Is It Always Best to Use the Highest Settings a Person Can Tolerate Pain Wise for Ulthera?
May 7, 2012
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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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Once the maximum results have been achieved a few months after an Ultherapy treatment, the aging process continues and collagen levels will eventually start to decrease again. It is perfectly safe to have another treatment a year later, and doctors actually recommend that patients come back in...
Whoever said it's not supposed to hurt hasn't had the treatment.
Ultherapy reaches very deeply into the skin and the ultrasound beams are focused into one tiny point. That's what you feel and it is not painless by any means.
You have the option of numbing blocks or other...
The few cases reported of nerve weakness after ultherapy seem to be temporary. If the marginal mandibular nerve is affected near the chin then there can be less depression of the lower lip on that side when opening the mouth. It can make the person appear to have had a stroke when opening the...