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I’ve just updated this article on Ultherapy and the controversy around it because this post, and the accompanying video, have had so much interest. My views on the treatment haven’t changed, the technology is still hugely popular and there is still widespread concern about whether it melts fat in the face. Read on for the latest version.
I get lots of questions about Ultherapy – a non-surgical treatment that uses focused ultrasound to lift and tighten the skin. So, I’ve done a video (which is over on my YouTube channel and also further down in this post), talking about why it is seen as a controversial treatment, whether it hurts as much as people say it does, and why I like it.
It doesn’t take much Googling to find people saying things online like ‘Ultherapy melted my face’. Not what you want to hear about a treatment you might be considering for facial rejuvenation! Merz, the company behind Ultherapy, says any treatments that gave this sort of result were not done with genuine Ultherapy machines. Is that too glib an answer? Like most people I tend to think there’s no smoke without a fire, but the practitioners who do a great deal of Ultherapy say absolutely not – you get no problems if you follow the treatment protocols and, obviously, use genuine machines (Counterfeiting is as much of an issue in aesthetic medicine as in any industry.).
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In the past few years, there has been increasing awareness of how energy-based devices can reduce fat beneath the skin. Whether that energy is radiofrequency, RF needling or ultrasound, if it is aimed into the fat layer beneath the skin, it certainly has the power to melt it. So, if practitioners are looking to stimulate collagen with Ultherapy, they need to use the visualise tool – which shows at what depth in the skin they are working – with great accuracy.
On the other hand, if you actually want to reduce fat in the face, this can be helpful and some practitioners use Ultherapy specifically for this purpose. ‘ I would only use Ultherapy for fat reduction using a 4.5mm and 3mm transducer on lower face and chin,’ says Dr Jinah Yoo. ‘I would use other devices for collagen stimulation; different ultrasound-based energies can give different results but I would mainly use Ultherapy for fat reduction.’
Caption: With Esther Loughran, a leading aesthetic nurse who has been doing Ultherapy for years.
It’s not the most comfortable treatment but it’s not intolerable, particularly not now that clinics offering the treatment offer decent pain-management protocols, which may involve diazepam as well as ibuprofen and paracetamol. (I go into this in more depth in the video). The first time I tried Ultherapy, it was more uncomfortable, but that was with the first version of the machine, which used a much higher intensity of focussed ultrasound (I wrote about this Ultherapy experience back in ). The newer version of the treatment is definitely more tolerable. In the video, you can see I’m not flinching or wincing; I had ibuprofen and paramol to take the edge off the pain, but not the diazepam which was offered because a) I was cycling home and b) I had a speaking engagement later that day so needed to keep my wits about me.
Because it works. I’ve tried the treatment three times in the past five years and each time can see the instant tightening effect that you get (small yet noticeable). But, what really brings the improvement is the way the collagen in the face is boosted and remodelled over the next few months after treatment. It really does seem to be helping my neckline, which otherwise would be going south with age. I’ve only tried it on my face and neck, but I know practitioners are using this technology to tighten up saggy tummies and knees, too.
It is expensive – at around £3,000 for the whole face – but then it’s a one-off treatment that should keep you going for 18 months. Also, people who take a ‘no needles’ approach to face-maintenance can just about square this with their consciences.
There are a couple of similar treatments using focussed ultrasound. I haven’t tried HIFU (high intensity focused ultrasound) but have heard plenty of good reports of it, and I have tried Ultracel (with Dr Sarah Tonks at The Lovely Clinic) which combines ultrasound treatment with radiofrequency treatment (for a shrink-wrapping effect on skin collagen). This was much more comfortable than Ultherapy, but then it may have been on a lower setting, and it did again gave an instantly visible result. Here’s a video about Ultracel with Dr Rita Rakus, if you’d like to know more.
I have more recently tried Sofwave, in , which showed me a visible result – here’s the article and video about my Sofwave treatment.
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