Incisionless Mini Facelift The Woodlands

The doctor uses hypodermic needles preloaded with absorbable sutures for this innovative facelift. An Incisionless Mini Facelift The Woodlands, a “lunchtime facelift,” requires no cutting and leaves no visible scars as it heals.

PDO Surgical Sutures are absorbable

• Polydioxanone (PDO) synthetic, absorbable sutures were first developed for cardiothoracic surgery, such as open-heart surgery. PDO is one of the safest materials to be implanted in the body.
• Your skin fully absorbs it within four to six months and won’t leave you with any scar tissue.

How does the incisionless mini facelift work?

1. Controlled Healing

• In medical terms, “Selective Inflammatory Response” is the principle behind a lot of aesthetic procedures (such as Fractional Laser, Chemical Peels & MicroNeedling). Our skin is very good at repairing itself, and by inserting PDO threads we make it ’heal’ itself by creating new collagen, naturally!
• Your skin gently reacts to the inserted threads. PDO is fully absorbable, but that doesn’t mean your skin won‘t react to it. During the 4 to 6 months that your body fully absorbs the PDO suture, your skin repairs itself around the suture.
• The incisionless mini facelift controls healing underneath the skin!

2. Mesh or Lift:
There are two types of procedures with PDO Threads:

• The doctor uses smooth threads to create a mesh under the skin (i.e. two sutures inserted vertically and three sutures horizontally), like a #hashtag, or a net. This mesh will serve as the foundation for your new collagen production. This technique tightens the skin naturally from within. Results appear naturally, without any drastic change!
• The doctor uses barbed threads to produce a more dramatic and immediate result. The PDO sutures’ barbs provide a grip underneath the skin. Sutures are inserted the same way, except they can be pulled in 1 or 2 directions, creating an instant skin repositioning. Just as with smooth threads, the skin will build new collagen that will secure the lift!

Best Procedure for Neck & Jawline

PDO Threads especially effectively treat the neck and jawline. The lower third of the face is challenging to treat effectively with botulinum toxin or injectable fillers, which are most effective in the upper and middle third of the face, respectively.

Restoring the V-Shape

A beautiful and healthy face has a “V-shape.” With the aging of tissues and the action of gravity, this “V-shape” diminishes or inverts.

The Nu-Mesh and Nu-Lift techniques may create scaffolding to support the tissues and keep them in the “V-shape”. Where necessary, the doctor can delicately lift the tissues and reposition the skin to recreate the “V-shape.”

(1) Courtesy of Dr. Ross Allen Glosmonn
(2) Courtesy of Dr. Kian Karimi