Over the last 9 months I have attended IMCAS World Conferences in both Paris and Singapore which have enabled me to source not only the most up to-date treatments available anywhere, but also the most cost effective. A very important consideration in these turbulent times.
My first acquisition was a Unipolar Radio-Frequency device, which research has shown is as, or even more effective, than the market leading Thermage treatment, and at a fraction of the cost!! What’s more, it is also virtually painless with absolutely no down. During the first 6 months of its use I have been absolutely delighted with the improvements achieved, which we know last up to 18 months. This device works in two ways by giving an immediate and obvious skin tightening, which is followed a few weeks later by thickening of the skin’s collagen layer.
The second acquisition, which involved a further 3 day visit to Florence with one of the world’s leading laser specialists, is a Fractional Carbon Dioxide Resurfacing Laser. This is now considered the gold standard in the treatment of all facial line or wrinkles, as well as excellent improvement in pigmentary changes, including Melasma. Again the device works by stimulating the body’s own repair mechanism to repair your own skin, resulting in very natural skin tightening and collagen thickening.
Both of these devices follow the newer trend to get the body to repair its own skin, rather than simply plumping it up with fillers. Surprisingly Botulinum Toxin injections such as Botox etc. still have a very important part to play in this modern approach to reducing the effects of aging. As the skin is flat, following the Botox injections, it then heals flat when we use these newer treatments, thus giving greater reduction in the appearance of lines and wrinkles.
Tags: Botox, collagen, Fractional Laser Resurfacing, IMCAS, lines and wrinkles, Radio Frequency, skin tightening, Thermage