All things age with time. Consider your favorite blanket or sweater. Over time and through wear, these items begin to lose their shape and structure as their fibers loosen. The skin works similarly; as your internal framework weakens, your skin becomes lax and sags.
Thankfully, our expert team at Cosmedica Aesthetics uses nonsurgical skin tightening treatments in Burlington to strengthen and restore our patients’ skin. Whether it’s crepey skin on the face or sagging underarms, we can provide an experience that helps you exude confidence again.
To learn about your options for skin tightening at our practice, keep reading.
What Causes Skin Laxity?
As the body’s largest organ, your skin requires support against environmental factors and natural changes you experience. Especially as you get older, your skin produces less collagen and elastin, 2 proteins that keep it strong and resilient. With a decrease in these proteins, skin becomes loose and wrinkly without the strength it needs.
Although this process is natural, you can maintain healthier skin by practicing healthy habits such as protecting your skin from sun damage and not smoking. However, some factors are out of your control. Let’s look at our options for skin tightening at Cosmedica.
Exion™ RF Microneedling: Tighten and Restore
As one of the most advanced skin tightening treatments in Burlington, radiofrequency (RF) microneedling helps restore collagen and elastin fibers while promoting a clearer complexion. The Exion device uses RF energy to target the lower layers of the skin, while microneedles stimulate your body’s natural healing response.
How Exion™ RF Microneedling Works
Exion™ RF microneedling provides a robust rejuvenating treatment that effectively tightens loose skin and reduces signs of aging. To begin, your provider applies a topical numbing cream, which makes the service more tolerable.
Once the numbing cream takes effect, your provider passes the Exion™ device over your skin. The microneedles create tiny, controlled injuries on your skin, puncturing 4mm deep while simultaneously emitting RF energy. The microneedles allow the RF energy to penetrate twice as deep, where it applies thermal energy.
The thermal energy helps build new skin cells, the collagen and elastin fibers reshaping and tightening the skin. Since collagen synthesis does not happen immediately, your results from Exion™ RF microneedling improve over time. After completing the recommended treatment plan, many patients see a reduction in wrinkles, fine lines, loose skin, and overall improvements in skin clarity.
Exion™ RF Microneedling Treatment Overview
Here’s what you can expect with Exion™ RF microneedling at Cosmedica Aesthetics.
- Consultation: Yes
- Numbing: Yes
- Sessions needed: 3, but can vary
- Appointment length: 60 to 90 minutes
- Downtime: Little downtime with minor redness
- Results duration: Initial results can be seen 1 week after your first appointment, with full results lasting up to 1 year
Emface™: Tighten and Lift
Emface™ is another one of our skin tightening treatments in Burlington. Our talented nurses use Emface™ to effectively tighten and lift the skin while strengthening your facial muscles. The applicators use 2 noninvasive energies to stimulate collagen and promote a youthful appearance.
How Emface™ Works
At Cosmedica Aesthetics, we have various Emface™ attachments we can use to target areas of your face. We have standard attachments that we apply to your cheeks and forehead, as well as an undereye applicator, and a submentum pad that targets the jawline and double chin area.
Your provider places each of the applicators on the respective areas of your face, which emit high-intensity facial electrical stimulation (HIFES) and RF energy simultaneously. The HIFES triggers muscle contractions to strengthen your facial muscles, while the RF energy applies thermal energy to tighten the skin.
Many patients see tighter skin and a more sculpted facial structure within 2 to 4 weeks after their first appointment. After completing the recommended number of skin tightening treatments in Burlington with Emface™, you should begin to see results that improve over time. Progress is ongoing as the collagen continues to rebuild and strengthen the skin.
Emface™ Treatment Overview
Here’s a glance at what Emface™ skin tightening looks like at our practice.
- Consultation: Yes
- Numbing: No
- Sessions needed: 4 to 6
- Appointment length: 20 minutes
- Downtime: None, you can return to your activities immediately
- Results duration: Initial results seen in 2 to 4 weeks, with full results lasting up to 1 year
Radiesse: Tighten and Fill
If you are looking for a treatment with no downtime and very natural results, try Radiesse. We use this structural filler to improve the appearance of loose skin, adding volume back to the treatment area and increasing your body’s collagen production. Let’s take a look at what makes Radiesse one of our most popular skin tightening treatments in Burlington.
