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Nonsurgical Lifting and Tightening

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Attempts at counteracting the signs of aging, such as redundant facial and neck skin, have become increasingly popular. Traditionally, surgery was the sole treatment for skin laxity. However, with the recent advances in technology, conditions that once required major surgical intervention no longer do so. Devices like nonablative lasers (long pulse 1,064 nm Nd:YAG), have been initiated instead. Primarily created for skin resurfacing with a reduced posttreatment recovery time, these devices also exhibited improvement in skin laxity. Unfortunately, this benefit was modest at best, and thus radiofrequency (RF), infrared, and ultrasound devices were introduced for nonablative tissue tightening via volumetric heating of the deep dermis.

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    Shraddha Desai

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    Murad Alam

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Desai, S. (2012). Nonsurgical Lifting and Tightening. In: Alam, M. (eds) Evidence-Based Procedural Dermatology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09424-3_16

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