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Does home Ultherapy worsen jowls?

mp12345Sep 3, 2014
I've been using an UltraMed 3mhz setting ultrasonic home device as Ultherapy. But I've stopped for now, after 3x usage, because it seems my jowls are actually worsening. All the images I have seen before and after of Ultherapy patients seem to make jowls worse. Is nobody seeing this? What's the issue here? Thank youl.

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