Skin tightening will improve sagging of the skin along the jaw line, around the mouth and nasal labial fold, and in the marionette areas. The brows may be falling causing extra skin around the eyes and a lower than desired brow position. Sagging commonly occurs under the chin, as well as in the angle of the neck. This can all be improved by skin tightening.

Skin tightening can be accomplished with radio frequency in one session, using Thermage™. This is a very safe technique, which first cools the skin then heats it then cools it again, to shrink the skin from the inside out without any surface damage.

We also use elōs™ Synergy which combines radio frequency with infrared, to heat the skin and create shrinkage. This modality is used at our Vision MediSpa with great success. It takes five treatments, done once a month, to accomplish the skin tightening.

Thermage™ is a little more painful, but is all done in one session.

The elōs™ Synergy infrared and radio frequency treatment, using the skin tightening head, allows some focus on specific areas. As the treatment progresses over the series of five treatments, each treatment is a little less painful and does not require any anesthetic sedation. It is done by our esthetician, under the supervision of Dr. Young.

Both treatments can be effective to create skin tightening without downtime. The miracle of these technologies is that they only cause a little redness and swelling, usually for an hour or so after the treatment, at the most. Basically you can go right back to your life after the treatment is over, without any downtime and with very, very low risk. This is so, especially compared with the other alternative, which of course would be surgery, including face lifts, arm lifts, thigh lifts, and lower body lifts.