How is Face Lifting Possible without Surgery?

Collagen serves as the skin’s support network. It’s responsible for the suppleness of the skin. In reality, collagen protein accounts for 30 percent of total protein in the body and 70 percent of protein in our skin. Collagen, however, degrades with age, leading to sagging skin and wrinkles.

Different treatments, like HIFU in Singapore, are indicated to increase collagen formation, slow down aging of skin, and diminish evidence of wrinkles to slow down the process of aging.

What Factors Contribute To Wrinkles?

Wrinkles form on the skin as a result of slow skin cell synthesis, thinner skin layers, and a shortage of collagen proteins.

Collagen is a protein found in the body that provides structure to your skin. It gives elasticity or stretchiness, allowing you to move freely. The skin is like a rubber band. When a rubber band is stretched or moved too much, it gets loose and becomes unable to snap back to its original size and form. The capacity of the body’s cells to make proteins declines as you age, which makes it harder for the rubber band to snap back into form, resulting in creases.

Aging

Wrinkles are a natural part of the process of aging. Skin cells divide slower as individuals age, and the dermis, the skin’s middle layer, starts to weaken. The dermis is made up of a network of collagen and elastin fibers that provide elasticity and support. As the network unravels and loosens over time, depressions appear on the surface of the skin. Aging skin is also less able to retain moisture, secretes less oil, and heals more slowly. All of these elements lead to the formation of wrinkles.

Facial Movements

Small muscle movements on the face cause lines on the forehead, frown lines or in the middle of the brows, and crow’s feet or around your eyes. Squinting, smiling, frowning, and other common facial expressions exacerbate wrinkles. These motions, combined with gravity, cause wrinkles to form over time.

Sunlight Exposure

Prolonged exposure to UV or ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun may induce photoaging, or skin aging at a faster pace. UV rays trigger the degradation of collagens and the formation of abnormal elastin. When UV rays damage skin tissue, the body produces metalloproteinase, an enzyme. The enzyme generates and repairs collagen. However, some healthy collagen fibers are destroyed throughout the process, leading to solar elastosis or fiber synthesis disorder. When the regeneration cycle continues, wrinkles occur as the procedure becomes less successful each time.

Smoking

Skin that is healthy is constantly regenerating itself. Old collagen breaks down and is cleared from the body, allowing room for new collagen to form. Smoking, according to researchers, lowers the production of new collagen. Lines form as a result of a reduction in collagen.

Treatments for Wrinkles

Ultherapy

Ultherapy is a popular skin care procedure that uses an FDA-approved non-surgical procedure to lift the skin around your neck, behind the chin, and on your brow. Ultherapy minimizes the appearance of wrinkles and lines on the decolletage, giving you a younger look from your brow to the breast!

HIFU

To address deeper and superficial skin layers, such as the SMAS or Superficial Muscular Aponeurotic System, HIFU in Singapore employs a Triple Layer Lifting effect. Warming and activating present collagen fibers causes them to grow and offer long-term lifting and tightening.

Laser 4D Fotona

The Fotona 4D Laser is a non-surgical laser treatment that uses laser wavelengths and 4 different settings to conduct cosmetic procedures like skin volumization (wrinkle removal), skin tightening, acne, scarring, and spider veins. For optimum and long-lasting collagen reconstruction, the Fotona 4D Laser accesses the deeper and medial layer of the skin as well as the surface connective tissues.

Thermage

Wrinkle treatment with Thermage is an aesthetic procedure that evens lines, minimizes wrinkles, and remodifies collagen for overall skin quality.