I had corrective jaw surgery that left me with some titanium pins and screws permanently in the bone. Am I precluded from doing radio frequency skin-tightening treatments?
This topic is getting so complicated, isn’t it!! I’ll try to help sort it out since the technology has literally been exploding in this area in the past few years....
You didn’t mention your age. 🙂 I’m mentioning that because for tightening the device is trying to tighten existing collagen and elastic fibers and then…help you build new collagen and...
You are so welcome!! I’ll answer a bit more specifically at the end, but you raised something I think would be helpful to others. How to talk to your doctor...
So glad you asked this. It comes up often. When we think about it… why do we want tightening? It’s really because we are perceiving sagging! Most of our patients...
For those of you who haven’t heard of these, the idea is that a thick “thread” (really just a large suture) is inserted under the skin. Then it’s anchored to...
Radiofrequency is a useful tool in the anti-aging world of dermatology. For those of you who have not experienced a radiofrequency treatment, it uses sound energy to heat the dermis,...
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