Is It Always Best to Use the Highest Settings a Person Can Tolerate Pain Wise for Ulthera?

A patient's pain tolerance is not the only factor to be considered with Ultherapy and the energy settings, the number of joules, is not the only variable that the physician can adjust to deliver the optimal treatment to each patient. In our clinic, we have been experimenting with varying the number and the patterns of lines that we can lay down in different areas of the face, with very satisfying results! In addition to the patient's pain tolerance, a physician experienced with... more

Patient pain tolerance is subjective and highly variable. Although generally speaking, higher energy is attempted to be delivered during Ultherapy, we have found that for certain areas of face specially, tailoring amount of enery used can yield better result. Important thing to remember that not patients are different, and thus require different and unique set of parameters for optimal result.