One of the main reasons that we develop droopy and wrinkled skin is because of skin atrophy (thinning). Our skin loses collagen as we age, becoming less elastic and therefore loses its ability to withstand stretching and repeated creasing. The way we sleep, animate with speaking and eating, gravity and personal habits may all contribute to loose, wrinkled skin over time. Radiofrequency and Infra-Red light treatments stimulate new collagen production that we call remodeling. The skin responds to treatment by removing old, broken and deteriorated collagen with fresh, new, elastic collagen over a period of many months after treatment.
Our mainstay treatment for this purpose is called Thermage ®, however Skin-Tyte ® is also offered. Thermage is a single treatment of approximately 1 hour for the face and neck and 30 mins for the eyelids and surrounding skin. Treatments may be repeated between 1 to 3 yearly to maintain the skin’s elasticity and smoothness. Thermage has become faster, more effective and far easier to tolerate than before. Any person over the age of 35 should consider the preventive advantage of maintaining the skin’s elasticity in conjunction with maintaining volume with dermal fillers and preventing dynamic lines with Botox. Body treatments are also available.
