Non Ablative Fractional Treatment Better Than Any Thermage Treatment?

asked 2 years ago by desparate for toned skin. in Canada
Latest answer by Christopher J. Peers, MD
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I have been treated with Elos, Refirm skin tightening, for 3 years, I was happy in the begining but recently nothing seems to be doing on my face (in terms of toning, saggin, texturing) so I am considering Affirm non ablative fractional treatment, but afraid that Affirm wouldn't do much either. Any suggestion?

2 answers to Non Ablative Fractional Treatment Better Than Any Thermage Treatment?

Fractional and thermage have two different areas of focus

Fractional lasers allow resurfacing of a chosen fraction of skin AND deep heating to provide some collagen tightening. Thermage, and similar devices-such as Endy Med are not lasers, but producers of deep heat to tighten only.They do not have a resurfacing effect. There are so many individual factors that it would be difficult to say which produces the most tightening; but the fractional laer is the way to go if you are looking for skin resurfacing.

Christopher J. Peers, MD
South Bend Facial Plastic Surgeon

Laser resurfacing improves skin surface

Skin tightening procedures in my experience can help tighten the skin and make the skin more firm and less likely to fall -- as in when you reach down to tie your shoe or dig in your handbag - but these tightening procedures do not help skin surface irregularities, blotches or wrinkles. Laser procedures including the non-ablative fractional techniques can do very nice things to improve the surface of the skin - decrease fine lines and wrinkles, improve blotchy pigment and overall refresh... more

Elizabeth F. Rostan, MD
Charlotte Dermatologist

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Non Ablative Fractional Treatment Better Than Any Thermage Treatment?

Fractional and thermage have two different areas of focus

Laser resurfacing improves skin surface

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