I live in Texas and a doctor near me is offering an Energy lift that seems to help with a mini-lift. He says the fractional lazer is used to shrink connective tissue. Is this procedure worth it? long lasting? safe?
A fractional laser is best suited to rejuvenate the skin, but does not perform a facelift. If your main concern is lax skin and jowls, I would recommend you undergo a facelift. You can achieve some tightening from a fractional laser or other non-ablative laser such as ReFirme or Titan, however, the results are not the same as with a facelift.
Fractional laser provides a small amount of skin tightening. For the right patient, such as a patient with minimal looseness who had undergone a mini-lift with good results, this might be an excellent procedure. In experienced hands, the procedure has a high safety factor.
In general fractional laser has less downtime than traditional CO2 laser, but the results are less as well. Both fractional and CO2 lasers tighten the skin effectively.
Lasers of any type do not fix jowls. Jowls are caused by drooping of deep tissues (SMAS) plus significant skin looseness, problems that can best be addressed with a skillfully performed facelift.
Although board certified plastic surgeons might not be big fans of names" lunch time, life style, energy" etc., the underlying technology and mechanism might work.
We have to undestand how things work and what are the limitations of every technique. We use fractional laser to tighten faces and treat some laxity. I do not think that this could replace a classic face lift. Two different procedures and two different indications. Hope that helps!
I agree with everything the previous answer explained. If the lines are deep, you will get better results with a Phenol peel or a co2 laser peel. Of course, these will have more sown time associated with them since they go deeper in the skin to remove deeper wrinkles.
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