If you’ve been searching online for ways to firm and tighten a saggy face, you’ve likely seen an assortment of at-home skincare “remedies.” Even though a daily skincare routine is important for maintaining healthy and youthful-looking skin, tightening saggy skin often requires professional intervention to achieve your desired results.
The most effective approach to skin tightening depends on how much your skin sags and your cosmetic goals. Someone with moderate jowls, for example, won’t see much change with do-it-yourself home treatments.
If you’re pulling back the skin on your face while looking in the mirror, consider the following options to get the results you want.
1. Professional-grade skincare products
Not all products are created equally. The quality ingredients in professional-grade products can improve early signs of skin laxity. These include:
- InterFuse® Treatment Cream from skin better science® includes a blend of messenger peptides that nourish 5 types of collagen.
- Growth Factor Serum from ZO® Skin Health is a lightweight gel that minimizes expression lines and wrinkles.
2. Laser skin resurfacing
If collagen and elastin are the building blocks of firmer skin, and our bodies produce less of these proteins as we age, the solution is stimulating the body to increase their production. That’s how laser skin tightening—and virtually all energy-based skin treatments—work. We use a fractional CO2 laser for smoothing and resurfacing the skin. Laser pulses create pinpoint injuries to the skin’s surface, leaving most of the skin undamaged. These controlled injuries trigger the growth of healthy skin cells and collagen production.
3. Fat Transfer
Using a patient’s own fat to restore volume to the face is a technique I often perform in conjunction with other procedures. Even though the primary purpose of facial fat transfer is to fill in areas such as sunken cheeks or undereye hollows, the fat itself includes regenerative cells that rejuvenate and repair skin cells and help tighten skin. You can read more about facial fat transfer and how long it lasts in our related blog post.
4. Facelift Surgery
For people with moderate to severe sagging along the jawline and neck, there is no substitute for a facelift to achieve dramatic, long-lasting rejuvenation. My signature Reflection Lift embodies my philosophy of customizing a procedure to address each patient’s unique needs. I often combine a facelift with laser skin treatments, fat transfer, and other facial plastic surgery procedures, such as eyelid surgery, to create results that exceed a patient’s expectations.
Questions?
Learn more about your skin tightening options and which path is right for you by requesting a consultation at Youthful Reflections. I take whatever time is needed to assess your facial anatomy and learn about your goals and concerns in order to recommend the best procedures to achieve your goals. You can also call us at (615) 942-8016 to schedule an appointment.
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Start With Our Expert's Guide
"An Expert's Guide to Facelift Surgery" provides essential information for anyone thinking about getting a facelift. Double board-certified facial plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Boggess is considered Nashville's facelift expert after performing thousands of facial rejuvenation procedures with consistently remarkable results.
The Expert's Guide explains:
- How to choose a surgeon you can trust
- What to do before your facelift
- Why a Reflection Lift is more than a facelift
- When you'll be ready for a big social event
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