4 Innovations for Facial Lifting Without Surgery
As time passes, our skin inevitably develops wrinkles and fades, and we cannot stop the clock from ticking. The history of erasing wrinkles goes back hundreds of years — women of every era and generation have cared for the beauty of their faces with methods such as using herbs like tamarind pulp and gotu kola in Thailand, or grape stomping in Bulgaria. Today, medicine and technology have come to play a role in beauty, including facial lifting and tightening, and have evolved into the 4 most popular innovations that people love today. Let's get to know these innovations together.
rnrnThe 4 innovations for lifting and tightening facial skin without surgery all share the same principle: sending ultrasound waves or high-frequency radio waves into the skin layers to stimulate cells to contract and produce new collagen.
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- Ulthera rn
- Thermage rn
- Exlis Elite rn
- HiFu rn
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rnrnUlthera sends ultrasound waves to the skin's SMAS layer to break down tissue and stimulate it to realign and build new collagen. That collagen fills in facial wrinkles and helps lift and tighten the skin without surgery or downtime — right after the treatment, you can go about your activities immediately.
rnrnUlthera technology is safe and has been certified by the food and drug administrations of the United States, Europe and Thailand as genuinely able to lift, tighten and smooth the skin on the face, neck and upper chest.
rnrnSuitable for : those with a lot of facial fat
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- Treatment time: 30-10 minutes rn
- Treatable areas: brows, eyes and the surrounding area, facial wrinkles, neck, chest, facial contouring, double chin reduction rn
- Pain : a tingling sensation around the bone, mildly painful rn
- Results: changes are visible immediately after treatment, becoming gradually clearer within 3 months, and lasting 1-2 years rn
- Treatment frequency: 1 time / 1-2 years rn
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rnrnThermage sends high-frequency radio waves (monopolar RF) into the deep skin layers to make collagen and elastin fibers regenerate continuously and to eliminate cellulite, leaving the skin firmer and wrinkles faded. It is a non-surgical facial tightening technology certified as safe by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and can be used to tighten both the face and the body, such as the eyes, corners of the mouth, cheeks, stretch marks, thighs and hips.
rnrnSuitable for : those with a lot of facial fat
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- Treatment time : 1-2 hours rn
- Treatable areas: brow lifting, outer eye corners, around the eyes, reducing wrinkles on the face and neck, facial contouring, and rn
- double chin rn
- Pain: a warm to hot sensation in some spots, with a vibration system to help reduce discomfort rn
- Results: visible immediately; afterwards the skin continues to build new collagen, meaning skin condition keeps improving for up to 6 months, with results lasting 1-2 years depending on skin condition rn
- Treatment frequency: 1 time / 1-2 years rn
rnrnrnEXILIS ELITE TM
rnrnExilis Elite TM is a fat-dissolving and skin-tightening innovation that delivers high-frequency radio waves down into the dermis, similar to Thermage. It has been certified by the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) as able to reduce wrinkles and tighten contours in a single machine, and was the best-seller in the United States in 2011-2012. Its advantage is that it can tighten the skin and dissolve fat at the same time.
rnrnSuitable for : those with a lot of facial fat
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- Treatment time: 1-2 hours rn
- Treatable areas: eyelid lifting, under-eye bags, reducing wrinkles on the face, neck, body and double chin rn
- Pain: warm, slightly hot rn
- Results: a subtle visible difference, lasting 3-4 months rn
- Treatment frequency: 3-5 times / year rn
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rnrnHIFU stands for High Intensity Focus Ultrasound, a technology from France that has received the CE Medical Clear certification from Europe. It fires ultrasound waves into the individual layers beneath the skin (depending on the brand) to make cells contract and produce collagen. It is very safe, does not harm the outer layer of skin, and can firm double-chin fat and reduce wrinkles on the neck, around the eyes and across the whole face.
rnrnSuitable for : those with sagging facial skin and moderate wrinkles
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- Treatment time: 30 minutes - 1 hour rn
- Treatable areas : brows, eyes and the surrounding area, facial wrinkles, neck, chest, facial contouring, double chin reduction rn
- Pain : depends on each brand rn
- Results : 10-20% visible immediately, with full results within 1-2 months, lasting 6 months - 1 year rn
- Treatment frequency: 3-5 times / year rn
And these are the differences between the 4 types of non-surgical facial lifting innovations. We hope this information helps everyone decide on lifting and tightening treatments — and on looking fresh and youthful once again.
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