Imperial Beach, CA Drs and Health Practioners

The wellness introductory package begins with a basic overview of the principles and practices behind Chinese medicine and is followed by a personal-health assessment and one therapeutic acupuncture treatment. Acupuncture targets specific points in the body to help redirect the flow of the body’s energy and provide relief from a wide variety of ailments such as chronic pain, morning sickness, insomnia, tennis elbow, and more. Call ahead to schedule an appointment and prepare to have tension and stress melt away faster than a wicked witch at a pool party.

At Dr. Bauer's Advanced Wellness, Drs. Jason Bauer and Travis Johnson focus on healing spines and promoting overall health without the use of surgery or drugs. During one-hour therapeutic massages, muscles surrender aches to firm hands, which send waves of relaxation over bodies and dissolve stores of tension as quickly as a dragon eats through its antacid supply. Patients then meet with one of the doctors, who consults with them to suss out deficiencies in areas of nutrition, exercise, and function. A thorough examination of the spine and nervous system includes orthopedic tests to evaluate posture and range of motion and digital nerve and thermal scans to illuminate caricatures of the brain circulated by mischievous vertebrae.

Stepping into Tower Dentistry is like stepping into the house of a neighbor—a neighbor who’s really into the Middle Ages. One of the sunny, yellow walls in the reception area gives way to the stone exterior of a castle, where children climb through a kid-size archway to enter their own play space. Overhead, a flat-screen TV entertains parents as they shift focus between the screen and their progeny, sipping coffee or juice on the plush cushions of the sofa. Nearby, a vibrant blue-and-orange flower painting crowns the fireplace, complementing the blue backlighting of the rotunda-like ceiling and the dark-wood cabinets.

If you can bring yourself to leave the cozy comfort of the foyer, you'll find that the rest of the office is just as calming. Satellite TV or music await in treatment rooms, where dentists Adam Raschke, Paul Pierce, Paul Velton, and Frank Duran would love to hear the nicknames you've chosen for each of the fish in their 1,000-gallon aquarium. The caring team maintains its patient-centered philosophy with timesaving, state-of-the-art dental technology. They use a CEREC software system to design and fabricate ceramic restorations in about an hour, and offer mini dental implants that stabilize ill-fitting dentures in a single visit.

Technology-driven oral-investigative equipment and creature comforts litter the patient rooms inside Image Dental Group's office. Intraoral-photography systems snap digital shots of mouths’ interiors and exteriors to give dentists a clear picture of their patient's health. When peeping below the skin's surface, technicians shy away from the x-ray vision services of overpriced superheroes, instead brandishing digital x-ray systems that chart bone structures with intricate detail. Movies playing on the office's I-Glasses video system and iPods relax patients snuggling in the plush arms of a neck pillow.

Dentists Jessamine Sunglao and Nelson Deleon create healthy, glowing smiles with general, restorative, and cosmetic dentistry and thoughtful, personal treatment. The digital x-rays the doctors employ to detect any abnormalities use safer, less harmful rays than their standard counterparts. Painless anesthesia from Milestone can comfort patients who fear the needle. Email- and text-confirmed appointments help busy patients work dental care into their packed schedules. Both doctors tend to general checkups, dental exams, Zoom! teeth whitening, and root-canal therapy. Dr. Deleon also offers orthodontics, and gives patients the option to straighten teeth with ClearCorrect invisible aligners or the old fashioned way of using plaster casts.

Seasoned, board-certified cosmetic surgeon Dr. Charles Sarosy helms the team of certified technicians at San Diego Body Contouring and its sister location, the Vein and Liposculpture Center in Temecula. Drawing from years of experience that earned him a membership to the American Society of Cosmetic Surgery, Dr. Sarosy wields state-of-the-art laser technology to help lift visages, oust excess fat, and erase unwanted tattoos and body hair. He can also forge svelte physiques with comprehensive mommy makeovers, designed to restore new mothers' post-pregnancy bodies to the state they were in before babies filled them with gaudy futons. Spider-vein therapy and skincare treatments such as microdermabrasion and Botox round out the center's slate of aesthetic services.