There’s always a new treatment that will get you closer to looking ageless and glowing, the way the likes of Halle Berry and Rekha do. Radiofrequency has long been established as both an effective and safe energy tool used in skin rejuvenation procedures, with outcomes rivalling those that you attain by using other energy-based aesthetic approaches. The new IntraGen radiofrequency device is the new innovation that promises a luminous look.
Featuring fourth-generation frequency technology, the IntraGen device is effective for numerous rejuvenation indications such as skin lifting and tightening, nasolabial folds, improving tone and texture, sculpting chin lines, as well as improvement of pores and acne.
In India, the device is recently being used to treat fine wrinkles, loose skin and pores in the facial region. What is great is that your skin gets immediately rejuvenated when this is used, without any pain or downtime. This process is a comfortable treatment option for those who want to prevent vertical sagging of facial skin as well for those who do not want to go for surgical options. As a non-ablative technology using an electric current for skin rejuvenation, the radiofrequency causes focal thermal damage to the dermis, resulting in dermal remodelling and subsequent neo-collagenesis and neo-elastogenesis over time following the wound healing process.
The new device works with a brand new grid radiofrequency energy that targets the upper skin layer. The sophisticated treatment tip creates a thermal grid zone from the epidermis to the upper dermis, emitting frequency energy in a fractional pattern. The grid-like film and pulse mode selecting system help to protect the epidermis during treatment, thereby preventing any procedural damage.
This method is in stark contrast to other radiofrequency systems in which the energy is directed below the skin’s surface, heating the entire target region down to the deep dermis while protecting the epidermis via a cooling technology. These systems have problems, including a very high cost and severe pains from the heat to the deep dermis, resulting in a very limited number of areas where they can be performed.
The host of fractional microneedle radiofrequency devices available in clinics deliver energy to the skin, resulting in a heating of the deep dermis. Although the downtime associated with these treatments is short, the immediate effect of fractional radiofrequency has a tendency to be insufficient, perhaps due to low needle density, that makes it imperative that only small zones of your body are corrected at a time.
Patients are very satisfied with the new IntraGen device as it achieves immediate tightening and overall rejuvenating effects in the targeted tissues, without erythema, pain or several days of downtime.
The writer is a consultant cosmetic surgeon.
