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The science of non-surgical skin tightening is a fast growing area of aesthetic medicine. With more and more of us demanding minimally invasive ways of improving skin laxity, without succumbing to the knife and a surgical face lift, more and more devices and modalities are being discovered which can meet this need.
Practitioners are now able to use technologies such as radiofrequency and various types of lasers, or a combination of the two modalities for skin tightening treatments; and now infra red light is also being used. All of these technologies are being harnessed in a variety of devices which can then deliver the energy to a targeted area of the skin, causing heating of the underlying tissues. This heat causes the collagen within the skin to be damaged, in a controlled way, that makes it tighten almost immediately, and also starts off the body’s own healing process to produce fresh, new collagen which continues the tightening process over a period of months; aiming to produce a more youthful appearance to the skin in the treated area. If you are considering treatment with infra red laser skin tightening, the following information will give you a basic understanding of the procedure. It can't answer all your questions, since a lot depends on the individual patient. Please ask a practitioner about anything you don't understand.