Facelifts with using threads: How safe are they?

Non-surgical cosmetic procedures are opted for by almost 90 per cent women in today's world. Many procedures are effective such as the newest model of the Theramge with the larger tip thereby delivering more energy with much less discomfort than the older Thermage. We also use the new upgraded Fraxel laser for skin rejuvination and the Acculift laser for skin tightening and non surgical neck lifts. Many patients ask us about the facelifts using threads. They have been around for more than fifteen years and the manufacturers keep coming up with "new and improved" versions including the recent introduction of the "Silhouette Thread"". However, many surgeons in Europe who are always ahead of their US counterparts in trying newer technologies, continue to report rare but serious complications with this procedure that do not manifest themselves until a year or longer down the line.  

Procedure Benefits

• This is a minimally-invasive surgery.

• It is a cosmetic procedure to improve wrinkles, sagging skin and jowls.

• This procedure involves the use of special threads placed through a needle.

• The threads placed on the skin stimulate the production of collagen.

• It improves the elasticity of skin.

• It reduces wrinkles and firms sagging skin.

  
  

  Potential complications: infection, rejection of the threads, dimpling and migration of the thread to a visible layer under the skin that is in rare cases impossible to fix.