Thread lifting is a safe and effective way of lifting and rejuvenating sagging skin on the face or other body parts. It is an innovative facial rejuvenation procedure designed to gently elevate sagging brows, cheeks, jowls and other areas. Due to the unique design of the threads, they act to hold the the skin in place without the need for visible scars.
A thread is inserted in to the skin and it causes a rejuvenating and lifting effect seen best after between 6 to 8 weeks. The thread can stay up to 8 months under the skin and results may last up to 18 months. It can also be used to lift loose skin around the stomach. Thread lifting is done under local anaesthesia with no cuts/incisions on the skin. At Allure Laser, Skin and Aesthetic Medicine Centre, we use the Silhoutte Soft, one of the best products worldwide for thread lifting.
Thread lifting refers to a procedure in which is mainly carried out with the objective of tackling the folds and sags found on different parts of the body including the face. Having gained acknowledgement as a solution for men and women that also bypass the healing duration and commitment required for an effective face lift, the procedure entails the placing of fine threats in the patient’s skin (Kang, Byun & Kim, 2017). The procedure is preferred by many individuals as it enables the tackling of folds and sags in various areas of the faces that might not be reached by other notable procedures.
Thread lifting and the other notable less invasive face lifting procedures were initially used as a means of changing the sags and various age related matters in the patient’s face and also in reducing the various effects of the aging process. The procedure gained prominence during the early 1990s; it has improved over time and become very popular.
Initially, the procedure was referred to as mid-face sling and involved the use of a single suture in the lifting of the facial skin. With time, physicians have enhanced and improved the thread lifting technique, and currently, approximately 2 to 6 suture threads along with cogs are used in every cheek to lift the facial skin.
The thread lifting procedure mainly entails insertion of a cannula with fine and absorbable suture threads into the patient’s facial skin. The employment of the cannula mainly reduced the risks associated with the swelling and bruising of the skin given that the blood vessels are not ruptured in the course of the procedure (Karimi & Reivitis, 2017). The tension within the threads, therefore, assists in the lifting of the skin through the pulling of the skin. This results in the tightening of the tightening of the skin in the areas under treatment.
Thread lifting may be utilized jointly with other medical treatments and procedures so as to realize optimal results. As such, the use of cogged and barbed threads along with the fat grafting has always been recommended for superior outcomes (Suh et al., 2015). Moreover, the use of threads together with microneedling and radiofrequency has also been proposed as it also assists in the tightening of the excess facial skin. However, it is worth noting that thread lifting as a procedure is incapable of tackling excess skin issues even though the use of monofilament threads tend to offer a given extent of skin tightening.
References
Kang, S. H., Byun, E. J., & Kim, H. S. (2017). Vertical lifting: a new optimal thread lifting technique for Asians. Dermatologic Surgery, 43(10), 1263-1270.
Karimi, K., & Reivitis, A. (2017). Lifting the Lower Face With an Absorbable Polydioxanone (PDO) Thread. Journal of drugs in dermatology: JDD, 16(9), 932-934.
Suh, D. H., Jang, H. W., Lee, S. J., Lee, W. S., & Ryu, H. J. (2015). Outcomes of polydioxanone knotless thread lifting for facial rejuvenation. Dermatologic surgery, 41(6), 720-725.