Nonsurgical Skin Tightening Options
Nonsurgical skin tightening covers treatments that aim to firm loose skin without an operation, and a clinic can offer them as add-ons to a base visit. As an add-on, each one has a cost to add and a firming effect it is supposed to return.
What a firming add-on promises in return
Cleveland Clinic describes radio frequency (RF) skin tightening as a nonsurgical skin treatment to firm sagging skin. Cleveland Clinic also describes a nonsurgical facelift as a procedure to temporarily refresh, firm or plump the skin on your face.
The word temporarily matters when a bundle promises savings. An effect described as temporary should be priced with its duration in mind, so a low headline figure for one session says little about what the result costs per month. The AAD's guide to firming sagging skin lays out the range of options, which makes it a fair yardstick for any single offer.
The five extras, weighed one at a time
The articles below split the category by extra, so each one can be priced against the base visit on its own.
- Candidates for Loose Skin Treatment weighs who a firming add-on is meant for.
- Trial Findings on Ultrasound and RF Rejuvenation weighs the published trial evidence behind ultrasound and radiofrequency claims.
- Ultherapy and Focused Ultrasound Lift weighs a focused ultrasound lift as a paid extra.
- Radiofrequency Heating for Firmer Skin weighs radiofrequency heating as the alternative extra.
- How Long Ultherapy Results Last weighs the benefit window that an Ultherapy price depends on.
Two sources on ultrasound offers
Two published sources give outside context for the ultrasound offers. The ASDS page on ultrasound therapy for sagging skin is one. A retrospective cross-sectional study of patient satisfaction after micro-focused ultrasound with visualization is the other, and it shows how patients themselves rated a focused ultrasound treatment.
Three numbers to get from the clinic
Ask the clinic to write down the price of one session, the number of sessions its plan assumes, and the length of time it expects the result to last. A bundle that cannot state all three has not shown you what the extra costs per month of benefit.