Skin Tightening

Loose skin is one description covering three different situations, and only one of them responds to tightening.

Skin can lose its own spring, and that is what this treatment is for. The fat and bone beneath it can shift downward, in which case tightening the surface changes very little, because the covering is intact and the structure under it has moved. Or skin can be left genuinely slack after significant weight loss, which is a surgical question rather than one for us.

Which of the three applies to you is established at your assessment, before any plan is made.

The treatment itself: heat is carried through gel into the layers beneath the surface, until the collagen already there contracts and your body begins forming more. The surface is never broken, so there is no wound and nothing to provoke a mark in skin that marks easily.

The tightening you notice on the day is modest and short-lived. The change that lasts develops across the following three months, and it comes from the new collagen rather than from the fibres you already had.

30 to 60 minutes / no downtime / back at work the same day / builds over two to three months

Treats: mild to moderate loosening along the jaw, throat and body, where the skin itself has lost its spring

Will not: replace lost volume, reposition fat that has descended, or correct skin left slack after major weight loss

Slow change in your own face is very hard to perceive, for you and for us equally. A profile photograph taken in daylight before the first session, looked at again at month three, is the only comparison that will tell you the truth.