High Intensity Focussed Ultrasound (HIFU)

1) Ultrasound: is sound that is about a thousand times more high-pitched than the human ear can hear.

Humans can hear sounds from 20Hz to 20,000 Hz

Our HIFU emits sound at 4,000,000 Hz or 7,000,000Hz.

2) "Focussed" ultrasound is ultrasound passed through a "lens" so that all the ultrasound waves get focussed at a single point.

3) So HIFU is a device that focusses high-energy ultrasound waves to a specific spot under the skin.

That treated spot deposits energy to (1) kill fat cells, or (2) heat muscle cells to cause contraction, or (3) heat other cells to stimulate collagen formation.

A Brow lift is not usually easy to achieve. Brow lift surgery can be surprisingly extensive and invasive.

It is great we now have a non-invasive treatment that can bring about a brow lift.

And what HIFU does is focusses its energy into the frontalis muscle, responsible for lifting the brow.

The HIFU energy heats the muscle - and heated muscles contract and heal in a contracted state - as anyone who has ever torn a hamstring can confirm.

One treatment yields a lift of 0.5mm to 1.7mm (different studies have yielded a range of results), 

And more treatments are expected to yield a bigger lift.

And virtually *any* lift yielded this easily is good value.

You've got several options when it comes to diminishing jowls:

1) Lose weight

2) Liposuction. Expensive, invasive, and might give irregular results.

3) Cryolipolysis. Might cause paradoxical fat hypertrophy. After treatment to *reduce* fat the fat *gets bigger instead*.

4) Face lift. Expensive, invasive, and might make you look like someone else. And unless the jowl fat is specifically removed, as opposed to just stretched upwards, the jowl will come back.

5) Lipodissolve. These are fat-cell-killing injections. I've performed these for many years, and they work, but they often cause a few days of swelling bruising and pain. 

6) HIFU. Non-invasive, reasonably comfortable to have done, minor brief swelling but much less than the alternatives, bruises rare, easy recovery.

HIFU wins.

HIFU is often advertised as a treatment for general facelift.

I'm not sure this is actually what happens.

But I think HIFU certainly *kills fat cells under the chin*, and when we look at before/after photos taken in profile it is this reduction in submental (="under chin") fat that gives the impression there's been a general face lift.

Nasolabial *fold* fat can be reduced by HIFU, as can subcutaneous fat elsewhere. Talk to us about what you need.

Focussing our HIFU transducers to a depth of 1.5mm means we are depositing our HIFU energy into the deep dermis. Good published evidence confirms skin firming with HIFU focussed at this depth