Do you feel that makeup doesn’t really fit your skin and probably settles into your wrinkles? Does your skin appear dry and patchy? Dr. Parag Telang’s 20+ years of experience in advanced facial aesthetic surgery, skin tightening treatment in Mumbai, and plastic surgery have made the skin tightening process more easily accessible than before
As you age, your skin loses its youthful freshness and elasticity, resulting in sagging folds, blemishes, and wrinkles. Whether it’s drooping cheeks or a less-defined jaw line, no worries, everything can be treated with trusted dermatological methods, in fact, without invasive surgery.
Collagen and elastin are the two essential components present in the skin that get lost with age. However, there are several reasons that make your skin lose its firmness and elasticity. A few common ones are:
All these skincare problems can be avoided with skin tightening treatment. Read further to learn everything about the methods, process, and benefits of skin tightening.
Skin tightening is the antidote to all the above-mentioned skincare problems. It regulates the production of collagen and elastin via both surgical and non-surgical methods.
Removes blemishes and wrinkles
No more sagging skin
Stimulates collagen and elastin
Youthful appearance
Non-invasive
There are two types of skin-tightening treatments– surgical and non-surgical. Usually, common problems of mature skin can be treated using non-surgical methods. Let’s know more:
In this procedure, the wrinkles and fine lines of skin are treated with thermal energy waves that dig deep into the dermis layer of skin and boost the collagen production rapidly. It’s a complete non-invasive method, a painless treatment for normal to moderate skin laxity.
Benefits
Areas treated: Face, neck, abdomen, and arms
Ultrasound therapy for sagging skin is another popular facial treatment that you can opt for long-lasting results. This therapy helps lift and tighten the skin using ultrasound energy that heats the deep dermal and subdermal tissue layers.
Benefits
Areas treated: Eyebrows, neck, and underchin
Laser tightening is also a similar cosmetic process, but it has minimal invasion and uses infrared light that heats the deep layers of the skin, and activates the collagen production of the skin for a more supple skin.
Benefits
Areas treated: jawline, under chin, neck, abdomen, arms, and thighs
Dermal fillers, also known as Injectable fillers, are medical device implants used to reduce wrinkles, scars, and fine lines. These are the gel-based devices filled with hyaluronic acid penetrated deep inside the skin to enhance the volume of the skin and restore the lost youthful appearance of the skin.
Benefits
Areas treated: Cheeks, lips, nose-to-mouth lines, marionette lines, under-eye hollows, and acne scars
The thread lift process involves the insertion of medical-grade threads under the skin to tone up the tissues of the skin. Moreover, the treatment is completely free of any incisions. The commonly used thread lifts are polydioxanone (PDO) threads.
Benefits
Areas treated: midface, cheeks, jawlines, neck, nose, and eyebrows
The problem of loose skin is treated with the help of surgical treatments, which involves removal of sagging skin and the repositioning of tissues beneath the skin to achieve tightening.
A facelift tightens loose facial skin and underlying muscles.
Benefits
Tummy Tuck is used to treat loose skin problem of tummy post-pregnancy. It removes excess abdominal skin and tightens abdominal muscles.
Benefits
While cosmetic non-invasive skin tightening surgery is completely safe, many individuals are fearful of its results. They may worry that the results will appear unnatural, dislike their appearance post-surgery, or find that the procedure was not performed as expected.
But that’s not the case; cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists discuss and meticulously examine the condition of your skin and suggest the most suitable treatment for long-lasting results. Everything is communicated by the doctors to the patients before stepping into the procedures.
Here are a few visible effects that require a doctor’s advice:
Skin tightening treatments usually depend upon various factors such as age, physical health, medical history and the existing condition of the skin. All these factors are carefully monitored by the cosmetic surgeons before performing any surgery. A few of them are:
Patients come as they are, and leave how they want to look.
Non-surgical treatments deliver a lasting impact from 6 months to 1 year
