Our body’s ability to create collagen and elastin assists in maintaining tight skin. Unfortunately, its production decreases as we age, resulting in sagging skin, wrinkles, and fine lines.
Sagging skin is challenging since diet and exercise cannot improve its appearance. Previously, injectables and surgical procedures have offered a solution for skin tightening. However, today, new methods exist to tighten skin.
New Skin Tightening Methods
Not all skin tightening treatments involve surgery. Many non-invasive procedures provide outstanding results. Furthermore, they have no downtime, minimal discomfort, and no scarring, and patients can quickly resume activities once they are completed.
Non-Surgical Radio Frequency Skin Tightening
These treatments rejuvenate the appearance of your skin by comfortably and safely healing tissue underneath its surface. They stimulate the production of natural elastin and collagen, rebuilding a youthful, healthier complexion. Since the production of these substances is boosted below the surface, they improve sagging skin on the body and face.
Handheld devices deliver heat into the skin to generate collagen production. RF (radio frequency) targets your skin’s epidermis (outer layer) and effectively treats the neck, body, face, and hands. When combined with microneedling, it treats deeper skin layers with gradual results.
All skin tones can use non-surgical radio frequency. The treatments have no downtime, and sessions often last less than one hour.
While some clients notice improvements after one treatment, the desired results can take two to six treatments. However, the final results last nearly three years, assuming clients adhere to a proper skincare regimen.
Laser Skin Tightening
This procedure tightens the skin, decreases the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and smooths out the facial texture to provide a youthful appearance. It is non-surgical and minimally invasive, using an infrared laser to tighten skin.
The laser heats collagen under the surface of your skin, causing it to contract and boosting collagen production. The results of this treatment can be quite noticeable one week later with minimal downtime.
However, laser skin tightening treatments may not be as noticeable as a facelift when tightening wrinkles, fine lines, and addressing skin laxity. It does offer a safe non-surgical method to generate a firmer skin tone.
Ultrasound Skin Tightening
Micro-focused ultrasounds generate heat that penetrates the skin deeply (5 mm below the surface). It effectively lightens and tightens skin on the upper chest, face, and neck, while reducing wrinkles.
The results may take six months to be noticeable. However, some clients notice them after only a single treatment.
Intense Pulsed Light (IPL)
With this procedure, several light wavelengths penetrate deeply into your skin layers. Clients require multiple treatments to obtain the best results. RF tends to be combined with IPL to target deeper layers.
IPL permits experts to treat more significant skin amounts and various skin issues. However, IPL is not ideal for those with darker skin tones or who are tanned.
Morpheus8
This treatment combines fractional therapy, needling, and radiofrequency. Morpheus8 heats skin tissue by penetrating it with microneedles to contour and sculpt it. As the needles pierce the skin, they promote collagen production, giving it a healthier look.
Its most distinctive feature is its ability to penetrate the skin further than other needles. Targeting subdermal skin layers can better tighten, contour, and rejuvenate the skin to an optimal level.
Additional Methods
If you are hesitant to try these procedures, you can consider other options for facial rejuvenation. Fillers, Botox, PRP, and supplements are commonly used to achieve a youthful appearance. At Solomon Facial Plastic, we offer an array of options to accommodate our clients’ needs.
Soft Tissue Fillers
Dermal fillers, biostimulators and semi-permanent fillers are also options to address an aging face that requires volume and collagen production. These filler injections plump the skin and decrease the appearance of wrinkles. However, some may only provide temporary results.
Botox
Botox prevents specific muscles from contracting when injected into them. It makes the skin look smoother, with noticeable results within three days and lasting for several months.
Topicals and Supplements
Topical ointments and creams can elicit mild improvements. Searching for products containing retinoids like tazarotene, adapalene, or tretinoin is best. Most people notice improvements in wrinkles and fine lines several months after continued usage.
Other materials that can benefit the skin include:
- Niacinamide
- Vitamin C
- Peptides
- Retinol
- Alpha hydroxy acids
We also advise clients to regularly apply moisturizers to plump their skin, creating a youthful appearance, and to apply sunscreen to prevent damage to the skin.
The Advantages of Non-Surgical Skin Tightening
Using non-invasive surgical tightening methods has benefits far outweighing their surgical counterparts. These benefits include the following:
1. Convenient and quick
Everyone is busy with their careers, families, friends, and daily activities. This busyness doesn’t leave much time for skin tightening treatments. However, non-surgical skin treatments are a viable option. They take only 20 minutes to one hour to complete, which means less downtime and treatment time.
All you have to do is book an appointment and go to the facility with minimal disruption to your daily routine.
2. No incisions
These treatments are non-invasive but provide long-lasting effects. Individuals are safe from harmful side effects due to cosmetic surgery, including incision healing. At most, our clients may experience slight redness or discomfort, which quickly subsides.
3. Fewer risks and less severe side effects
These treatments cause minimal to no scarring, and clients are not at risk of complications, including infection. As such, non-invasive procedures are a more intelligent and safer choice for many clients.
4. Beautiful, subtle results
Instead of a drastic change, non-surgical treatments provide subtle, natural changes that radiate a youthful glow from within.
Are you ready for a more youthful glow?
Non-surgical skin tightening selectively reduces sagging and unwanted loose skin. These treatments allow the skin to naturally produce more collagen, which creates a firmer, denser skin. Our advanced procedures enable our clients to reverse the clock on their complexions.
Our treatments offer excellent solutions for reducing fine lines, sagging skin, and wrinkles. Many treatments can also be used throughout the body, which is a further advantage.
Call Solomon Facial Plastic at 855-519-2799 (Thornhill Clinic) or 416-864-6100 (Davenport Clinic) for a free consultation. You can also fill out our online form.
Apr 29th 2025