You have many options when it comes to skin rejuvenation, but when you have significant sagging, wrinkling, and creasing, an ablative laser treatment is about the most effective solution next to a surgical facelift.
Like facelifts, ablative lasers require a long recovery period: weeks of redness, oozing, and flaking, and months of red or pink skin.
You may also worry about the side effects of ablative lasers, including the risk for post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. You want a gentler, easier treatment that’s just as effective as a laser at resurfacing and rejuvenating your skin.
At our Sirens Medspa — the aesthetics division of the Rheumatology Center of New Jersey in Somerville, New Jersey — we listen to your needs and find the best solutions. That’s why we offer a groundbreaking noninvasive ablative treatment: the Opus® Fractional Plasma® radiofrequency (RF) device from Alma™.
How can the Opus tighten skin without surgery or downtime? Here are the bullet points.
You may know plasma as the liquid component of your blood. But plasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter, specifically:
Although only rarely encountered on Earth, plasma makes up 99% of visible matter in the universe, including our sun and the rest of the stars. Plasma is the result of another state of matter — usually a gas — becoming highly ionized.
Any of the noble gases — including nitrogen and helium — can generate plasma energy. What makes plasma energy so important to skin resurfacing is that it can contract the tissue without vaporizing or charring the surface of your skin.
The Opus device uses RF energy to ionize the air between its tip and your epidermis. This turns the top layer of your skin tissue into a gas, without it ever having to go through a liquid stage.
This ionization process prevents your surrounding tissue from being damaged by heat, as would happen with a laser.
The Opus comes with three different handpieces that allow us to treat a variety of issues with several passes over your skin during just one treatment. Choices include:
The fractional plasma glide tip can completely ablate the surface of your skin in just 10-15 minutes.
The focus tip delivers targeted thermal coagulation to precise areas.
This high-frequency RF device features a 0.7 mm tip that lets us target hard-to-reach areas.
By combining handpieces in a single session, we can improve:
The Opus tightens your face overall, so your skin looks and is thicker, fresher, and more elastic. It can also tighten and lift problem areas, such as turkey neck and sagging jowls.
Some patients find that they achieve their goals after just one treatment session. Others may opt for one or two follow-ups.
Both lasers and the Opus create controlled wounds in the skin that stimulate your body to launch its repair mode, rebuilding collagen matrixes and filling them with elastin and other youth-giving substances.
But since the Opus works without creating thermal damage, you don’t have the long recovery time that comes with ablative lasers.
A traditional ablative laser burns your skin. You even look like you have a sunburn. Your skin looks raw and red. It may even ooze and blister. After about a week, your skin dries and begins to peel.
It takes months to recover, and you must be careful with how you treat your skin. It can take up to a year for the pinkness to disappear. With the Opus, though, your recovery time is reduced by 50%.
Even better, you get the same results as you would have gotten with the harsher laser treatment.
Would you like the benefits of an ablative skin resurfacing and rejuvenation without the downtime and long recovery? To book an appointment at our Sirens MedSpa, call us for an Opus Fractional Plasma treatment today.
