44yo, Profound treatment on chin/lower face 2/14/19

I was told that Profound would give me profound results, that no surgery was needed - no lower face lift or neck lift - but that this new Profound treatment would tighten up all that. Let's dig in to this. I feel like men and women around the country, possibly the world, are being promised results that we're not experiencing. I think there are several things that contribute to the Profound sales pitch to make it work: first, it's expensive. And if it's expensive then it can't be bunk, right? Also, it promises fantastic results. The promotional pics look great, don't they? I've yet to see a single image of a real person who's had this done that looks even remotely improved, though. It's "new technology." That seems promising somehow, doesn't it? And you have to wait 6 months to start seeing results so I think we get it done and figure that eventually, our results will start to happen. I have a sinking sensation that we've all been taken for a ride, but nothing would make me happier than to be wrong.
To sort it out one way or another, I'm going to post my very real before and after pics here, and we can all judge together.
I've had a few other surgical procedures done - I have small Mentor gel breast implants and tummy lipo, and those things are great. It's this Profound treatment that is unproven that I feel needs more reviews on Real Self.

I don't think I can edit the wording on my initial review post. I would change some things if I could. I'm not in any way implying that my doctor did or would sell me on any procedure as a "cash grab." It's quite the opposite feeling, actually. It was because he referred the procedure for me, and I intuitively trusted his expertise (and still do), that I did it without much research into it, though.

It was only later as I was healing, and learning more about Profound, that I started to think that there aren't many, if any, proven results from this pricey RF treatment. I've yet to see something from a real person that looks anything like the Before and After pics of the promotional materials. I've yet to see any post from a real person that had ANY noticeable tightening from Profound. This is what's giving me pause. What a time to research, after I've gone and done it, haha. But I don't regret it because I will give my unflinching review and help others. Plus, maybe it does actually work and I'll have a noticeably tightened jaw line in 5 months! I would be so thrilled.

Anyway, Dr. Iteld is great and I highly recommend him. I think that, if anything, that the manufacturer of Profound may have overpromised their product and padded their results in some way. I don't blame individual doctors for wanting to offer new and exciting treatments, of course not. My suspicion is raised about Profound, though, because their promotional materials promise, among other things, "100% response rate for facial wrinkles," and while I'm not even sure what that means, technically and scientifically speaking, it takes only a few minutes to check out real reviews on realself where many Profound receivers say they didn't get any results, much less noticeable ones. Semantics aside, that's obviously not 100% for anything.

These pics are from 24-48 hours post procedure.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to go back and edit the dates of my post/updates so far. My Profound was done on 2/14/19, today is 3/15/19. I took these pics just now, in case I can't figure out how to correct the previous entries, so at least I can post accurate pics from today on. The results are all that really matter here, imo, anyway. There are other users pics from immediately following the procedure but there aren't a lot of monthly timeline post procedure pics. At one month in, I'm still waiting to return to pre-Profound skin laxity under my chin, the area that was treated. Fingers crossed. :-)