Brow Lift by Ultrasound F.D.A. Approved

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More electronic gizmos are coming into the plastic surgery marketplace largely because people just don’t like to be taken out of their lives for surgical recovery. Even a week is often too much!

Unfortunately, there’s usually a trade off. Quick procedures that offer no, or very short, recovery times usually have results that don’t last very long.

Nonetheless, manufacturers still offer rejuvenation devices that harness various technologies like:

• Radio frequency
• Infrared
• Lasers

Usually billed as non-surgical skin tightening or non-surgical face lifts, high-tech machines, have a fairly mixed track records with patients.

For instance, RealSelf.com has 166 user reviews on radio frequency procedures; 37 percent said it was worth it.

For infrared technology, 55 percent of 22 former cosmetic surgery patients noted they were happy.

As for laser procedures, 86 percent of 15 former patients said it was worthwhile.

According to Dermatology Times, the new brow lifting technology – commercially known as the Ulthera System — uses ultrasound with a twist.

The practitioner sweeps the instrument over the treatment areas before, well, the treatment.

The machine measures the depth of the skin and delivers more heat to areas that need more tightening.

The chief investigator, Murad Alam, M.D. an associate professor of dermatology at Northwestern University, tested the device on 36 subjects.

Afterwards, Dr. Alam said the affect was more like treating the layers under the skin, and not the skin itself.

Could be.

Our concern: the last brow lift results on test subjects were made at 10 months out. However, a surgical brow lift can last five to ten years.

Also, the real test of any cosmetic surgery lies more in the art and skill of the practitioner and not the device the surgeon is holding.

Perhaps the true worth of any procedure is found in the surgeon’s before and after plastic surgery pictures, his or her level of training, board certification and what former patients say.

admin @ September 26, 2009