I have been answering phone calls for more than 10 years. There are some who call who have already decided what treatment they want and merely want a price. They ask for a procedure by name. Ironically those are the stupidest. Seriously unless you are a doctor in this particular industry with at least 15 year experience treating thousands of people each year, how would you know which technology is going to get the best results for someone with combination of varying amounts of loose skin, fat plus or minus some cellulite or stretch marks ? We all lose collagen every day of our life, so if you are over 30 years old you probably have some loose skin, or maybe just want to prevent the signs of aging. Sorry I digress could not resist.

So this is for those who are starting out. I get a lot of phone calls from people who have no clue what all these strange names and technologies are all about, Thermage, Exilis, Ultherapy, Ultrashape, Velashape, Coolsculpting, Emsculpt, Emtone, Emsculpt. I could list 100 more, but you get the idea. This all began in 2002. Thermage was the first radiofrequency device approved by the FDA in 2002 to tighten skin and treat wrinkles and since that time over 2 million treatments have been performed. So for you newbies Let me explain this with an analogy we can all relate to. Most of us have some idea that lasers have been around for a long time. You can “burn” off sun spots and other superficial blemishes. What is different here is radio frequency. We are all also familiar with a microwave oven. ( PS the doctor hates when I make this analogy) But learning is usually best accomplished by analogies. You know how your microwave can heat the middle of a chicken without browning the skin ? Well thats the beauty of radio frequency. if you tried to use a laser to reduce even a very fine wrinkle you would burn the skin before you approached the depth to which you would need to get to improve the wrinkle. So what Thermage did was have that radio frequency in a hand held wand so the technician could go over your face ( and body) and “hit” the collagen for an immediate tightening and subsequently because of the stimulation of the collagen you grow more collagen over the next 6 months. Think how elegant. Instead of losing collagen every day you are growing more collagen. Hello Gwyneth Paltrow, we have your secret.