Skin Tightening

Skin Tightening

Skin Tightening Through Soft Tissue Coagulation for Firmer Faces, Firmer Bodies and Fastest Recovery

Loss of skin elasticity is a classic sign of aging skin - or photodamaged skin. When skin elasticity lessens, it can result in sagging skin in the face and neck - as well as on the arms, legs and stomach. Not surprisingly, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery ranks tummy tucks as one of the top five cosmetic surgical procedures performed in 2008.

Traditional surgical skin tightening procedures are expensive and painful and require significant patient recovery times. Palomar's light-based skin tightening through soft tissue coagulation gives you a nonsurgical solution that results in firmer, smoother, more youthful-looking skin after a well-tolerated, in-office treatment that requires little to no recovery time.

Our skin tightening technology uses pulses of infrared light to create fractional areas of deep heating. This causes soft-tissue coagulation that tightens tissue as it heals, while our proprietary Advanced Contact Cooling promotes client comfort and safety.

Not all skin tightening procedures are equal. Palomar® has pioneered the technology and perfected the procedure with our unique fractional approach that delivers highly effective heat to greater depths with less skin trauma, for superior skin tightening with greater comfort and ease.

Skin tightening with Palomar is noninvasive, so there's no risk of infection -making ours a safer and faster procedure your clients will gladly choose.

How Skin Tightening Through Soft Tissue Coagulation Works

Skin tightening with Palomar uses pulses of infrared light to create fractional areas of deep heating. These heated areas coagulate tissue in the dermis and hypodermis while Advanced Contact Cooling preserves the epidermis and upper dermis. The body's natural healing response generates new tissue, reducing skin laxity and causing the skin to appear tighter.

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Columns of infrared light create islands of deep
heating in the dermis while preserving the epidermis.

Palomar offers the following equipment for skin tightening:
StarLux® Systems

Skin Tightening handpieces
LuxDeepIR

Benefits for Clients:

  • Tighter, firmer-looking skin
  • No incisions, no risk of infection
  • No downtime
  • A well-tolerated procedure
  • Dramatic skin tightening results

Benefits for Practitioners:

  • Tightens lax skin on the face and body
  • Noninvasive for a minimal-risk treatment
  • No disposable costs
  • Customized thermal control to better meet client requirements
  • Advanced Contact Cooling and integrated contact sensors to promote safe treatments

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Photos courtesy of Christine Dierickx, MD
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Photos courtesy of Robert Weiss, MD
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Photos courtesy of Scott Wells, MD
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Photos courtesy of Khalil Khatri, MD
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Laser skin tightening with Palomar Medical is proven to deliver excellent aesthetic results with safety and ease. Browse our clinical studies and learn why it may be the right investment for your practice right now.

Fractional Skin Tightening

Skin Tightening with Palomar's StarLux-IR Deep Dermal, Fractional Heating
Dierickx C., Altshuler G., Erofeev A., Smirnov M., Childs J., Yaroslavsky I. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 2007.
(Abstract.)

Fractional Infrared Light for Skin Tightening: Six Month Prospective Study
Weiss R. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 2007.
(Poster)

Dermal/Hypodermal Junction as a New Target for Deep Fractional Thermal Treatment
Dierickx C., Altshuler G., Childs J., Tabatadze D., Yaroslavsky I. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 2007.
(Abstract.)

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