Episode 11: Change How Your Face Ages Forever - Part 2

Foreign welcome to part two. I'll change how your face can age forever. To talk. I gave in Sundance. Today we're going to pick up the minimally invasive component. And so minimally invasive to me is we're doing things outside in now and we're discussing techniques like microneedling. Microneedling has been around for a very, very long period of time. The energy based microneedling is what I want to speak about. Microneedling itself pops a small hole depending on the diameter of the needle itself into the skin. This stimulates the healing response. You build more collagen, the skin improves. That's the basic premise of it here. We're going to use energy. There's different types of energy based microneedling. There's monopolar and there's bipolar. I use bipolar microneedling. The platform is in mode. The dev originally started out as Fractura. In 2018 they brought to market Morpheus 8 microneedling and combine that with facetite to create a procedure called the Brace rf which I can go into later. But I've enjoyed using microneedling on a number of levels to help provide a treatment that's external to internal for skin. You can change the depth of say Morpheus 8 and use it all over the body. And they have even a device now that will go up to 8 millimeters. But traditional Morpheus 8 microneedling is 1 to 4 millimeters. You can definitely use topical anesthetic for this treatment in conjunction with prenox like we do in our office. You could do a add local anesthesia to the face, do more aggressive treatments. It really depends on the treatment plan you've developed for each patient. And once again I've used it in all my cases all over the body. Prior to the pandemic had a series of treatments called smart procedures. So we would use the smart tummy procedure to help reduce the lower abdominal thickness via liposculpture and then use body tight and Morpheus eight microneedling upper tops to get really exceptional results. Encourage anybody to look at those on our website. Dr. Robert whitfield.com smart procedures to look at before and after is that are pretty life altering in the in the cases that we show without any visible scarring like you would get in a tummy tuck. And so you know, when I think of microneedling, its role it's really to help build collagen in the skin. We combine it with products that help stimulate more collagen synthesis and elastin synthesis as well. We'll say 1 to 4 millimeters with Morpheus 8 and their body product is 1 to 8 millimeters. When we want to do deeper tissue tightening, you heard me mention briefly embrace RF that incorporates using Facetight. So there's three technology that you can use that go beneath the skin. They're varying sizes. The depth of the tissue really is based on the size of the device and where your treatments are. I've done accutite all over the face. I've done face tight on the jawline and neckline and body tight. I've used on arms, abdomens, links, thighs. It's a almost a small, medium and larger tool to use based on the body part you're trying to treat or the area you're trying to treat. But once again, this is a, you know, 1 to 2 centimeter tightening device and you're trying to think of how the tissues, the skin you see tightens down to the muscles beneath. And there's a series of connections called the fibroceptal connections. And these really help bring our tissues back down when we tighten them with these devices. Once again, it's all bipolar. Radio frequency bipolar has been around for a very, very long time. I've used it in the operating room for decades, so it's not a new technology at all. The way it's incorporated to protect the skin, there's skin sensors. I'm sorry, there's temperature sensors in each of the tips of the devices and these allow the skin to be protected both externally and internally from too much heat. I really like any system that has that much safety built into it.

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Now as we get more aggressive with minimally invasive treatments, there's a new concept called microcoring that was device was FDA approved in Q1 of 2022. I obtained it in Q3 of 22 and followed it for many, many, many years prior to the pandemic. It was a little delayed because of pandemic, but it's out now and just moving along. Based on what discussed about microneedling, we're now going to use a Hollo microneedle. It has a 0.5 millimeter diameter that'll become important later. And it creates a pattern much like you would see on a laser pattern. Think of like a centimeter, one little square centimeter and it will remove a percentage of tissue using these 0.5 millimeter microneedles in that pattern. And so by doing a simple math equation, if you just add up the number of tissue cores removed, you'll see how much you can remove over the face and neck. And we use the round number 26,000 cores and you're removing, you know, over an inch of skin when you do that. So that's a very powerful tool. It's all done under local in the office. So now we have non invasive, minimally invasive from a superficial standpoint, we have minimally invasive deeper tissue and we have microcolorine now. But then, you know, to make the rest of the, the facial aging. If you want to think of facial aging as profiles and trying to get a sharp jawline, then we have to address the neck. The neck has always been a little challenging to do in a minimally invasive way because there's components. And remember we talked about earlier, the skin, the fat, the muscle, not so much bony components in the neck that contribute to problems. But the muscular component is the platysmal bands. And they're big fan shaped muscles, if you will, underneath the neck. And when you can grimace, you'll see the bands in your neck. They also affect our profile. There's a minimally invasive call option called my elevate. I affectionately call it the zoom lift. And that can be done through small openings out of the line of sight and creates a tightening of the glandular tissue, the neck tissue, and you can also divide the edge of those muscular bands and really clean up the jawline. So I encourage anybody to go to our site and look at Zoom Lift results. And those are really powerful tools that be done in the office. Once again, other local so now we've addressed the neck. The whole point of my, you know, seven years of work in the in the non invasive and the minimally invasive space, and, you know, adding hyperbaric to our office, and adding stem cell therapy to our office, and adding software to our office. The real big idea is to eliminate the visible scarring that we see from face and neck lifting, the downtime associated with traditional face and neck lifting. And that is why I created my no Cut facelift. So the next time, we'll dig deep into my no Cut facelift.