The Discipline of Restraint
The best of the work is what you never notice
Aesthetic Medicine · San Diego
Facial Philosophy
Ars Latet Arte — Art Concealed by Art
Domus Vitae is a private aesthetic medicine practice in San Diego. The name is Latin: the house of life.
We hold to the older sense of restraint, not less for its own sake, but only what a face actually asks for. A face is read the way one reads a room: for proportion, for light, for what is already right and best left alone. What we change, we change by degrees, so that afterward nothing looks done. You look rested. You look like yourself.
Full Facial Approach
Faces are read as a whole — the methods below are planned across the face, and in sequence.
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Structure, restored where time has softened it.
A filler restores volume in the moment; a biostimulator prompts your own collagen to rebuild it gradually.
(Radiesse®, Restylane®, Sculptra®, Versa®) -
Softened, never stilled.
Precise doses relax the muscles that etch expression lines, measured to your face rather than to a formula.
(Botox®, Dysport®, Letybo®)
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The old surface, let go.
A controlled peel lifts away the outer layer to let fresher, more even skin surface — its strength matched to you.
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The skin, encouraged to renew itself.
Fine channels prompt the skin's own repair, refining texture, tone, and fine lines over a series of sessions.
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The body's own materials, put back to work.
Two ways to prompt repair: growth factors drawn from your own blood, or a single growth factor, PDGF, made in a lab and applied at the surface.
The Domus Method
Protocols developed at Domus Vitae, each given as a course rather than a single sitting.
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The ease of a good filter, made real.
Microneedling with our MicroToxin™ — a neuromodulator worked into the surface of the skin rather than into the muscle.
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Renewal, built from beneath.
Microneedling paired with MicroFactor™, our growth-factor protocol, to rebuild the skin over a course of treatments.
The Days After
A treatment does not end when you leave. Before you go, you will know what is ordinary in the days that follow — the swelling, the color, the small things — and what is not. Until all of it has settled, we remain within reach
A private suite in San Diego. Seen by appointment. An introduction begins with a conversation.
The House — Location
The Clinicians
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![Gabriel Gonzalez, BSN, RN, in black scrubs, standing in a hallway.]()
Gabriel Gonzalez
Founder, Injector, BSN, RN.
Every treatment is performed by Gabriel Gonzalez — founder and registered nurse.
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![Vinson Michael DiSanto, MD, in a white coat, standing before an arched doorway.]()
Vinson Michael DiSanto
Medical Director, MD.
Dr. Vinson Michael DiSanto serves as Medical Director, providing clinical oversight and ensuring every protocol meets a physician standard of safety and care.
