It’s an unfortunate fact of life that skin loses resilience with age. The good news is that cosmetic treatments can smooth and tighten loosening skin, and these treatments continue to improve every year. In the early stages, non-surgical treatments can work wonders to combat mild sagging and wrinkles.
Here, we’ll review our top non-surgical skin tightening and firming treatments, including what each of them can do and why you might consider them. (Note that we perform all of these treatments using a local anesthetic or light sedation to ensure your comfort.)
FaceTite Skin Rejuvenation
FaceTite is a minimally invasive treatment that uses radiofrequency energy to stimulate skin rejuvenation. The FaceTite device has fine pins that release precisely calibrated radiofrequency energy to heat the skin from the surface to its deeper layers. This procedure stimulates collagen production, a protein vital for skin resilience. Each session lasts less than an hour. Improvements appear over the next several weeks as your skin becomes smoother, firmer, and more flexible.
FaceTite treatments work well to tighten skin anywhere above the shoulders, including your cheeks, neck, jawline, forehead, mouth, eyes, and neck. FaceTite is a safe and effective skin tightening and firming treatment, with results from a single session lasting up to five years.
Morpheus8: Microneedling With Radiofrequency Energy
Like FaceTite, Morpheus8 uses fine needles to release radiofrequency energy to your skin, stimulating collagen production and skin rejuvenation. While FaceTite primarily treats the deeper layers of your skin, Morpheus8 treats the surface and the layers just below.
Morpheus8 combines the benefits of microneedling and radiofrequency energy. The combination produces remarkable skin-rejuvenating effects, reducing skin laxity while improving your skin’s tone and texture.
Morpheus8 is a safe and effective rejuvenating treatment for any area with discoloration, acne, stretch marks, or wrinkles, and can firm and tighten the skin on your neck and lower face.
Embrace RF: Combining FaceTite With Morpheus8
Embrace RF, which combines FaceTite with Morpheus8, is the next best thing to a surgical facelift. The pairing stimulates collagen production through all layers of your skin, firming, tightening, and improving its tone. It can also mold underlying facial fat to give your face, neck, and jawline younger contours. The combination of skin rejuvenation and fat treatment make Embrace RF such an impressive breakthrough.
An Embrace RF treatment session takes less than an hour, involves only a couple of days of downtime, and can take years off your appearance – all without surgery.
Use Embrace RF to address mild to moderate skin sagging on your face, jawline, and neck, including jowls. In addition to its skin-tightening effects, Embrace RF can also treat facial and neck wrinkles and deep creases between your mouth and nose. The treatment can make you look younger, fresher, and more alert and energetic. See examples of the results with actual patients in our before-and-after photo gallery.
BodyTite
BodyTite uses probes to administer radiofrequency energy to the deeper layers of the skin for a tightening and firming effect. It can also melt pockets of excess fat for removal with liposuction for body contouring improvements. Precisely controlled energy levels liquefy selected areas of fat while stimulating skin and connective tissue to tighten and become more flexible and resilient.
Popular BodyTite treatment sites include the buttocks, flanks, bra roll, back, knees, thighs, arms, neck, and abdomen.
Slimming and contouring results are visible immediately after treatment, though you’ll need one or two days of downtime to allow post-treatment swelling to subside, and will have to wear a compression garment for three or four weeks. Results will continue to improve for about three months as your skin responds to the treatment. Our patients love how well their skin contracts, smooths, and improves in tone after a single BodyTite session.
Other Treatments With Skin-Firming Effects
FaceTite, Morpheus 8, Embrace RF, and BodyTite are our top non-surgical treatments to firm loose skin, but we also offer other procedures with similar effects.
- Microneedling without radiofrequency energy stimulates collagen production for a rejuvenating effect. Combining microneedling with platelet-rich plasma further enhances the improvements.
- Skin resurfacing removes the outer layers of skin, stimulating cell turnover for new, more resilient and evenly colored skin.
Of course, non-surgical treatments cannot correct all sagging. Surgery may be the only effective solution for advanced skin laxity. We offer surgical treatments to address loose skin on the face, neck, and other parts of the body for patients who need more than non-surgical treatments can provide.
Choose a Skilled, Experienced Practitioner
With any cosmetic procedure, it’s imperative to find a provider you can trust. The treatments described here require precision and aesthetic judgment for optimal results. Dr. Parker Velargo at the New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery is a board-certified plastic surgeon. She and her staff expertly apply these and other treatments. Call us at (504) 533-8848 or contact us today to schedule your personalized consultation.
