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

Is it most ideal to use the highest settings possible when doing Ultherapy, with the only thing holding you back from using the highest settings being the patients ability to tolerate the pain, or are there other factors taken into account when choosing the settings?

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Ulthera Allows Customizable Skin Tightening

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

There are other factors

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.

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