What a Waste - Ultherapy - Barrington, IL

It's not 900 "holes" it's 15,000 TCP's or thermo coagulation points. It is non invasive (understand the term) and there is no downtime. Most issues that arise are a result of operator error and administering the treatment recklessly. Welts, bruises etc ate not the normal outcome. I would look long and hard at the provider before deciding to have any aesthetic treatment. Just because it's being performed by a doctor doesn't mean it's being done correctly. All Ultherapy providers are initially trceive extensive training and them have the option to undergo advanced training. A manufacturer isn't responsible for how it's product gets used after the training. So to say the marketing "buzzwords" are lies is just an emotional response and not one based in any kind of fact.

The first term you use is scientific euphemism for burns in the skin. It is the extensive scarring resulting from the "zaps" or burns that, eventually, in some people, pulls the skin tighter as scar tissue itself is tighter, and less flexible, than normal skin. This was the explanation a plastic surgeon who was trained in the technique gave to me. "Non-invasive" is a technical surgical term that is so widely divergent from the actual experience of the women who undergo the experience that it exposes the term as a carefully chosen marketing tool rather than information. Intense internal pain caused by an external agent is, for the practical purposes of those who purchase the treatment, highly invasive.

What the plastic surgeon failed to explain is that the TCP's are focused and delivered 4.5mm bow the skin not at the surface level on the epidermis but rather in the SMAS. If there are "burns" on the skin they are a result of improper technique.

Just burns in your muscles. Ultherapy is a really bad fad. My eyes changed color as with dozens of women. There are no real scientific evidence of double blind studies. Putting heat that close to the eye is insane.

Wow, this is so frightening. My eyes have also changed color after Ultherapy. Have your eyes healed at all, or reversed to their prior state?

yet if there are so many people looking for a place to voice their anger, their outrage, and their disgust at being robbed. . . .

for most people, having their face mangled evokes an "emotional" response. I got every penny back.

Those can be accessed via google search. There are nearly 300 adverse events that have been reported to the FDA regarding Ultherapy: http://google2.fda.gov/search?q=ulthera&client=FDAgov&site=FDAgov&lr=&proxystylesheet=FDAgov&output=xml_no_dtd&getfields=*&ie=UTF-8&ulang=en&ip=71.194.62.254&access=p&sort=date:D:L:d1&entqr=3&entqrm=0&oe=UTF-8&ud=1&filter=0&start=10

i think by now there are probably a high number of "adverse events" that have been reported on this sight, no?

There is always recourse. Especially when the FDA documents 284 adverse events reported. (See link in comment below) It's been 4 months and my side effecst are not yet "transient".

the Ulthera marketing brochure's buzz words---"no downtime" and "non-invasive" are, in fact, lies. the testimonials of welts, burns, swelling, nerve damage, volume loss et al. goes on and on. even if for the lucky those are transient, being in pain for weeks on end is, in fact, downtime. and having welts down the inside of your throat is terribly invasive. and no, i wasn't informed about any of it, but was told that there was no risk at all. See Dr. Maerks on this site about having to put women's faces back together after Ulthera.