Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

No-Scar Facelift: FDA Approved Skin Removal Explained #shorts

27 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, Dr. Robert Whitfield and a co‑speaker introduce the NoCut (also called No‑Scar) facelift, a procedure that received FDA approval in the first quarter of 2022. The technique uses thousands of tiny hollow needles to core out microscopic plugs of skin across the face, neck, and other relatively flat body surfaces. By extracting about 26,000 cores that cover roughly 7‑8 % of the treated area, the method removes approximately 1–1.5 square inches of skin, resulting in tighter tissue once it heals. The speakers compare it to microneedling—rather than merely stimulating growth, the needles also suction out skin, leading to a “no‑scar” outcome. They note that the neck is more complex due to its three‑dimensional shape and the Adam’s apple, requiring head positioning. Immediate post‑procedure appearance may look uneven for a week or two, but the skin tightens as it heals, offering a scar‑free resurfacing option.

It was super exciting when this finally got through and FDA approved in Q1 of '22, because now you can take skin out with no scarring.
For the NoCut Facelift, what you're doing is you're using tiny hollow needles to suck out little cores of skin, and you do it all over the face. So it's very much the same effect as microneedling, but instead of just poking the skin to make it grow, you're poking the skin and sucking out a tiny almost like a blackhead's worth of skin, a tiny little sliver. But if you do it all over the face, yeah, you're going to not look so great for the first week or two, which is common in a lot of the facial resculpting things. But what it does then is instead of the skin just healing like it would from microneedling, it's tighter when it heals, right?
It's just doing math. So unless you think the world's flat, it'll work. So if we take out 26,000 cores at 7 to 8%, typically we're going to remove between 1 and 1.5 inches. Square inches of skin.
And you can do this all the way down to the neck?
You can do it on the body, and especially all over, um, surfaces that are more flat. The, the neck is probably the most complex due to its three-dimensional character. So the Adam's apple's in the way, and I have to turn your head, if you remember, a certain direction to help get it taken care of. But it was super exciting when this finally got through and FDA approved in Q1 of '22, because now you can take skin out with no scarring.