Ultrasound will replace plastic: new possibilities of the Ulthera System lifting device

Modern hardware cosmetology is increasingly competing with plastic surgery in terms of effective facial rejuvenation. Not so long ago, only experienced surgeons were involved in tissue tightening at the level of the musculoaponeurotic layer, and today the Ulthera System  allows you to do this without resorting to surgery. The device acts with a focused ultrasound wave on the SMAS system, resulting in a lasting facelift effect.

Ulthera System features  and about the results that can be achieved with its help, especially for the readers of estet-portal.com an interview with Anastasia Saibel, PhD, dermatologist, expert Merz Aesthetics, Ulthera.

What are the features of the lifting machine?

- This is a unique ultrasonic lifting technique developed by   researched in the USA. It really has a very deep and effective effect on the patient's skin, but you need to follow the rules for working with the device so that the correction results are excellent and without any undesirable effects.

Definitely, this is the procedure that allows the patient either to come to a plastic surgeon later, or not to think about plastic surgery at all, or   - if the surgical intervention has already taken place in the past - to save the result of surgical correction for a long time.

How does the Ulthera System lifting machine work?

- Ulthera therapy – this is the work of focused and, as physicists say, collimated ultrasound, which acts in the skin at a clearly defined depth – an average of 4.5 mm. This penetration depth is the level of the SMAS system, the superficial muscular-aponeurotic layer. Then further branches of this system go higher, and a sensor is used that works at a depth of 3 mm. If it is necessary to minimize the fibers and enhance the change in skin quality, you can use a 1.5 mm sensor, and thus rejuvenate the SMAS system of the face in many stages.

Its instantaneous contraction is caused by the fact that focused ultrasound forms thermocoagulation points at this well-defined depth. Then, at these points, collagen of the first type is formed, and we see an increase in lifting   - in patients aged before menopause, this is observed by the end of the third month, in older patients - by the end of the sixth month, but everyone always has a lifting.

The severity of skin tightening after using the  Ulthera System lifting device depends, again, on the initial condition of the patient, but everyone has the result, and it lasts for a year and a half.

The uniqueness of the procedure is that the face does not change its proportions, does not cause any planar changes, unlike surgical SMAS-lifting.

The face seems to fall into place as a result of the work of focused ultrasound. Many plastic surgeons in clinics use Ulthera-therapy, because even when a patient comes in with gravitational changes, and we understand the need for surgical correction, patients are not always immediately ready for surgery, because it requires a rehabilitation period. Then we can do Ulthera therapy first, the patient plans his time in such a way that the surgeon subsequently removes the excess tissue that has appeared after the lift, and then again we can save & nbsp; results with Ulthera-therapy.

Which treatments can be combined with Ulthera therapy?

- Very often in older patients, when menopause already determines the reduced synthetic activity of cells, we prescribe reinforcement with Radiesse in the areas where we will carry out Ulthera-therapy, then, after 2-3 months, we carry out Ulthera-therapy, laser resurfacing, to get more pronounced results. This is how everything is combined.