Radiofrequency for skin tightening – 3

Patients must undergo the standard pre-surgery tests and are put under sedation.  Thermage heats up the skin up to 60 degrees. “You don’t put patients to sleep because you need to get their feedback if they can bear the heat or not. Some people find the procedure painful. Each person has a different level of tolerance.

 

“After the procedure, you can put on make-up. Some say Thermage is a non-surgical lift. That is a wrong connotation. You will not get fast results unlike a facelift. You can see immediate tightening. But if you want the real effects, you will see it after six months when there has been collagen remodeling. Thermage is great because even if you feel deep heat, it has its own cooling system. Some people find the procedure painful.”

Buse observes that the most noticeable result is that the skin appears “full”. “Previously, the skin was thin. Months after the treatment the skin is thicker.” When the cheeks get a lift, her patients feel conscious about their cherubic look. “Actually they were used to seeing sagging cheeks,” she says.

There are different tips for body, the eyes, the skin tightening and contouring for the face with various heating profiles.

Buse observes that the arms, thighs and abdomen become taut. Even the breasts and the butt get a lift. “There is visible improvement for as long as the skin is not redundant,” she notes.

Ref: dailyinquirer

Radiofrequency for skin tightening – 1

If you look at recent photos of some actors here in the Philippines they look younger.   While most women in their late 50s are either dealing with jowls or losing their figures.  What’s behind their still-youthful appearance? Non-invasive radiofrequency procedures for skin tightening and redraping.

This procedure is recommended for:

* Extremely busy people between 35 and 60 years old who are bothered by sagging jawline, deep laugh lines and marionette lines and puffy faces despite weight loss, moderate double chin, jowls, little rolls of fat around the girth, or mini flaps under the arms, but don’t have the time for post-surgery downtime;

* Those who fear surgery;

* Those feeling skin laxity but aren’t ready yet for the scalpel.

* Post-surgery enhancement such as improving loose skin tone after liposuction or child birth, or enhancing the facelift.

Radiofrequency (RF) or highly regulated heat source is one of the most popular “lunchtime procedures” (so called because a lunch is all it takes to have the procedure done) today.

Going skin deep

The skin has two layers—the outer layer (epidermis) and the underlying layer (dermis). The main foundation of the dermis is a protein called collagen, which holds up the skin. Over time, the body produces less collagen, resulting in wrinkling and skin slackening.

“Collagen turnover is not fast when we were younger. It takes 28 days. It becomes 45 days when we get older. We want to stimulate and wake up the cells again. This is where radiofrequency comes in. It blasts your cells to produce more collagen,” explains Eloisa Buse, managing physician of Belo Medical Group.

ref: dailyinquirer