How Radiesse Works
Radiesse is an FDA-approved, biocompatible dermal filler that stimulates collagen production to fill wrinkles, tighten skin, and restore lost volume. This injectable treatment is made with calcium hydroxyapatite (CaHA), whereas most other fillers are made with hyaluronic acid.
Over time, Radiesse gets absorbed by your body through natural metabolic processes, making it a great option for patients who are starting their aesthetics journey and are looking for natural results. When using Radiesse, we can address loose, crepey skin on the face, arms, tummy, upper knees, and buttocks.
Radiesse Treatment Overview
Here’s what you can expect with Radiesse at Cosmedica Aesthetics.
- Consultation: Yes
- Numbing: Yes
- Sessions needed: 1 to 2
- Appointment length: 40 minutes
- Downtime: None
- Results duration: Initial improvements can be seen immediately, with results lasting up to 2 years
ZO Skin Health: Skin Tightening Products
Supporting your skin before and after your aesthetic treatments with medical-grade skincare helps enhance your results. If you want a way to combine your in-house treatments with skincare at home, take a look at our ZO Skin Health offerings.
Our team can help you create a skincare regimen to reduce the signs of aging, keep your skin hydrated, and improve overall texture. Here are a few of our recommendations for skin-tightening skincare:
- Wrinkle + Texture Repair: This retinol restores hydration and improves the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. The specialized treatment helps lift sagging skin and replenishes natural hyaluronic acid for plump and youthful skin.
- Growth Factor Serum: This serum restores skin’s elasticity, minimizes the appearance of expression lines, and promotes skin smoothness. Using this serum nightly can promote a youthful complexion.
If you have a specific goal in mind with your skincare routine, contact our team to discuss your options. We can help you discover the power of high-quality products and how they can support your skin before, during, and after your aesthetic journey.
Frequently Asked Questions About Skin Tightening
Now that we’ve discussed your options for skin tightening treatments in Burlington, let’s answer some of the most commonly asked questions about our services.
How do I know which treatment is best for me?
We make finding your perfect treatment easy. When you choose Cosmedica Aesthetics as your destination for aesthetics, we invite you to sit down with a certified member of our team for an individualized consultation.
Here, we ask about your expectations with skin tightening treatment, how much downtime you have, and what specific areas you wish to tighten. We explain your options and discuss any factors that might hinder your ability to receive treatment.
Once we have an understanding of you as the patient, we can recommend one or more of our treatments to you.
What treatment areas can I receive skin tightening on?
When it comes to tightening the skin on the face and body, we can target various areas of concern with our treatments.
Emface™ works on the cheeks, forehead, undereyes, and jawline. Exion™ RF microneedling can treat the face, but we can also use the device on the neck, knees, and arms. And, we can use Radiesse on the thighs, buttocks, arms, abdomen, and more!
When discussing your areas of concern, our team recommends the optimal treatment for targeting loose skin on the face or body.
Book Your Consultation to Get Started
Wrinkles, loose skin, and volume loss happen as we age, but it’s not something we have to accept forever. Using advanced skin tightening treatments in Burlington, the team at Cosmedica Aesthetics helps patients discover youthful radiance.
Let us partner with you on your aesthetics journey to help you love your skin again. Book your appointment online to meet with our providers and discuss your goals.
Or, use our treatment planning tool to tell us about your goals virtually. Once we receive your submission, we’ll provide our treatment recommendations.
About Cosmedica Aesthetics
Built on a foundation of over 15 years of experience in medical aesthetics, Cosmedica Aesthetics now serves as a leading practice in Burlington. We are ever-evolving, consistently harnessing the latest advancements in the industry. Whether it’s facials or wrinkle prevention with injectables, we can meet your needs with our services. Trust the experts for a journey filled with expertise, empathy, education, and empowerment.
