Ultrasound Face Lifting ↔️ Two Truths and A Lie 💛

Hello pretty 🍋 Zesties!

My job is to make people the most beautiful version of themselves and that entails using some fancy tech like focused-ultrasound treatment (for example, Ultherapy™) in the clinic to tighten skin and lift faces! 💛

Let’s play Two Truths and A Lie to learn more about this lifting treatment! 😼

👉🏻 Here are two truths and a lie about Ultherapy™ treatment:

1️⃣ It takes over an hour to do 🤔

2️⃣ It can’t replace Botox™ for wrinkle treatment 🤔

3️⃣ It uses a cold spray to cool and numb the surface skin 🤔

Lock in your answers now!

Answer reveal at the end, oh wait, never mind, let’s just talk it through here! 🔜

💛 Ultherapy™ is, in my opinion the king of HIFUs (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment.) I say so because of its precision and real-time visualisation, ensuring the treatment energy goes to the right places! ⚡️

This type of treatment helps to tighten the skin and lift the face by sending concentrated ultrasound waves into the collagen layers 🆙 Collagen layers such as the SMAS in our skin tend to become loose and saggy with age 😭 The natural approach to restoring tightness and firmness is to create micro-contractures in them, and this is done using ultrasound waves non-invasively, so no needles here 🤩 Bonus round: after energy is delivered to the skin, our cells get hard to work to make more collagen to boost the elasticity and further improve skin quality and lift 🔝

🎓 So for the answers:

1️⃣ When done conscientiously with attention to detail, and effort put in to hit the right layers, the face procedure alone can take around an hour or more! ⏱️ So this is a TRUTH! 🙌🏻 Please plan enough time for the procedure so you don’t end up rushing your doctor and getting half the result you deserve! 😘

2️⃣ Ultherapy addresses underlying skin laxity and might help with static lines and wrinkles (meaning the lines are visible at a neutral expression.) ✅ On the other hand, Botox works best for dynamic wrinkles (meaning the lines come on WITH facial expression - such as forehead lines, frown lines, Crow’s feet lines.) 🫲🏻🫱🏻 They are two very different issues and I would say Ultherapy or HIFU cannot replace the job of Botox when it comes to treating dynamic wrinkles! Another TRUTH! 🙌🏻

3️⃣ Finally, is Ultherapy painful? Usually NOT PAINFUL if adequate pain control is given 🥰 For example, talking simple pain medications before the procedure, and a good serving and duration of topical numbing cream 💆🏻 I have a special formula which really helps, just so you know 😉 But NO, it does not have (or require) an additional cold-air blower for the skin. So this is the LIE! 😱 Cryogen or cold air spray is something the Thermage™ 💜 radio-frequency system uses. Ultrasound waves in HIFU skip the top layer of the skin and only get focused deeper, so cooling the surface is not super helpful!

🎉 So did you get it right? Want to play again? 🫶🏻 Stay tuned for my next post to learn more about other treatments that I do then! 🩷

In the mean time, if you have any questions, please comment and we can have a nice chat!

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