How to plump the skin?

There are different techniques to plump the skin, but it must be understood that the phenomenon of aging in the face will first affect volumes. And it seems normal to restore initially these volumes: cheekbones, valley of tears to fill ... Once the volumes restored, we can attack the skin. And it is at the level of this coating that there is the radiance of the skin. We then have two points of possible impact at the level of the integuments: either to smooth them, or to redensify them.

To smooth the teguments, the procedure is first to understand that the skin, when it is attacked, it will heal. But he does not make the attack too deeply for it to fully recover. And we know the depth of this maximum aggression which lies at the junction between the superficial dermis and the deep dermis. So we have products that will act on different levels, be they chemicals , mechanical techniques such as dermabrasion, laser, pulsed light . And we can electively destroy the skin to a certain depth.

What is the best technique for smoothing the skin?

The ultimate for us today is the peels with the laser, but a laser called fractional. It will come to create some kind of wells at the level of the skin at depths that we will adjust according to the power of our laser and we will leave healthy skin intervals. We call it a split treatment because we will not treat all the skin at once. As a result, scarring is done in a few days against up to sometimes two weeks for other more aggressive techniques.

Are there other techniques to redensify the skin?

Other techniques that can be used to redensify the skin. And for us, the most efficient technique is radio frequency. It can be used in two ways: the standard radiofrequency administered by probes that resemble ultrasound probes and that will heat the integuments. And this heat will come generate a collagen production that will stiffen and redensify the skin. And if not, the ultimate in redensifying the dermis is a hybrid technique based on small needles that will administer a small electric shock that will destroy millimetrically and localized dermis. As there is destruction, there will be healing. And that will bring collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid. The radio frequency allows the needles to position themselves by spreading the epidermis and thus leave no visible scar.

Thanks to Dr. Claude Levy, specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery