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HEALTHY LIVING
Restoring Confidence
Trillium Medical Aesthetics & Gynecology
story by Lynn Lofton
photo by Katherine Sowers
After 31 years of practicing medicine in the Gulf Coast area, Mike McKay, M.D., decided to try something different while still helping patients. Thus, eight years ago Trillium was born, an aesthetics practice with numerous services.
One focus is on hair rejuvenation. “No one in the area is doing it and it’s really growing now that the word is out,” he says. “I treat men and women who have thinning hair or balding using platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections all over the scalp. We’re having great results.”
Trillium also provides treatments for vaginal rejuvenation, hair removal, skin tightening, and small spider leg veins. They administer botox, fillers, liposuction and a weight
loss program. A popular service is body contouring with minimally invasive SmartLipo.
“Everyone’s beauty is different. I’m restoring confidence with what I do. In this practice I like the creativity that’s required. Everyone’s treatment is individualized,” he says.
Dr. McKay wants everyone to know they can have a complimentary consultation to find out what they need.
“I get great satisfaction knowing I’ve helped people and restored their confidence,” he says. “The feeling I get when I help someone overcome a problem, and in doing so make them feel better about how they look, is what inspires me. I try to make my patients laugh, breaking the tension in the room, and this makes them feel special. I treat everyone in a manner that I want to be treated.”
2045 E. Pass Road, Gulfport | 228.760.2995 doctormckay@mspwh.com | www.michaelmckaymd.com
Mike McKay, M.D.
The goals of this treatment are threefold: to increase the rate of growth and double the size of the hair shaft; to recruit two or three dormant hair follicles; and to stimulate two or three dormant hairs that are not growing and convert them into growing hairs.
“By accomplishing these three things, clients will experience renewed hair growth,” Dr. McKay says. He points out that the “scalp is at the top of the pole where it’s hard to get blood flow.”
However, there is one caveat. “If an area on the scalp is completely void of hair for more than two years, it’s gone,” he said. “It’s very important to address hair loss early.”
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