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Radiofrequency Skin Tightening
What is Radiofrequency (RF) Skin Tightening?
Skin tightening by radiofrequency (RF) Is a non surgical procedure that tightens the slack skin and makes the fine lines and wrinkles to look softer, giving the face a younger texture and sight.
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Non-invasive technique that can tighten facial or body skin
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Minimal discomfort
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Wrinkle reduction
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Face and neck lifting
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May be used for all skin types
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Increases collagen production
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Enhances luminosity of the skin
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These treatments are useful after a surgical procedure to improve skin quality
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No scarring
What can Radiofrequency (RF) energy treat?
Pure RF energy alone is primarily used to treat skin laxity by facial tightening, and is best suited to patients with mild to moderate sagging of facial tissues, usually those in their mid thirties to fifties, with any skin colour.
It is commonly used to treat the forehead (lift brows and tightens forehead skin), under the eyes (thickens skin and tightens and lifts the upper cheek skin), cheeks (lifts slightly and diminishes enlarged pores), mid-face, jaw line (diminishes jowling and sagging along the jaw line), and the neck (tightens skin and diminishes wrinkling of the neck).
RF is generally used therefore in 3 principle areas in cosmetic procedures:
1. Tightening
Non specific heating of the dermis by RF will not only stimulate new collagen production but can shrink collagen fibres by up to one third. This minimises the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles as the lines become tighter.
2. Deeper lines and wrinkles
As RF can penetrate into the subcutaneous and deeper dermal layers, the heat produced in the targeted regions can result in the stimulation of the body’s natural collagen (in contrast, for example, to the injection of collagen derived synthetically or from animals). This, has a much longer lasting effect over a course of treatments (8 sessions), than the more short term effects of injected collagen from an alien substance. However, the immediate results from RF treatment are not as dramatic.
3. Cellulite
Over the years many devices have been developed to reduce the effects of cellulite. Many of these have used a combination of a vacuum and rollers to aid circulation to the affected areas and to physically break down fat. However, it has recently been shown that RF can denature these affected areas. Cellulite is visible when fat clusters in the dermis become distended and elastin fibres are rigid, causing dimpling at the surface. RF heating disrupts fat clusters and over time causes new ‘stretchy’ elastin fibres to be produced and results in a smoother skin surface.
