to feel dissatisfied with a good life.

I live in plush suburbia with all the trimmings and I have a beautiful private practice around the corner where I do exclusively aesthetic medicine (Botox, fillers, chemical peels and the like). I also work (slog) at a state practice as a dentist daily in Phola Park, Thokoza . Every day I drive from nature estates and private gyms and houses that loom like behemoths into the township - for the past 7 years - can you believe it. Also with its dust , rocks , shacks, bond houses and unaccompanied children running about the streets.

Last Tuesday as I was driving in I saw a boy -perhaps 2 and half years old holding the hand of ,I assume, his little sister . She was perhaps 18 months old . They were so small. Crossing the road by themselves, stopping before stepping off the curb. Before I drove past the little boy held her hand so tightly and tugged her back protectively. I looked into my rear view mirror to watch them walk - they were alone! Where were these kids going alone? And I just drove past to work.

Last week I read the story of a 4 year old girl right here in Thokoza found hanged and possibly raped . These stories scare me because I am a parent of a little girl. They seem remote when I read them on IOL – horrific but still distant. It is so far removed from our reality that while we are upset by it all we don’t know what to do about it. So nothing is done.