Why Isn't the Contour Thread Lift Available Any More?

A basic concept in Facial Plastic Surgery is that the procedure should match the indications it is designed to correct.  Thread lifting involves use of a barbed permanent suture which is used to re-contour the face without adequate soft tissue mobilization.  It sounds great but doesn't work very well or for very long in real life.  Unfortunately, many patients who had indications for a Facelift received "thread lifts" and noticed minimal results with poor longevity.  The procedure was relatively expensive for the result it provided, causing what I describe as a "price to result mismatch".  The Contour Thread product has since been pulled from the market for a variety of reasons.

I am not aware of any class actions with threadlifts.  They were fairly popular about 15 years ago but they simply didn’t work.  Fast forward and there are a new type of suture for thread lifts.  Work any better?  Of course not.  It is an inherently flawed concept and a total waste of money.

Contour threads were a reasonable alternative to facelift for a segment of the population.  However, the manufacturer was sold and then stopped marketing them.  This might have resulted from litigation because the threads were available to any physician who was willing to purchase them, not board certified plastic surgeons but I was told that they also weren't profitable.